The firestorm that had burned 36,000 hectares and extended over 34 km north and 16 km south around Alice Springs at the weekend is only the start of a potential horrific bushfire season that could leave 80 per cent of the NT burned, Bushfires NT has said.
Two housing providers in Darwin and Alice Springs have received $2.12 million as part of a new pilot community-housing program by the NT Government that offers inexpensive housing to domestic violence victims and survivors in the ongoing tight rental market.
The estimated cost of the proposed National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs has increased three-fold since its 2017 announcement, new figures show, while the Territory’s acknowledged contribution has also increased by almost 40 per cent since last March.
A man was dragged up to 10 metres by a trailer attached to his car which was stolen from an Alice Springs service station, NT Police said.
The Australian Education Union NT said it welcomes the Federal Government’s $40 million equity fund to Alice Springs schools – part of the $250 million package to tackle crime in the region – but called for more accountability on the part of the NT Government after it changed its story on how the funds will be distributed.
Charges against an NT Police Fire and Emergency Services media unit employee have been suddenly dropped mid-trial by the prosecution.
The Fyles Government has extended takeaway alcohol restrictions in Alice Springs indefinitely, meaning no alcohol sales in the town on Monday and Tuesday, and restricted sales hours on other days, but the government has not provided the data the Chief Minister said was behind the decision.
A man has been charged with murder following the death of his partner in Alice Springs on Saturday after she was allegedly attacked with a blunt weapon, NT Police said.
A $1 million fund from the NT Government’s $35 million ‘market harder’ budget should be set aside for urgent tourism vouchers to keep Central Australia’s tourism industry alive following continued negative effects of Alice Springs’ crime crisis, the Opposition CLP says.
Police Minister Kate Worden used “spin and deceit” when backing Deputy Police Commissioner Murray Smalpage’s extraordinary, and ultimately incorrect claim, that crime in Alice Springs dropped to its lowest point in four years, an independent MLA has said.
Thirteen alleged offenders aged between eight and 18 have been arrested over the alleged theft of a ute and a van in Alice Springs which were intentionally driven into the path of police vehicles, and which were ultimately stopped by tyre spikes, NT Police said.
Former NT police officer Zachary Rolfe will be forced to give evidence at the Kumamjayi Walker coronial inquest after he lost his appeal against a Supreme Court decision, with the judges finding his claim of protection from giving evidence by way of a “penalty privilege” was not covered under the Coroners Act.
