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Alice Springs News

Established 1994.

Based in Alice Springs, Central Australia.

One of Australia’s oldest online newspapers, online since 1997.

Searchable archive going back to 1998.

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WA brothers first and second in the Finke. Bike crown goes to NSW.

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News
Motorsport
West Australian brothers Travis and Beau Robinson starred in the Tatts Finke Desert Race. Travis claimed his first car King of the Desert crown after finishing with the fastest overall time.

Earlier articles

Death in custody: Care could not be provided in home town

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News
Community
Kumanjayi White, who died in custody in Alice Springs this week, had his own house in Yuendumu but in recent times his family and the community had found it impossible to make satisfactory arrangements for his care. Ned Jampjinpa Hargraves, a respected elder who in a statement on Thursday called White “my jaja” (grandson), said this in an exclusive interview with the Alice Springs News.

Police look behind violent crimes

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News
Community
Local police intelligence personnel track known regional grievances, according to a spokesman, replying to questions from the Alice Springs News whether initiatives are in place to prevent criminal payback after alleged events such as last Thursday’s in Gregory Terrace ... “As part of preparedness and prevention, Alice Springs police to ensure possible flare ups are managed, for example court appearances or community source information."

New superheroes hit the screen

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News
Arts
Wati Mai brings starving people food, feeds homeless people, gives them magic water. Spider Girl Kungka helps kids stay safe. Comes out at night. Throws webs. Scares kids to go home and makes them go to sleep ready for school ... "The ultimate power of the Superheroes is the voice of the children who created them."

Albanese’s $250m for Alice “heading the wrong way”

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News
Community
A prominent Aboriginal spokesman gave an account of a chaotic and meaningless process deciding how Prime Minister Albanese’s $250m Alice Springs “rescue package” is being spent. The money, allocated two years ago, was “drastically needed” according to Graeme Smith, at the time the CEO of the local native title organisation Lhere Artepe.

Voting in Alice: Caning for CLP, small growth for Greens

Erwin Chlanda, Alice Springs News
Federal politics
Labor’s Marion Scrymgour extended her margin in all but one of the seven Alice Springs booths during the landslide Federal election on Saturday. The sitting Member for the massive seat of Lingiari, more or less all of the Territory except Darwin and Palmerston, in the town council polling place got almost 10 per cent more votes than three years ago, and achieved a 7.96 per cent margin in Gillen.
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The  Alice Springs News  is in its 29th year of publication, and with the closure of the Murdoch Centralian Advocate in 2020 we are the only local newspaper in Central Australia.

We are redesigning our editorial focus from daily and brief reports to long form journalism focussing on background, analysis and investigation of our region’s major issues. For this we are assembling a team of writers, some long-term contributors, some new.

Our seven million word online archive goes back to 1998, is fully searchable and available 24/7.
Copies of earlier print editions are available in libraries.

Readers are continuing to send us comments or information for publication (see the right-hand column on our front page).
We are a platform for civilised and fearless debate.

Our previous peak circulation was 22,000 individual readers a month making 90,000 page views.
We’ve published some 26,000 readers’ comments since 2011.

We are one of Australia’s oldest online newspapers.  

We founded the  News  as a print edition in 1994 as the largest circulation independent newspaper in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Editor Erwin Chlanda and Chief Reporter Kieran Finnane have together 70 years of reporting from and in Central Australia for local, national and international media in television and newspapers.

We strictly comply with the  Journalistic Code of Ethics.

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The publication manager is  Media Choice, Alice Springs, Australia.

THE  ALICE SPRINGS NEWS  IS ALICE SPRINGS OWNED AND OPERATED.

Phone our news office at   0418 890040  or email  erwin@alicespringsnews.com.au
Snail mail: PO Box 1613 Alice Springs NT 0871.

Editor:  Erwin Chlanda

Our “patch” is an area of a million square kilometres; 30% of the population is Aboriginal.
Like all our followers they read us on their mobile phones and tablets or other devices.

We also have a significant readership interstate and overseas.

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