Sites for three of the four proposed residential youth justice facilities in Darwin, Tennant Creek, and Alice Springs have been selected, with a fourth facility being planned for the Katherine region, the Chief Minister said, while also announcing the people who will lead the government’s Youth Justice Review.
The Flickerfest short film festival is returning to the Northern Territory from this month with Australian, international and short films.
There will be no disciplinary action taken against senior police officers who gave evidence to the coroner denying the TRG’s Nooguda award was racist until an investigation into the matter is complete, Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has said, which followed the lifting of a suppression order on the publication of certificates handed out with the award, including one that had an Aboriginal flag backdrop.
Two 18-year-old males have been charged in connection to a fatal crash in a stolen vehicle that occurred on Railway Terrace, Alice Springs last week, which killed another 18-year-old male in an incident that saw multiple youths leave the teen to die with no assistance after the crash.
A woman who broke into an Alice Springs house and pulled the resident from his wheelchair while robbing him, is still on the run, NT Police said.
The first on-country Vocational Education Training “prototype” program in the NT will provide more VET courses for remote students to get them on a pathway to work, which will in turn reduce crime, the Chief Minister has said.
Four people have been arrested following a violent home invasion in Alice Springs where a group of men armed with knives allegedly held a knife to a 72-year-old woman’s throat while demanding cash, cigarettes and alcohol, NT Police said.
A young man has died after he was thrown from the stolen ute he was in, when it rolled over in the Alice Springs CBD overnight, NT Police said.
An armed man allegedly attempted to enter the Alice Springs Hospital over the weekend, forcing hospital workers to barricade themselves inside while waiting more than for 40 minutes for the police to arrive, exposing the NT Government’s lack of “code black” data in hospitals, the Opposition CLP says, and causing safety fears.
Urban Rampage has been ordered by the national corporate regulator to stop customers on welfare paying through a federal government credit scheme, with the agency saying the company targets welfare recipients living in remote Aboriginal communities, and more than 5,000 customers had signed up at the Alice Springs store alone.
The Territory Response Group’s so-called “Noogada awards”, which were handed out annually to members of the elite NT Police unit who exemplified the worst personal hygiene “or feral behaviour”, were written on paper with an Aboriginal flag in the background, the coronial inquest has heard, the day after TRG members swore in statements that the awards had nothing to do with race.
Former NT Police constable Zachary Rolfe defended his use of force when arresting Aboriginal people, as well as the language used in his text messages, while giving evidence at the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest on Tuesday, stating he was not concerned a judge called him a liar because that judge was known for making outrageous and racist comments.
