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Anti-vaccination pamphlets dropped in letterboxes of Darwin northern suburbs - NT News

NORTHERN suburbs residents have been targeted by anti-vaccine campaigners, with pamphlets dropped in letterboxes­.

The pamphlets, which feature questions including “is the HPV vaccine causing infertility” and “do vaccines cause autism” have been slammed by medical professionals.

Australian Medical Association NT president Robert Parker said the pamphlets were dangerous as they were factually incorrect.

“Vaccines have had a massive effect on improving children’s health,” he said.

“100 years ago we had diphtheria and measles. People forget these things existed because now we have vaccines for them.”

Dr Parker said he uses one particular story to try to convince nonbelievers to vaccinate their children. “The story I tell is of a woman who refuses to give her child the rubella vaccine,” he said.

“20 years on, that child gets pregnant, and while pregnant she gets a rubella infection....


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Anti-vaccination pamphlets dropped in letterboxes of Darwin northern suburbs - NT News

NORTHERN suburbs residents have been targeted by anti-vaccine campaigners, with pamphlets dropped in letterboxes­.

The pamphlets, which feature questions including “is the HPV vaccine causing infertility” and “do vaccines cause autism” have been slammed by medical professionals.

Australian Medical Association NT president Robert Parker said the pamphlets were dangerous as they were factually incorrect.

“Vaccines have had a massive effect on improving children’s health,” he said.

“100 years ago we had diphtheria and measles. People forget these things existed because now we have vaccines for them.”

Dr Parker said he uses one particular story to try to convince nonbelievers to vaccinate their children. “The story I tell is of a woman who refuses to give her child the rubella vaccine,” he said.

“20 years on, that child gets pregnant, and while pregnant she gets a rubella infection....


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Anti-vaccination pamphlets dropped in letterboxes of Darwin northern suburbs - NT News

NORTHERN suburbs residents have been targeted by anti-vaccine campaigners, with pamphlets dropped in letterboxes­.

The pamphlets, which feature questions including “is the HPV vaccine causing infertility” and “do vaccines cause autism” have been slammed by medical professionals.

Australian Medical Association NT president Robert Parker said the pamphlets were dangerous as they were factually incorrect.

“Vaccines have had a massive effect on improving children’s health,” he said.

“100 years ago we had diphtheria and measles. People forget these things existed because now we have vaccines for them.”

Dr Parker said he uses one particular story to try to convince nonbelievers to vaccinate their children. “The story I tell is of a woman who refuses to give her child the rubella vaccine,” he said.

“20 years on, that child gets pregnant, and while pregnant she gets a rubella infection....


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Toxic chemicals in Darwin seafood - Sky News Australia

Elevated levels of toxic chemicals have been found in seafood in Darwin waterways contaminated by old fire-fighting foams used at a nearby military base.

Pollutants from the Northern Territory air force base have leeched into Rapid and Ludmilla creeks, which the Defence Department says aren't safe for swimming.

NT government test results released in July revealed fish and crustaceans from the two creeks are safe to eat up to three times per week.

At a community meeting on Wednesday night, Defence's Steven Grzeskowiak said initial findings were in line with that.

He assured residents who live in the investigation area that their bore water is safe to drink.

But home-grown produce on these properties could potentially pose a health risk because of poisonous PFAS, or poly-fluoroalkyl, concentrations in soil.

This week Katherine...


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Toxic chemicals in Darwin seafood - Sky News Australia

Elevated levels of toxic chemicals have been found in seafood in Darwin waterways contaminated by old fire-fighting foams used at a nearby military base.

Pollutants from the Northern Territory air force base have leeched into Rapid and Ludmilla creeks, which the Defence Department says aren't safe for swimming.

NT government test results released in July revealed fish and crustaceans from the two creeks are safe to eat up to three times per week.

At a community meeting on Wednesday night, Defence's Steven Grzeskowiak said initial findings were in line with that.

He assured residents who live in the investigation area that their bore water is safe to drink.

But home-grown produce on these properties could potentially pose a health risk because of poisonous PFAS, or poly-fluoroalkyl, concentrations in soil.

This week Katherine...


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Toxic chemicals in Darwin seafood - Sky News Australia

Elevated levels of toxic chemicals have been found in seafood in Darwin waterways contaminated by old fire-fighting foams used at a nearby military base.

