Northern Territory

The Northern Territory’s child protection crisis is deepening amid revelations that a six-week-old baby was this week flown to Darwin with ‘suspicious’ head injuries.

An Australian comedian has been stood down from his football club and received widespread backlash after he posted a ‘sickening’ TikTok video, making fun of Kumanjayi Little Baby’s disappearance.

Child welfare workers have been suspended over their handling of Kumanjayi Little Baby’s case before the five-year-old’s death, as the minister reveals she was initially told there was ‘nothing to see here’.

NT Children’s Commissioner won’t investigate what authorities knew about Kumanjayi Little Baby before her death as questions mount and the girl’s accused killer Jefferson Lewis faces court for the first time.

The man accused of murdering a five-year-old girl in Alice Springs will remain behind bars after being excused from attending his first court appearance this morning.

A former NT children’s commissioner says a number of urgent questions about Kumanjayi Little Baby’s death must be answered now.

A 47-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of a five-year-old girl, while police have released footage of looters swarming a service station in Alice Springs.

Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy said it was not the time for a discussion about town camps. But if not now, when?

From a desperate search to violent unrest, how the death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby has exposed deeper failures.

Police have revealed details of the ‘sustained’ bashing handed out to accused child killer Jefferson Lewis after he was found at an Alice Springs town camp last night before his arrest.

A riot has erupted outside the Alice Springs hospital where the man accused of murdering five-year-old girl Kumanjayi Little Baby was taken after he was arrested.

A body believed to be that of a missing five-year-old has been found in Central Australia, with the girl's mum issuing a heartbreaking message to her daughter.

Detectives have seized a number of items from a crime scene linked to the disappearance of five-year-old Sharon Granites, as police warn that anyone helping her abductor will also face criminal charges. 

Police allege a man was seen holding hands with a five-year-old girl just hours before she vanished from a home in Alice Springs.

Police have urged people to take care around outback swimming holes after a woman drowned at a popular tourist spot.