NT Police watch commanders in Alice Springs have been told by the brass not to post serious crimes on social media because it has negatively affected tourism in the region, which comes amid a critical shortage of officers in town, resulting in some crimes not being fully investigated, highly-placed sources have told the NT Independent.
A Senate committee report on fracking in the Territory’s Beetaloo basin has recommended an inquiry into the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct that will host liquified natural gas and petrochemical plants, and recommended the Federal Government “strongly assist” the NT Government to create a regulatory framework to offset all emissions from fracking in the basin.
Action for Alice Facebook page operator Darren Clark has alleged Territory Families Minister Kate Worden told him he was lucky her husband had not come with her to bash him in their first meeting, which came after Mr Clark had published a Facebook post critical of her going on holidays during a rise in crime in the town.
One man is facing an aggravated indecent assault charge after an Alice Springs woman woke up to allegedly find him in her bed on Friday night, while his co-accused has already been released on bail charged with stealing and unlawful entry.
Federal Labor Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour has called on Territory Families and Police Minister Kate Worden to “deal with the issue” of child abuse and out-of-control crime in Central Australia rather than calling out Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton politically for raising concerns.
NT Police have asked for the public’s assistance to help locate two males they allege broke into an Alice Springs home on Wednesday morning, stealing “a quantity of jewellery” and assaulting one of the residents before fleeing the scene.
A 14-year old boy and two 16-year old boys have been arrested for allegedly breaking into, and trying to steal money from, a nursing home in Alice Springs in the early hour of Tuesday, NT Police said.
NT Police is investigating two fatal crashes in central Australia, with one man killed in a rollover near Hermannsburg on Saturday, and a man killed on a quad bike on the Finke track on Friday.
NT Police are searching for an unknown man who allegedly “grabbed” a woman as she walked alone in Alice Springs on Tuesday evening before fleeing.
The Northern Territory’s Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary has recorded the first birth of a baby greater bilby since the species was reintroduced in May last year, part of a bilby boom in Australia in the last year.
Alcohol-related presentations at Alice Springs Hospital have plummeted in the eight weeks since liquor bans were reinstated in the region, according to new data – a troubling fact that an independent MLA says shows the Fyles Government made a “terrible mistake” by letting the bans lapse that caused “untold harm” to Aboriginal women and children.
NT Police have been forced to provide custody facilities at the Peter McAulay Centre and multiple watch houses to NT Corrections to help house the record number of prisoners in the NT’s justice system, after prisons in both Darwin and Alice Springs surpassed capacity this week, a situation the police said was a “short term solution” but that corrections says will not end soon.
