Motorsport Australia has not issued a permit for cars to compete in the Finke Desert Race following the end of the coronial inquest into the death of Nigel Harris at the 2021 race, an inquest which heard the organisation and the organisers had not acted on any of a scathing safety report’s recommendations.
NT Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman on Saturday around 5:30pm before grabbing her and later running off after a struggle.
A shortage of police officers in Alice Springs is about to get worse with more than a dozen cops applying to Queensland amid the ongoing crime crisis, the NT Independent understands, which sources say will have catastrophic impacts on policing in the troubled town.
There will be 30 additional police officers, 21 extra police liquor-licensing inspectors and “compliance officers”, as well as10 extra security guards in public areas across Alice Springs in the next two years, the federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has said.
NT Police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify the perpetrators of two recent public sexual assaults against women in Alice Springs, one occurring yesterday near Bougainvillea Park and the other last week near the Peter Sitzler building.
The AFL needs to stand up and be the organisation they clearly think they should be, by getting firmly behind all the people of the centre with genuine investment that would bring real foundational change to the lives of those they love to boast about supporting, writes Alice Springs Town Council councillor Steve Brown.
UPDATED: A man who allegedly sexually assaulted a disabled woman in Alice Springs in public on Saturday afternoon may have been apprehended after police said on Monday they have a 20-year-old man in custody in connection to the incident.
The Fyles Government has extended alcohol restrictions in Alice Springs for another three months citing widespread success and community support for the rules to be extended, including limiting takeaway sales and further narrowing bottle shops’ business hours.
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.
