Australian bishop urges new Northern Territory leaders to leave no one behind

Bishop Charles Gauci of Darwin – the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory – says he hopes the new leadership by the conservative Country Liberal Party (CLP) “will work towards a future that benefits everyone.”

The CLP won 16 of the 23 seats in the territory, while the previously ruling Labor was reduced to 4 seats. This was a reversal of fortune for the conservative party, which had won only two seats in 2016.

The Northern Territory is the only part of the continental nation that is not a state...