Alice Springs mayor Matt Paterson wants an audit of all youth social service providers in Alice Springs to find out if these organisations’ work helps reduce crime in the town.
Locations for new youth residential facilities identified, Youth Justice Review panel established
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.
Flickerfest festival NT schedule announced
The Flickerfest short film festival is returning to the Northern Territory from this month with Australian, international and short films.
No disciplinary action against TRG officers until investigation completed as racist award certificates released
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 males charged in connection to last week’s fatal crash involving stolen ute in Alice Springs
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.
Man pulled from wheelchair in home invasion: police
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.
New VET training program in remote community to get ‘students on pathway to work’: Lawler
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.
Violent home invasion of elderly couple in Alice Springs leads to four arrests, one possibly outstanding
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.
Man killed in rollover of stolen ute in Alice Springs
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.
Lack of ‘code black’ data for Alice Springs Hospital sign of incompetence: Opposition
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.
ASIC orders Urban Rampage to stop using government credit scheme
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.
TRG’s ‘Noogada award’ certificates had Aboriginal flag on them, refuting members’ claims of no racism, coronial hears
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.