The NT Government’s move to scrap middle schools in favour of new “comprehensive” high schools will start in Darwin and Palmerston by next year, the Education Minister has pledged, with Alice Springs scheduled to come on line in 2027, while the changes come amid an ongoing teacher shortage.
An Alice Springs-based solar provider has pleaded guilty to charges related to an altercation with an electrical safety inspector on September 28, 2023, that involved “intimidation”, NT WorkSafe said.
The NT health practitioner at the centre of claims by the nurse’s union that he is under investigation by NT Police for alleged multiple rapes, and who was allowed to return to work by the Health Department, has suddenly been suspended by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
A 22-year-old man has had his charge upgraded to murder for allegedly stabbing a man in the chest in the Alice Springs city centre in May, NT Police said.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has found former NT Police constable Zach Rolfe “was racist and worked in and benefitted from an organisation with the hallmarks of institutional racism”, which she said may have contributed to the “avoidable” shooting death of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker.
The Health Department and the Health Minister will not comment on allegations a health practitioner under investigation by NT Police for alleged multiple rapes has been allowed to return to work, while police have refused to confirm the investigation and the industry regulator has claimed it can’t comment on whether a complaint has been filed against the practitioner.
The Health Department is allowing a health practitioner under investigation by NT Police for alleged multiple rapes to return to work, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has said, raising safety concerns for staff.
A 72-year-old man was threatened by two young males armed with an edged weapon and a shovel who broke into his Alice Springs house and are now on the run. In another incident a police car was rammed by a 14-year-old boy in a stolen car.
A man is on the run after he and another man smashed a door to break into Lasseters Hotel Casino in Alice Springs this morning, NT Police said. In another incident, a female staff member of a licensed business was allegedly hit in the hand with a bottle of wine by a man who was stealing it.
A 150km section of the Tanami Road from Yuendumu to the west of Chilla Well has now been sealed at a cost of $197 million, the Finocchiaro Government has said.
An off-duty NT Corrections officer who was returning home from a fundraiser for another officer who lost his eye last month in an attack at Holtze Prison, had his face slashed by an unknown offender late Saturday night after refusing demands for cigarettes and money, a union official has confirmed.
Nearly 800 letters demanding an independent investigation into the death of Kumanjayi White have been presented to NT Parliament, while the Chief Minister continues to reject the calls, stating this morning that she “can’t understand” why Indigenous Territorians do not trust the NT Police and claimed it is “a fantastic relationship”.
