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The time for change is now Cases such as this most recent matter and also such as the man erroneously charged with the rape of a child in Tennant Creek are serious examples of broader issues. Unfortunately they may be but the tip of the iceberg. Innocent people are spending far too much time locked…

Members are notified that the Association’s 2020 Annual General Meeting will be at 5:30 pm on Friday 13 November 2020, at Murray Chambers, 3 Whitfield Street, Darwin.

CLANT congratulates Selena Uibo MLA on her historic appointment as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. Ms Uibo is the first Indigenous person to hold this key position, and CLANT looks forward to working with her.

CLANT mourns the passing of our much loved Lyn Wild, Honorary Life Member. For almost 30 years, Lyn was the principal organiser, promoter, administrator, trouble shooter and much-loved mum of the Bali conference. It is hard to imagine our CLANT conference without Lyn’s welcoming smile, patient guidance and indefatigable direction. In 2015 Lyn was made…

CLANT laments the passing of the Northern Territory’s first Indigenous Minister, the Hon. John Ah Kit.  Twenty years ago, Jack, ever the stirrer, delivered this truly stirring speech, the HC (Nugget) Coombs North Australia Lecture, YOU KNOW WHY: Compulsory Jailing and Racism.  Tragically, the issues and challenges Jack raised are as cogent and current today as…

CLANT welcomes the appointment of Northern Territory Solicitor-General Sonia Brownhill SC to the Supreme Court.   As arguably the blokiest region in our blokey nation, the Northern Territory has a remarkably feminised legal system.  This appointment will make us the only Australian jusrisidiction with a gender-balanced superior court bench.  Moreover, the Attorney-General and Minister for…

In this statement, CLANT president Marty Aust argues that to mitigate the hardship and injustice caused by COVID-19 delays in finalising cases, judge alone trials should be established in the NT; and to mitigate the hardship and risk caused by COVID-19 in prison, measures should be taken the facilitate the early release of prisoners.  

Last week, CLANT President Marty Aust published an Opinion piece in the Sunday Territorian commencing with the words “We cannot afford a ‘Law and Order’ or ‘Tough on Crime’ election”. Today, the NT Leader of the Opposition published a statement expressing her outrage at recent youth offending, and “crazy measures like removing breach of bail…

CLANT is delighted to announce that the Hon Margaret White AO, who, together with Mick Gooda conducted the Royal Commission and Board of Inquiry into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, will deliver the sixth biennial Tony Fitzgerald Memorial Lecture at the Northern Territory Library, Parliament House, Darwin at 5.30 pm…