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.
Creditors have voted to wind up the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, a well-placed source has said, with financial records showing the organisation continued to provide services despite almost $2 million in funding for those services having been withheld, with money being shuffled from elsewhere in the organisation to cover the shortfall.
Hundreds of Territorians took part in a day of action across the NT on Tuesday, calling on the government to properly fund domestic and family violence services, a month after it was revealed the Fyles Government had only funded $20 million of the required $180 million requested by the sector.
A man was killed in a collision between a car and a truck in Alice Springs on Monday morning, NT Police said.
Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler has exempted an unspecified number of government buildings from requiring occupancy certificates, while seeming to indicate none had been inspected by certifiers almost 15 months after the government announced a taskforce to investigate non-compliant buildings, and more than 13 months after the Territory’s anti-corruption watchdog launched its own investigation.
Bonza Aviation has announced it will add three new routes between Darwin and Alice Springs and interstate destinations but the Fyles Government has not said how much it was costing the taxpayer to attract the airline.
Ten new ‘hydro panels’ have been installed in the central Australian community of Irrkerlantye to provide drinking water, not-for-profit Children’s Ground has said.
