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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern finalise plans for a trans-Tasman "travel bubble". Australia will permit the entry of travellers from New Zealand into New South Wales and the Northern Territory if they have stayed in New Zealand for at least two weeks effective October 16. New Zealand, however, has not reciprocated any lifting of travel restrictions for Australian travellers.
2020-10-2

The Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park's board votes unanimously to ban climbing on Uluru, sacred to the Anangu people, in Australia's Northern Territory, from October 2019, due to Indigenous concerns over respect for the sacred site and for the safety of tourists.
2017-11-1

Residents living on the east coast of the Northern Territory prepare for the second tropical cyclone to hit the area in a month as Tropical Cyclone Nathan is likely to make landfall tomorrow morning.
2015-03-21

Severe Tropical Cyclone Nathan makes landfall on Cape York Peninsula in far North Queensland as a category 4 (Australian system).
2015-03-20

Residents of Goulburn Island off the coast of the Northern Territory are evacuated ahead of Cyclone Lam.
2015-02-19

Tropical Cyclone Lam intensifies to Category 3 as it moves towards the Northern Territory's Arnhem Land.
2015-02-18

A fourth inquest begins into the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in outback Australia in the Northern Territory.
2012-02-24

Floods caused by Tropical Cyclone Grant cause the derailment of a train near the town of Katherine in Australia's Northern Territory.
2011-12-27

A piece of stone axe found at the Gabarnmung rock art gallery on the lands of the Jawoyn people in Australia's Northern Territory is dated at 35,500 years old making the oldest of its type in the world.
2010-11-4

Indonesian detainees continue to riot at the Northern Immigration Detention Facility.
2010-08-30