Under fire Labor Minister Chansey Peach used his parliamentary powers to shut down a censure motion against Chief Minister Eva Lawler brought by the CLP over her failure to hold him responsible for his actions, while senior federal Labor politicians have refused to voice support for Mr Paech.
Deputy Chief Minister Chansey Paech did not inform Cabinet of his shares in a liquor wholesale company while minister of Aboriginal Affairs when the lifting of grog bans in remote communities was discussed, the Chief Minister says, while federal and Territory political leaders have called for Mr Paech’s resignation for his “sickening” conduct.
EXCLUSIVE: Deputy Chief Minister Chansey Paech personally invested in a liquor wholesale company that supplies alcohol to Alice Springs bottle shops two months before his Labor Government controversially permitted Intervention-era grog bans on remote communities to lapse in 2022, the NT Independent can reveal.
A woman was treated in Alice Springs Hospital for head and chest injuries after being assaulted by another woman in the street, NT Police said.
A hybrid operating theatre will be added to Alice Springs Hospital and is expected to open in the first half of next year, Health Minister Selena Ubio said, an announcement which follows the release of data showing the hospital has a 148 day waiting time for non-urgent elective surgeries.
Offenders attached ratchet straps to a 4WD to rip the front doors off a roadhouse to steal alcohol, NT Police said.
A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of a minister granting a 40,000 megalitre water licence to Fortune Agribusiness for the remote Singleton Station, finding in part that the Territory Families Minister who made the decision in place of the Environment Minister, was able to give reasonable and rational consideration to the matter in the four days she took to make the decision.
EXCLUSIVE: The Mayor of Alice Springs was threatened with an axe outside his next door neighbour’s home on Christmas Eve, sources have told the NT Independent, in an incident which comes amid a fraught situation for the troubled town, where crime has become the focus of national media attention and federal intervention.
Some Indigenous people in Alice Springs have been forced to defend themselves in court because of a shortage of lawyers at legal aid services, the ABC has reported.
NT Corrections recruited 150 personnel last year with 50 newly graduated prison officers also coming on board last week, the Corrections Commissioner says, but the department is still struggling to get on top of record levels of inmates and the persistent problems of overcrowding and low staff retention rates.
Alice Springs businesses including a childcare centre went into a snap lockdown Friday after violent fighting erupted on the streets with weapons, which led to one man reportedly hit in the head with an axe and police Tasering another man, in a scenario NT Police described only as a “large disturbance” suspected to have been caused by payback over an alleged killing last year.
Police are asking for public assistance to identify the people responsible for smashing the windows of up to 20 vehicles parked at an apartment complex on Gap Road overnight in another senseless crime that a local MLA says is taking a toll on young families in Alice Springs.