Pollutants from the Northern Territory air force base have leeched into Rapid and Ludmilla creeks, which the Defence Department says aren't safe for swimming.

NT government test results released in July revealed fish and crustaceans from the two creeks are safe to eat up to three times per week.

At a community meeting on Wednesday night, Defence's Steven Grzeskowiak said initial findings were in line with that.

He assured residents who live in the investigation area that their bore water is safe to drink.

But home-grown produce on these properties could potentially pose a health risk because of poisonous PFAS, or poly-fluoroalkyl, concentrations in soil.

This week Katherine...


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Report finds plane 'disappeared from radar' before crash in Darwin ... - NT News

A PRELIMINARY investigation into a plane crash that killed two men in the Darwin rural area has found the aircraft twice “disappeared from the radar” before slamming to the ground.

Pilots Daniel Burrill, 33, and Darcy McCarter, 23, were both fatally injured when the single-engine Cessna crashed near Gunn Point Rd in Howard Springs while en route to Elcho Island on October 24.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s preliminary report into the crash, released on Thursday, found the plane first disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar display shortly after climbing above 10,000 ft just after 1.30pm.

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“While at 10,100 ft and a recorded groundspeed of 100 knots, the aircraft’s altitude disappeared from the radar display,” it reads.

“The controllers immediately assessed the absence of this line as abnormal.”

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Report finds plane 'disappeared from radar' before crash in Darwin ... - NT News

A PRELIMINARY investigation into a plane crash that killed two men in the Darwin rural area has found the aircraft twice “disappeared from the radar” before slamming to the ground.

Pilots Daniel Burrill, 33, and Darcy McCarter, 23, were both fatally injured when the single-engine Cessna crashed near Gunn Point Rd in Howard Springs while en route to Elcho Island on October 24.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s preliminary report into the crash, released on Thursday, found the plane first disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar display shortly after climbing above 10,000 ft just after 1.30pm.

• DON’T MISS THIS AMAZING NT NEWS GOOGLE HOME OFFER

“While at 10,100 ft and a recorded groundspeed of 100 knots, the aircraft’s altitude disappeared from the radar display,” it reads.

“The controllers immediately assessed the absence of this line as abnormal.”

About 10 seconds...


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Final gig for the Entertainment Centre bring Darwin Music deluge - NT News

THE Darwin Entertainment Centre is going out with a bang.

Before it closes its doors for five months of renovations, the Studio Theatre will play host to an inundation of NT music legends for the Deluge gig this weekend.

Featuring up and coming surf rock group Mary Handsome, swampy top-enders Double Dinghy and the often satirical musings of Horse Trank – there is something for everyone at this final hurrah for the year.

It will be an intergenerational affair as Horse Trank musician Stu Kellaway, also a member of iconic group Yothu Yindi, shares the same stage and his son Roy Kellaway, who plays in Mary Handsome.

Roy, who is now Brisbane-based but who was born and raised in Arnhem Land, said that the group has been trying get an opportunity to play in Darwin for a couple of years now.

“We’re keen as to get up there,” he said. “I can’t wait to soak in that Territory sun.”

He said his...


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Final gig for the Entertainment Centre bring Darwin Music deluge - NT News

THE Darwin Entertainment Centre is going out with a bang.

Before it closes its doors for five months of renovations, the Studio Theatre will play host to an inundation of NT music legends for the Deluge gig this weekend.

Featuring up and coming surf rock group Mary Handsome, swampy top-enders Double Dinghy and the often satirical musings of Horse Trank – there is something for everyone at this final hurrah for the year.

It will be an intergenerational affair as Horse Trank musician Stu Kellaway, also a member of iconic group Yothu Yindi, shares the same stage and his son Roy Kellaway, who plays in Mary Handsome.

Roy, who is now Brisbane-based but who was born and raised in Arnhem Land, said that the group has been trying get an opportunity to play in Darwin for a couple of years now.

“We’re keen as to get up there,” he said. “I can’t wait to soak in that Territory sun.”

He said his...


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Toxic chemicals in Darwin seafood - Sky News Australia

Elevated levels of toxic chemicals have been found in seafood in Darwin waterways contaminated by old fire-fighting foams used at a nearby military base.

