The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP),commonly known as the Country Liberals,is a centre-right political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In local politics it operates in a two-party system with the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It also contests federal elections as an affiliate of the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia,the two partners in the federal coalition.
The Northern Territory is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west,South Australia to the south,and Queensland to the east. To the north,the territory looks out to the Timor Sea,the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria,including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
Nova Maree Peris is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games,she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. She later switched sports to sprinting and went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympic Games. She was elected to the Australian Senate at the 2013 federal election,after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard named her as a "captain's pick",installing her as the preselected Labor candidate over incumbent Labor senator Trish Crossin. She retired from the Senate in 2016.
Marion Rose Scrymgour is an Australian politician and the current MP for Lingiari. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2012,representing the electorate of Arafura. She was the Labor Party Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from November 2007 until February 2009,and was the highest-ranked Indigenous Australian woman in government in Australia's history. She was also the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Northern Territory legislature.
The Northern Land Council (NLC) is a land council representing the Aboriginal peoples of the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia,with its head office in Darwin.
Crime in the Northern Territory is managed by the Northern Territory Police,the territory government's Department of the Attorney-General and Justice and Territory Families.
The Larrakia people are a group of Aboriginal Australian people in and around Darwin in the Northern Territory. The Larrakia,who refer to themselves as "Saltwater People",had a vibrant traditional society based on a close relationship with the sea and trade with neighbouring groups such as the Tiwi,Wadjiginy and Djerimanga. These groups shared ceremonies and songlines,and intermarried.
Robert James Randall,also known as Uncle Bob,was an Aboriginal Australian elder,singer and community leader. He was a member of the Stolen Generations and became an elder of the Yankunytjatjara people from Central Australia. He was the 1999 National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee NAIDOC Person of the Year. His 1970 song,"My Brown Skin Baby,They Take 'im Away," is described as an "anthem" for the Stolen Generations. He was known by the honorific "Tjilpi",a word meaning "old man" that is often translated as "uncle". He lived in Mutitjulu,the Aboriginal community at Uluru in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Malarndirri Barbara McCarthy is an Australian politician and former journalist who has been a Senator for the Northern Territory since 2016. She is an Assistant Minister in the Albanese Government,and previously served in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
George JiříChaloupka OAM,FAHA was an expert on Indigenous Australian rock art. He identified and documented thousands of rock art sites,and was a passionate advocate for Aboriginal Australian art,as longest continuing art tradition in the world. He is especially known for the much-debated assignation of a four-phase style sequence to rock art in Arnhem Land,and the term "Dynamic Figures",which he assigned to rock art described by him in Mirrar country of western Arnhem Land.
Larisa Antonia Lillian Lee is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly as the Country Liberal member for Arnhem at the 2012 territory election. She left the CLP on 4 April 2014,sat as independent until 27 April,when she joined the Palmer United Party,resigned from that party on 29 November,and sat as an independent until her defeat at the 2016 election.
Selena Jane Malijarri Uibo is an Australian politician. She is a Labor member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016,representing the electorate of Arnhem.
Ngaree Jane Ah Kit is an Australian politician,who was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly at the 2016 general election,representing the electoral division of Karama,Darwin,for the Labor Party.
Yingiya Mark Guyula is an Australian politician and a Yolŋu man of the Djambarrpuyŋu clan and the Liya-Dhälinymirr people. He is an independent member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for the seat of Mulka in north-east Arnhem Land. He previously represented Nhulunbuy from 2016 to 2020. He is the only independent Indigenous member of parliament in the Northern Territory and campaigned on a platform of self-determination for Yolŋu people.
Kathleen Mary Mills,also known as Mooradoop and Aunty Kathy,was an Australian community leader,singer,Aboriginal elder and activist. She had a large family,all musical,with several of her daughters being well known as the Mills Sisters.
Olga Havnen is an Aboriginal leader,advocate and activist in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Danila Dilba Health Service in Darwin,an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service.
Priscilla Collins is a prominent Aboriginal leader,advocate and television producer. Collins is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA),the largest law firm in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Banduk Mamburra Wananamba Marika,known after her death as Dr B Marika,was an artist,printmaker and environmental activist from Arnhem Land,Northern Territory,Australia,who was dedicated to the development,recognition and preservation of Indigenous Australian art and culture. She was the first Aboriginal person to serve on the National Gallery of Australia's board.
St. Mary's Hostel,formerly Mount Blatherskite Hostel (1946–47),commonly known simply as St Mary's,was an Australian Board of Missions hostel in Alice Springs from 1947 to 1972. Its residents were mostly Aboriginal children,including some who were taken as wards of the state because they were half-caste. In 1972,coming under new management,it was renamed St Mary's Children's Village (1972–1980).
