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.
The Fyles Government has announced a voluntary buy-back of grocery store liquor licences across the NT, which it said will reduce the number of takeaway alcohol outlets and alcohol-related harm.
Two children, aged 12 and 13, have been arrested for allegedly driving a stolen Toyota Hilux dangerously around Alice Springs for two hours in the middle of the morning, NT Police said.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has announced her government will introduce urgent bail reforms that would see a presumption against bail for offenders charged with violent offences using a weapon, which comes in response to community outrage over the death of 20-year-old bottle shop worker Declan Laverty.
Territorians want smarter justice solutions put in place to break the criminal cycle and improve community safety, according to a new report by the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Agreement group, that shows that the NT Government’s ‘tough-on-crime’ policies have failed.
