The 2022 AFL Premiership Cup is visiting the Territory for the first time this weekend as part of its extended 21-day journey to local communities.
Traditional owners’ court challenge against NT Government over Singleton Station water licence to be heard this week
Traditional owners and the Arid Land Environment Centre will have their legal challenge against the NT Government over the granting of the massive Singleton Station water licence, which they say disregarded technical evidence and Aboriginal cultural rights to the water, heard in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Pine Gap a target for possible nuclear missile strike, defence strategist warns
Pine Gap in the NT could become a nuclear target for America’s enemies if international tensions continue to rise, a leading defence strategist has warned.
Fatal Failures: Rolfe should not have been in the IRT, ‘likely’ would not have been recruited if truthful in application, report shows
EXCLUSIVE: Constable Zach Rolfe would not have been recruited into the police force if he had been honest about his military disciplinary history, and the impact of undisclosed medication he was taking for a “psychiatric condition” in the months before shooting and killing Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu will never be known, a draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police states.
Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest draft witness list
The inquest into the death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot by a NT Police officer Constable Zach Rolfe in 2019, will begin on Monday and run for approximately three months. Here is a draft list of witnesses.
Fyles Government kills public inquiry into police, says it is currently restructuring force
The Fyles Government has rejected calls for a parliamentary inquiry into the ongoing crisis in NT Police, saying it is currently undertaking a financial and structural reorganisation of the police force that will “get to the bottom” of the problems.
‘Absolutely disgusting’: Man charged for ‘propositioning’ children in Alice Springs, exposing himself
A 38-year-old man who allegedly exposed himself to a child near the Todd River and spoke to a “number of children” in an “indecent manner” last month has been arrested and charged, NT Police said.
Fatal Failures: Bombshell NT Police internal document reveals massive failures in shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker
EXCLUSIVE: A draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police and obtained by the NT Independent has revealed the shocking extent of police failures in the hours before the shooting death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker in November 2019, including that two of the senior officers in charge of deploying the taskforce that raided his home did not understand how the Immediate Response Team functioned nor how it should be deployed.
Woman hit by car, killed, while lying on Stuart Hwy
A woman was killed after she was run over while lying on the Stuart Hwy in Alice Springs, NT Police has said.
Kids 11 to 16-years arrested over alleged attempted Alice Springs break-in
Eight kids aged between 11 and 16-years old have been arrested over an alleged attempted break-in on Friday night in Alice Springs, NT Police have said.
Kids as young as 11 allegedly break into 84-year old’s house, physically restrain her: NT Police
A group of five youths, including two eleven-year-old boys, allegedly broke in an 84-year old’s house in Tennant Creek on Sunday, with one restraining her, while the others searched her property before running off, NT Police have said.
Opinion: Police executive engaging in misdirection campaign over Kumanjayi Walker’s death
The only way the Yuendumu community will ever recover, and get any form of justice from the death of Kumanjayi Walker, is to free themselves of the NT Police executives’ constructed blame of Constable Rolfe, and look at the multitude of failures made by management sending the Immediate Response Team there in the first place, writes the former leader of that unit Carey Joy.