Pollutants from the Northern Territory air force base have leeched into Rapid and Ludmilla creeks, which the Defence Department says aren't safe for swimming.

NT government test results released in July revealed fish and crustaceans from the two creeks are safe to eat up to three times per week.

At a community meeting on Wednesday night, Defence's Steven Grzeskowiak said initial findings were in line with that.

He assured residents who live in the investigation area that their bore water is safe to drink.

But home-grown produce on these properties could potentially pose a health risk because of poisonous PFAS, or poly-fluoroalkyl, concentrations in soil.

This week Katherine...


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Toxic chemicals in Darwin seafood - Sky News Australia

Elevated levels of toxic chemicals have been found in seafood in Darwin waterways contaminated by old fire-fighting foams used at a nearby military base.

Pollutants from the Northern Territory air force base have leeched into Rapid and Ludmilla creeks, which the Defence Department says aren't safe for swimming.

NT government test results released in July revealed fish and crustaceans from the two creeks are safe to eat up to three times per week.

At a community meeting on Wednesday night, Defence's Steven Grzeskowiak said initial findings were in line with that.

He assured residents who live in the investigation area that their bore water is safe to drink.

But home-grown produce on these properties could potentially pose a health risk because of poisonous PFAS, or poly-fluoroalkyl, concentrations in soil.

This week Katherine...


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Toxic chemicals in Darwin seafood - Sky News Australia

Elevated levels of toxic chemicals have been found in seafood in Darwin waterways contaminated by old fire-fighting foams used at a nearby military base.

Pollutants from the Northern Territory air force base have leeched into Rapid and Ludmilla creeks, which the Defence Department says aren't safe for swimming.

NT government test results released in July revealed fish and crustaceans from the two creeks are safe to eat up to three times per week.

At a community meeting on Wednesday night, Defence's Steven Grzeskowiak said initial findings were in line with that.

He assured residents who live in the investigation area that their bore water is safe to drink.

But home-grown produce on these properties could potentially pose a health risk because of poisonous PFAS, or poly-fluoroalkyl, concentrations in soil.

This week Katherine...


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Report finds plane 'disappeared from radar' before crash in Darwin ... - NT News

A PRELIMINARY investigation into a plane crash that killed two men in the Darwin rural area has found the aircraft twice “disappeared from the radar” before slamming to the ground.

Pilots Daniel Burrill, 33, and Darcy McCarter, 23, were both fatally injured when the single-engine Cessna crashed near Gunn Point Rd in Howard Springs while en route to Elcho Island on October 24.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s preliminary report into the crash, released on Thursday, found the plane first disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar display shortly after climbing above 10,000 ft just after 1.30pm.

• DON’T MISS THIS AMAZING NT NEWS GOOGLE HOME OFFER

“While at 10,100 ft and a recorded groundspeed of 100 knots, the aircraft’s altitude disappeared from the radar display,” it reads.

“The controllers immediately assessed the absence of this line as abnormal.”

About 10 seconds...


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Report finds plane 'disappeared from radar' before crash in Darwin ... - NT News

A PRELIMINARY investigation into a plane crash that killed two men in the Darwin rural area has found the aircraft twice “disappeared from the radar” before slamming to the ground.

Pilots Daniel Burrill, 33, and Darcy McCarter, 23, were both fatally injured when the single-engine Cessna crashed near Gunn Point Rd in Howard Springs while en route to Elcho Island on October 24.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s preliminary report into the crash, released on Thursday, found the plane first disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar display shortly after climbing above 10,000 ft just after 1.30pm.

• DON’T MISS THIS AMAZING NT NEWS GOOGLE HOME OFFER

“While at 10,100 ft and a recorded groundspeed of 100 knots, the aircraft’s altitude disappeared from the radar display,” it reads.

“The controllers immediately assessed the absence of this line as abnormal.”

About 10 seconds...


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Report finds plane 'disappeared from radar' before crash in Darwin ... - NT News

A PRELIMINARY investigation into a plane crash that killed two men in the Darwin rural area has found the aircraft twice “disappeared from the radar” before slamming to the ground.

