Labor NT Senator Malarndirri McCarthy will be sworn in today as the Indigenous Australians Minister following a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday, that will also see Member for Solomon Luke Gosling appointed as “special envoy” for Defence, Veterans’ Affairs and Northern Australia.
An eight-year-old child and his mother had a machete held to their throats in an Alice Springs home invasion last weekend, while a 75-year-old woman woke up to find three men in her bedroom, one armed with a machete, with the details of the crimes suppressed by the NT Police, sources have told the NT Independent.
Three males broke into a house in Alice Springs with unspecified weapons around midnight, and stole a car after confronting the owner, NT Police said.
Three males armed with an ‘edged weapon’ broke into an Alice Springs house at night, and confronted the occupant, before stealing from them, NT Police said.
UPDATED: The three-day curfew for Alice Springs will not be extended, Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has determined, despite a massive street fight involving 100 people armed with weapons in the troubled town on Wednesday afternoon and a man making threats to a group in the CBD overnight, with the government now pledging to return visitors to their homes.
The streets of Alice Springs that had grown quiet following a 72-hour “public disorder declaration” erupted in violence on Wednesday afternoon, as dozens of people fought in the CBD with weapons, including machetes and spears, before police were able to restore order.
Two bars have been shut for the next two days during the “public disorder declaration” in Alice Springs due to “riotous conduct” by patrons, while a local business had three vehicles stolen during the first night of the latest curfew, which political leaders say is not a proper solution to the town’s underlying problems.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has ordered a three-day curfew for Alice Springs following days of serious incidents in the troubled town, that saw four off-duty police officers bashed and robbed over the weekend and another officer run over by a car outside a bottle shop late last week.
Deputy Chief Minister Chansey Paech’s big spending on travel continued in the past financial year, racking up nearly a third of all ministerial travel across the NT himself, records show, including claiming “offical allowance” expenses under “other” costs, which has raised further questions about how the government is acquitting ministerial travel.
A 15-year-old boy has been charged for allegedly committing an indecent act on a child between the ages of 12 and 16, NT Police said.
The iconic Alice Springs Henley-on-Todd Regatta has been cancelled this year by organisers following problems filing for grants and securing a manager for the volunteer-run event.
A man has been charged with rape, depravation of liberty, aggravated assault, and strangulation, along with other offences over an alleged domestic violences attack, NT Police said.
