Cydonee Mardon seems to be riding on Matt’s big green croc, trying to paint him as some innocent Aussie battler who is being picked on by the cops.

Every day is another “news” article on Newscorpse (not going to link to that shit) about how he never received special treatment (contrary to what guards on his block have stated) and how the police have done nothing to charge anyone who caused the crash.

Zero mention of his active efforts to prevent the investigation from progressing. Zero talk of intimidation tactics from him and his hired goons. Zero talk of open litigation against him and his company about WH&S matters.

Instead we see pictures of he and his misses crying and how tough it’s been on them. And of course they close the comment section so people outside of the NT can’t see the truth that locals will put in there. Way to be a journalist Cydonee (that name honestly pisses me off)

I figured this was the best place to ask this. I can't connect the accounts because the system auto-fills 0810 as 810. I assume it just sees the 0 as a useless number maybe? Then it proceeds to give me an error for the postcode, since it doesn't exist. I couldn't type it in manually either. Any advice? I was on their helpline for 4 minutes before the voice recording told me to fuck off lol.

Perhaps someone more in the know could shed some more light on this? It just seems so shortsighted.

NIT article https://nit.com.au/15-07-2026/25388/closure-of-darwin-aboriginal-shelter-sparks-homelessness-fears

NT News article text:

Yilli Rreung Housing Aboriginal Corporation to close YiSSA in 90 days, leaving 390 adults and children with ‘nowhere to go’

Aboriginal housing experts have condemned the NT government for giving a homeless shelter just 90 days to find a safe place for up to 400 vulnerable people, including young children. Read the latest here.

Hundreds of vulnerable Territory families have been plunged into limbo after a major Aboriginal organisation was forced to close its homelessness shelter within 90 days.

On Tuesday, Yilli Rreung Housing Aboriginal Corporation said the NT Government had given the service 90 days to vacate its short-stay accommodation at Batten Road in Marrara.

In an internal email seen by the NT News YRHAC chair Regina Bennett said it was “very concerning news” leaving more than 390 current tenants without secure accommodation.

Ms Bennett said currently there were 230 adults and 160 children, largely from remote communities, staying at the homelessness shelter.

“Since Yilli has managed this accommodation, this is the first time that everything is running smoothly, programs have been implemented to support the families, and three meals a day is provided,” she said.

Ms Bennett said the decision would impact 25 staff, with families “told to vacate with nowhere to go at this stage” .

“This is going to affect all our services in Darwin in that the crisis that will follow is going to be devastating for our vulnerable families,” she said.

“This is going to put extra strain on service providers who are already at capacity.”

The Yilli Short-Stay Accommodation (YiSSA) centre is also home to a Mission Australia long term accommodation service for domestic violence survivors, with Ms Bennett saying they would also lose staff and have their tenants impacted.

“We all need to come together and support each other through this crisis for our vulnerable families.”

Ms Bennett said Yilli was in the process of notifying relevant senators and ministers “to make them aware of the terrible situation”.

On Wednesday, Children and Families Minister Robin Cahill said a transition plan was in place for when the homeless service’s lease expired in October.

Ms Cahill said she had been in negotiations with the owners of the infrastructure at the facility for several months.

“We offered a fair market price in an effort to be able to continue to function at that site,” she said.

“Let’s just say that their response was far from fair and far from conducive to a good, smart economic decision, so we will have to transition those people out.

“We’re not reducing services;, it will simply be a realigning of services to other areas.”

Ms Cahill was directly asked where the 390 vulnerable Territorians would be accommodated from October, but was unable to provide a specific location.

“There’s a transition plan currently being undertaken.”

But Aboriginal Housing NT chief executive Leeanne Caton said there was no clarity around what this transition plan looked like, with the NT Government yet again failing to consult with the Aboriginal Community Controlled organisation sector.

“It’s the worst I have ever seen in the Northern Territory,” Ms Carton said.

“In years gone by there was Aboriginal People Organisation NT Principals, where government consulted before they actually signed on the bottom line — there’s none of that anymore — It’s a dictatorship.”

Standing with the entire Aboriginal Housing board, Ms Caton said they were all “horrified” and “outraged” at the decision which will put vulnerable people and children at risk.

As the former chief executive of Yilli, Ms Caton said the five-year lease contract with the owners of the 300 room ex-mine site facility expired on June 30.

“We’re two weeks into the new financial year — this information should have been provided months and months ago,” she said.

Ms Caton said Yilli was established in 2021 as a safe place for grandmothers, mums and their children to stay in Darwin following the remote community lockdowns under Covid, with the service continuing to provide rooms for thousands of remote Territorians as they attended medical, legal or other appointments in the city.

“It has been jam packed for years. They turn away lots of people every single day because they don’t have the capacity,” she said.