Pilots Daniel Burrill, 33, and Darcy McCarter, 23, were both fatally injured when the single-engine Cessna crashed near Gunn Point Rd in Howard Springs while en route to Elcho Island on October 24.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s preliminary report into the crash, released on Thursday, found the plane first disappeared from air traffic controllers’ radar display shortly after climbing above 10,000 ft just after 1.30pm.

• DON’T MISS THIS AMAZING NT NEWS GOOGLE HOME OFFER

“While at 10,100 ft and a recorded groundspeed of 100 knots, the aircraft’s altitude disappeared from the radar display,” it reads.

“The controllers immediately assessed the absence of this line as abnormal.”

About 10 seconds...


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NT Tourism Minister Lauren Moss heading to China and Singapore to secure direct flights to Darwin - NT News

Tourism Minister Lauren Moss is leading a high-powered mission to China and Singapore at the end of the week as important direct flights take a step closer to becoming reality.

Ms Moss has stared down calls by independent Member for Araluen Robyn Lambley for her to be sacked and says she won’t let political opportunism distract her from getting on with the job of turning Top End tourism around.

Ms Moss said her meetings in Guangzhou China will be important to securing direct China flights to Darwin.

With her on the trip will be the head of the Tourism NT Board, Michael Bridge, and the chief executive of the Business Department Michael Tennant. Ms Moss confirmed yesterday that Mr Tennant would be the acting head of her Tourism Department when current chief executive Alastair Shields departs on December 16.

• RELATED: LAMBLEY CALLS FOR MOSS SACKING

It was Mr Shields’ departure that...


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NT Tourism Minister Lauren Moss heading to China and Singapore to secure direct flights to Darwin - NT News

Tourism Minister Lauren Moss is leading a high-powered mission to China and Singapore at the end of the week as important direct flights take a step closer to becoming reality.

Ms Moss has stared down calls by independent Member for Araluen Robyn Lambley for her to be sacked and says she won’t let political opportunism distract her from getting on with the job of turning Top End tourism around.

Ms Moss said her meetings in Guangzhou China will be important to securing direct China flights to Darwin.

With her on the trip will be the head of the Tourism NT Board, Michael Bridge, and the chief executive of the Business Department Michael Tennant. Ms Moss confirmed yesterday that Mr Tennant would be the acting head of her Tourism Department when current chief executive Alastair Shields departs on December 16.

• RELATED: LAMBLEY CALLS FOR MOSS SACKING

It was Mr Shields’ departure that...


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NT Tourism Minister Lauren Moss heading to China and Singapore to secure direct flights to Darwin - NT News

Tourism Minister Lauren Moss is leading a high-powered mission to China and Singapore at the end of the week as important direct flights take a step closer to becoming reality.

Ms Moss has stared down calls by independent Member for Araluen Robyn Lambley for her to be sacked and says she won’t let political opportunism distract her from getting on with the job of turning Top End tourism around.

Ms Moss said her meetings in Guangzhou China will be important to securing direct China flights to Darwin.

With her on the trip will be the head of the Tourism NT Board, Michael Bridge, and the chief executive of the Business Department Michael Tennant. Ms Moss confirmed yesterday that Mr Tennant would be the acting head of her Tourism Department when current chief executive Alastair Shields departs on December 16.

• RELATED: LAMBLEY CALLS FOR MOSS SACKING

It was Mr Shields’ departure that...


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Final gig for the Entertainment Centre bring Darwin Music deluge - NT News

THE Darwin Entertainment Centre is going out with a bang.

Before it closes its doors for five months of renovations, the Studio Theatre will play host to an inundation of NT music legends for the Deluge gig this weekend.

Featuring up and coming surf rock group Mary Handsome, swampy top-enders Double Dinghy and the often satirical musings of Horse Trank – there is something for everyone at this final hurrah for the year.

It will be an intergenerational affair as Horse Trank musician Stu Kellaway, also a member of iconic group Yothu Yindi, shares the same stage and his son Roy Kellaway, who plays in Mary Handsome.

Roy, who is now Brisbane-based but who was born and raised in Arnhem Land, said that the group has been trying get an opportunity to play in Darwin for a couple of years now.

“We’re keen as to get up there,” he said. “I can’t wait to soak in that Territory sun.”

He said his...


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