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Can Canberra’s Migration Plans Work for Territorians?
Population growth is not a moral imperative. It is a logistical challenge. And when policies are made without listening to the people who live under them, the result is not harmony, it’s hostility.

Sam Wilks
Apr 285 min read
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Growing the Territory, Is Federal Immigration Policy Straining NT Infrastructure?
Immigration is not inherently harmful. But when used to mask economic stagnation or prop up GDP figures while ignoring infrastructure, it becomes a liability. Federal policymakers must stop treating Darwin as a checkbox on a diversity spreadsheet and start treating it as a capital with finite capacity.

Sam Wilks
Apr 276 min read
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Economic Policies for a Resilient NT
There is nothing moral about destroying incentives to work, invest, or create value.

Sam Wilks
Apr 263 min read
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Can Canberra Help Restore Safety in NT Communities?
The idea that Federal legislation can override local judicial leniency is not without precedent. The Northern Territory is not a state. It is a legislative child of Canberra, and Canberra has acted before, during the Intervention, with alcohol bans, and through court-mandated reforms to sentencing.

Sam Wilks
Apr 266 min read
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Modern Solutions Rooted in Timeless Ideas
Reform doesn’t require reinvention. It requires the courage to apply timeless truths in modern ways.

Sam Wilks
Apr 253 min read
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Will Federal Policies Tackle Rising NT Crime Rates or Just Fund More Excuses?
Crime in the NT is not a mystery, it is the consequence of policies that reward excuses, punish self-defence, and defer to unelected legal elites.

Sam Wilks
Apr 256 min read
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Community First
National governments should provide guardrails, not handcuffs.

Sam Wilks
Apr 243 min read
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Healthy Territory, Healthy Future, Maybe not
Statistically, iatrogenesis is a silent epidemic. A recent meta-analysis found medical error to be the third leading cause of death in developed nations.

Sam Wilks
Apr 246 min read
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A Blueprint for Change
This is not a call for perfection. It is a call for courage, the courage to speak plainly, act decisively, and govern with the people, not above them. If the Territory is to rise, it will be led not by those who pander, but by those who perform.

Sam Wilks
Apr 243 min read
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Restoring Trust in the NT
To rebuild trust, decisions must be justified in real time, with evidence, logic, and accountability.

Sam Wilks
Apr 233 min read
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Waiting for help in the Outback
What the NT needs is accountability, local autonomy, and a market-based system where results, not intentions, are rewarded.

Sam Wilks
Apr 237 min read
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Practical Ideals
The lesson is clear. When people are paid to fail, they will. When they are rewarded for effort, they rise.

Sam Wilks
Apr 233 min read
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Justice in Action
The first step toward real reform is to remove the perverse incentives that reward failure.

Sam Wilks
Apr 223 min read
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Dreaming of a Home in the Territory
Until politicians stop treating housing as a platform for ideology or pity, the dream of owning a home in the Territory will remain just that, a dream.

Sam Wilks
Apr 226 min read
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Empowering the Voter
The road forward isn’t paved with slogans. It’s paved with consequences.

Sam Wilks
Apr 213 min read
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Why Territorians Are Locked Out of Affordable Homes
The housing crisis in the NT isn’t just numbers, it’s lives.

Sam Wilks
Apr 215 min read
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Civic Renewal
The Northern Territory does not need another review. It needs a reckoning, with the ideas, policies, and people that have led it astray.

Sam Wilks
Apr 213 min read
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From Tradition to Transformation
If the NT is to rise above this ideological fog, it must rediscover the principles that built stable societies long before bureaucrats tried to reinvent them.

Sam Wilks
Apr 203 min read
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From Darwin to the Desert, Can Canberra Deliver Real Cost-of-Living Relief for Territorians?
True relief demands a blend of immediate aid and long-term investment.

Sam Wilks
Apr 205 min read
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Skyrocketing Prices in the Top End and the Federal Policy Impacts on NT Cost of Living
Federal relief measures, whether tax cuts or rebates, must navigate the NT’s unique geography and demographics.

Sam Wilks
Apr 194 min read
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