Ms Caton worried about the safety of the nearly 500 people expected to be pushed out into already overcrowded homes, onto the streets, and potentially into the justice system and child protection systems.

“Are these 150-200 children that are going to be displaced from YiSSA going to go straight into the system, because the government now deems them homeless?”

Ms Caton acknowledged that due to the lack of alternative bail and domestic violence shelters, Departments had used YiSSA to “throw everyone in there” — which had caused issues in the past.

However she said the alcohol and drug free YiSSA service had been used “scapegoat” for issues in Karama, a suburb with the highest proportion of public housing in Australia.

NT Shelter chief executive Annie Taylor said the impacts of YiSSAs closure would be felt across Darwin’s homelessness system, public spaces and neighbourhoods.

Ms Taylor said with the private rental market only having a 0.1 per cent vacancy rate, there was simply “nowhere for people to go”.

“In a housing crisis, three months is simply not enough time to transition hundreds of vulnerable Territorians into appropriate accommodation and support,” she said.

Ms Taylor called on the NT Government to pause the proposed closure, extend the transition period and work with Yilli and Mission Australia for a long-term solution.

NT Opposition leader Selena Uibo said the decision would leave Territorians who relied on the Batten Rd centre without a “clear plan”.

“These are families travelling in from remote communities for medical treatment and to access other essential services who will now be left without accommodation when they come to Darwin,” Ms Uibo said.

“Robyn Cahill’s priorities are completely backwards; her first responsibility should be making sure vulnerable Territorians have somewhere safe to stay, not closing the accommodation they rely on with no alternative in place.”

“The CLP need to put this closure on hold and keep Yilli operating until every Territorian and family impacted has a safe place to live and the support they need.”

Alright, my partner's birthday is coming up and she loves oysters. Our plan was to head to the Jetty Restaurant for all you can eat Oysters, but they're temporarily closed... Seafood on Cullen has lost the quality that it used to bring... Where else does all you can eat Oysters?

TIA

The judge says that he needs to send a message to discouraged others from getting involved in the illegal tobacco trade and then let's him off.

Gday all,

Me and a few mates are planning to do a canoe trip in Katherine Gorge. We are keen for a bit of a challenge and want to portage canoes so we can get up to #9 and back. I've read that you also have to portage to gorge #2 as canoeists aren't allowed in the first.

Anyway, we wanted to do 2 nights/3 days in the gorge, but it looks like Nitmiluk (tour operator) only offer 1 night/2 day hires. So, we are thinking of buying a few canoes and organising the trip ourselves.

Keen to hear if anyone else has done this and has any advice! Are there any other outfitters that we could rent canoes from rather than buying them in Darwin or Katherine?

Cheers, legends.

Taken from NSW Health:

• There are two main forms – respiratory (lungs/airway) and cutaneous (skin).
• Median incubation period from exposure to onset of symptoms is 1.4 days. The range is generally 2 to 5 days but may be longer, with duration up to 10 days reported.
• People can be long-term carriers of diphtheria without showing symptoms.
• Treat the infectious period as starting: 7 days prior to onset of respiratory symptoms OR 7 days prior to positive nose/throat swab (if asymptomatic) OR on the date that skin infection begins.

Respiratory:

• The case fatality rate of classic respiratory diphtheria is 5-10%, even with appropriate treatment.
• Onset of respiratory diphtheria is often gradual, with symptoms of fever, sore throat and weakness.
• Trouble swallowing, headache and altered voice occur in fewer than half of patients. Significant neck swelling (“bull neck") and difficulty breathing occur in <10% of patients and are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Isolated spots of grey or white gunk appear on the back of the throat, which extend and coalesce over 24 hours to form a nugget/growth of gunk. It progressively thickens, becomes tightly stuck to the underlying tissue, and darkens in colour.
• Dislodging the nugget, mechanically or as the disease progresses, may cause profuse bleeding, asphyxiation and death.
• Myocarditis and polyneuropathy are the prominent toxic manifestations.
• Cardiac effects usually begin about one week after onset of illness and may include abnormal or irregular heartbeat, conduction disturbances and dilated cardiomyopathy (marked by chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath or fainting).
• Neuropathy typically begins weeks to months after onset of diphtheria in 20%–25% of untreated cases and is the cause of 15% of deaths. Neuropathy can present as cranial nerve paresis, respiratory and abdominal muscle weakness, quadriparesis or quadriplegia, peripheral sensory disturbances, and a variety of autonomic disturbances.

