The Fyles Government has rejected a recommendation from a scathing Public Accounts Committee inquiry into its flawed Local Decision Making program, that would explore the viability of community councils with local government structures in remote communities.
Independent Alice Springs MLA Robyn Lambley has blasted the Fyles Labor Government in Parliament for failing to deliver more than $500 million worth of infrastructure projects it pledged for the town when it was first elected in 2016.
A stolen ute was used to ram raid two Alice Springs businesses, and was later driven dangerously around the CBD with occupants throwing “objects” at police officers, NT Police said.
A woman has died in hospital following a single vehicle crash in Larapinta on Sunday, NT Police said.
The Federal Member for Lingiari has blamed the Fyles Government for not listening or acting on a range of social issues in the Territory that contributed to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament failing to pass over the weekend, calling for a “fundamental shift” in how the NT’s Labor politicians currently perform their roles.
Renowned national and local musicians including Paul Kelly will be performing at ‘The Warm-Up’ concert at Anzac Oval in Alice Springs this Saturday at 2:30pm, one year out from the Alice Springs Masters Games.
The Territory’s Power and Water Corporation and Alice Springs Council are pointing fingers at who should shoulder the cost for the urgent streetlights upgrade on the notorious Gap Road – a hot spot for many traffic fatalities – with no resolution in sight.
Police are offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the location of Angie Fuller who went missing on a remote road outside of Alice Springs nine months ago, and who authorities believe has been murdered.
A defiant Jeffrey McLaughlin has refused to resign as Mayor of the Barkly Regional Council while police investigate a video that shows him holding an Indigenous child to the ground as another man threatens to kill the boy, blaming the Fyles Government’s “youth crime epidemic” for his actions that have been denounced by federal agencies as “excessive violence”.
The NT Government is considering challenging a landmark decision by the NT Supreme Court this week that found the Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities is responsible for delivering safe drinking water to residents in the remote community of Laramba.
Both the federal and Territory governments will not say if they were owed money by the failed Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation which was placed in administration in early August, after having mining royalty funding cut by traditional owners, but which had kept providing services using other money.
The co-chair of the Uluru Statement and a key proponent of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Pat Anderson was forced by the NT’s corruption watchdog to re-establish a legally-mandated Indigenous advisory board to the Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education which she chairs, however close to a year after agreeing, the organisation will not say what progress has been made.
