With just 246,000 people, the Northern Territory would have the smallest population of any state in Australia if the plan went ahead. NT already had a referendum in 1998 which failed to get enough ...

Thus there is no need to undertake the huge expense and disruption of changing the Australian flag should the Northern Territory become a state. Next month we celebrate the 114th birthday of our flag.

ROBERT Ingpen AM is the name of a man not many Territorians know, but his work is some of the most iconic in the land.

Best known for crocodiles, camels and colourful characters, Australia's Northern Territory (NT) could become the country's seventh state as early as July 2018.

Ministers of the new Northern Territory Government were sworn in on July 1, 1978. (Supplied: Northern Territory Library)However, while state laws are enshrined and protected by the constitution ...

Debate has raged for many years about whether the Northern Territory should become a state. Credit: David Kirkland The Territory, which has a population of 243,700, currently has two senators in ...