People travelled hundreds of kilometres by road from across the Northern Territory to put their opposition on the record for a听Senate inquiry into shale gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. Hannah Ekin reports.
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Jim McIlroy writes听the federal government is moving to extend the stigmatising cashless debit card, handing听responsibility听for vulnerable sectors to a private company.
More than 600 activists rallied here on April 22 to condemn Chief Minister Michael Gunner鈥檚 announcement that fracking would go ahead in the NT despite his election promise of a 5-year moratorium. 听
The Gunner Labor government was elected in 2016, partly on the promise to hold back on fracking which would open 51% of the NT to the controversial process of mining gas via hydraulic fracturing or 鈥渇racking鈥.