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Northern Territory

Northern Territory
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About Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is an Australian internal 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 Northern Territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and various other islands of the Indonesian archipelago.

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The Northern Territory News — if you do subscribe, you will have doubtless been delighted by the 2013 headline, "Why I Stuck a Cracker Up My Clacker", which was a first-person account by a man who put a firework up his bottom. It won its writer a Walkley, which I gather is the highest award in Australian journalism.

from No Such Thing As The Jam Of Entertainment, 2024-12-19 at 00:22:57 · read transcript

Other times Northern Territory came up

  1. That's all I need. Or unless we start creating new ones, because there's, for instance, a new language in Australia, which is called Light Wallperi. It was related to Wallperi, but it's just been identified as a new language. It's in this really isolated village of 700 people in the Northern Territory. Is it light as in like Marlborough light? I think it is sort of like that. Slightly less bad for your health.

    No Such Thing As A Submarine Shepherd, 2017-03-03 · listen

  2. There are rules in Australia that mean that the food service is under no obligation to label whether or not it is a local or imported fish. People don't know the better. They're being misled. So this is a big problem, according to the head of the Northern Territory seafood council, who's called Rob Fish. Brilliant. Are we going to do a full 15 minutes of these?

    No Such Thing As Bob Dylan on Mars, 2025-01-16 · listen

  3. People do swear and not get fined. I know, but they're working on it. The Northern Territory is... Northern Territory was a place definitely we covered in the show that people have been fined a fair bit for swearing.

    Little Fish: The Body Of A Young Paul Newman, 2026-04-05 · listen

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