Cutaneous:

• Cutaneous diphtheria usually appears on exposed limbs, particularly the legs and presents either as secondary infection of existing skin sores or primary punched out ulcers with well-demarcated edges and a cover of bluish-grey necrotic slough or membrane.
• Transmission from sores/ulcers can cause respiratory disease, both in the person with the sores/ulcers and other people who come into contact with the sores/ulcers.
• Due to prolonged bacterial shedding, cutaneous diphtheria plays an important role in transmission to susceptible persons, via contact with the wound or contaminated materials (bandages, bedding, clothing etc).

Infection can occur in vaccinated as well as unvaccinated people. Lifelong immunity is generally (but not always) acquired following disease or subclinical infection. Vaccination reduces the frequency and severity of disease and provides prolonged, but not lifelong, immunity. Post-vaccination antibody levels wane by 0.6% per year since vaccination. Immunity is antibody modulated and primarily against the toxin rather than the bacteria; therefore, vaccinated persons can still harbour the organism.

Hi there,

I'm Karlo, an academic from UniMelb looking for volunteers to participate in a 5-minute study on financial-decision-making. Your responses will represent Australia in a global study across 70+ countries - so help us make sure Territorians are heard and that this national dataset isn't just dominated by people on the east coast.

The study is 100% anonymous, has full university ethics approval, and is open to all adults that are both Aussie citizens and residents. If you have any questions fire away and I'll reply in the comments. Cheers!

https://www.soscisurvey.de/tricc-project/?q=AUS

Hi All.
I’m involved in the Banks football club (AFL).
We are looking for a women’s head premier league coach. If anyone has experience and is interested I’d love to chat. Happy to give out my personal details to anyone genuinely interested. It’ll be a paid role. Can provide more details.

Cheers.

Ya'll know 'em, those delicious doughy pockets of saucy molten lava you'd get from the school canteen back in the day. I've currently got a mad craving for them.

Yes, I know McCain's Pizza Pockets exist but they are terrible now. :/

Moving up for work in a week's time and securing accommodation is IMPOSSIBLE, can't apply for most rentals without viewing in person first, FB pages are just full of scammers. I'm sure it's probably like this in a few places in Aus currently but dang it's bleak

I’ve just heard roughly 5 bangs coming from the city loud enough to wake me up at 3 am surely someone else has heard it

Hey guys, my partner and I are hosting a pretty massive engagement party at our place in a few weeks and we need to sort out our drink situation.

We are going to need at least 30 to 40 matching wine glasses and crystal tumblers for the night. I don't want to use trashy plastic cups, but I also really don't want to pay $20 a glass at Myer. I noticed that Victoria's Basement has some really cheap sets of Italian crystal glassware on markdown online. Has anyone bought glass sets from them before? Are they decent quality for entertaining or should I look somewhere else?

Hi. Looking at where to buy Italian biscotti. NOT Greek biscota.

Thanks!

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Just sharing this experience with Jacana.

Since November, Jacana had been charging me around $240 per month based on estimated bills, and my solar feed-in tariff not being applied. I contacted them multiple times for 5 months , but instead of fixing the issue, I was given bill extensions and still couldn't get an accurate account.

In April, I switched to Rimfire Energy, and the difference has been huge. My monthly bills are now around $40–$50, and my solar feed-in tariff is finally being credited properly.

If you're dealing with the same issues, it might be worth looking at your options. Companies only improve when customers hold them accountable, and sometimes the most effective way to do that is by switching providers.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with estimated billing or missing solar credits?

Have any of you done the tabletop walk in Litchfield in the last couple of weeks?
Curious if there's still alot of water around, what the camp sites are like atm.
Cheers

Hello! I have a medical student placement at Royal Darwin Hospital in September for a duration of one month and I have looked pretty much everywhere (facebook groups of staff health, homesits, facebook marketplace) and have not received a single positive response , in fact, no response most of the time most likely due to the short duration of my stay.

I had eventually decided to book a room in CDU village or Unilodge but that too disappeared on the same day I tried to book them. I know the studio apartment is still available at CDU but it costs about $735+/week which is out of my budget.

I have tried to look at other hostels like backpackers or MOM Darwin but they seem very unsafe and not the right option for a person who has to go to hospital daily.
Hotels and airbnb are way above my range for a one month period.

I have already been told by the hospital that accomodation is the student’s own responsibility.

I am stuck in a really bad position. If anyone has any knowledge about alternate options (though I know all are exhausted) or any hope that rooms in Unilodge and CDU villages do become available from time to time.

Please help AND Sorry for the big rant.

Hey! Have had a change of plan, so I'm selling 2x Syd-Darwin direct flights on July 14th for 250 each (they are now 450+). One way. Lmk if you're keen!

I recommend exploring our local national park at this time of year.

It was challenging to do this hike as my first multi day hike, but it was a good experience and I'd do (parts) of it again.

Namely any parts on the southern part of the track where there's plenty of water.