Chief Minister Eva Lawler says new legislation to legalise curfews needed to be rushed through Parliament before the August election because it cannot be left “to chance” with a possible new government coming in, while Attorney General Chansey Paech claims he was only ever opposed to permanent curfews, not temporary ones.
Police are looking for two females who they did not describe, who assaulted a woman at a service station, leaving her in hospital.
The Territory Labor Government has failed to effectively implement federal Closing the Gap measures aimed at addressing Aboriginal disadvantage, and cannot explain how decisions are made, what the costs are, if targets are being met, or how many Aboriginal organisations have been awarded taxpayer cash to provide outcomes for Indigenous Territorians, a damning Auditor General’s audit has revealed.
An Alice Springs supermarket was ram raided, causing a significant amount of damage to the building, NT Police said.
Four teenage boys were arrested after allegedly breaking into an Alice Springs home by smashing a window but three were not charged and will be dealt with under the Youth Justice Act, NT Police said.
Two people were assaulted in the yard of their Alice Springs property by a large group of people, NT Police said, an attack which happened in the same short industrial street as an aggravated burglary of a business the night before.
A man was arrested at the Alice Springs Hospital for allegedly assaulting his partner, leaving her wandering the streets at night with cuts to her face and head, NT Police said.
Police are looking for an unspecified number of alleged offenders who stole two compound bows and arrows along with a hunting knife from a home in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
Two men have been charged over an aggravated burglary of an Alice Springs business over the weekend, NT Police said.
A man was arrested in Alice Springs for allegedly stealing a car in NSW and stealing fuel in Tennant Creek, NT Police said.
A 13-year-old boy who became separated from his classmates during a school camping trip near Ellery Creek Big Hole in the West MacDonnell ranges was found safe and well after a night spent in plunging temperatures, NT Police said.
Licensing Inspectors are being used side-by-side with police officers to monitor people buying alcohol in bottle shops in Alice Springs, after the removal of some police axillary liquor inspectors from the town, an NT Police press release with no spokesperson’s name on it has retrospectively announced.
