Electrical Trades Union members at Power Water and Territory Generation will vote on whether to take industrial action to protest the four-year pay freeze and low staffing levels, which could include not working overtime and not disconnecting power from homes for non-payments, the union’s organiser has said.
A 35-year-old man was arrested in Alice Springs on Sunday after allegedly assaulting his 29-year-old female partner, with both being sent to hospital with injuries, NT Police said.
Two people were killed and a third adult was taken to Tennant Creek Hospital following a single vehicle rollover 75km north of Tennant Creek on the Stuart Highway, NT Police said.
A 26-year-old man has been charged with an alleged indecent assault of a girl at an Alice Springs business, NT Police have said.
Two men and a teen have been arrested and charged for allegedly seriously assaulting a man with a weapon in an Alice Springs street in the middle of the day last week that sent the victim to hospital with head injuries, NT Police said.
Taxpayers were charged millions for the failed prosecution of Constable Zach Rolfe, for the investigation into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker, as well as for costs for the upcoming coronial inquest, official figures released by the NT Government show.
SEE THE VIDEOS: A video has captured a naked man – who had allegedly just seriously assaulted a woman – holding his penis before climbing on top of a taxi and smashing the windscreen with his feet, then sitting on the roof of the car as the driver takes off.
A man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman on the Stuart Hwy south of Tennant Creek, before forcing her into a car and driving into the bush, NT Police have said.
A 43-year-old man suffered serious head and upper body injuries after he was assaulted by a group of three assailants in the middle of the day with a “blunt weapon”, NT Police said, calling for the public’s help to find those responsible.
Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour said violence in Aboriginal communities in her electorate was an emergency issue which needed urgent attention but not an intervention like in 2007, and she was also critical about the way alcohol restrictions were removed from communities, in her maiden speech to parliament on Wednesday night. You can listen here.
Foodbank NT has received a $1 million funding increase as part of a new funding agreement with the Territory Labor Government that grants the group $2.4 million over the next five years, with demand increasing from Territorians struggling to afford food as costs increase.
Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price gave her maiden speech on Wednesday night where she talked about violence in Aboriginal communities, children witnessing or being subjected to alcohol abuse, domestic and sexual violence, and the failures of the justice system to protect women and children. Watch it here.
