The NT Police top brass’s decision to sack long-serving Sergeant Mark Casey for voicing his opinion about Jamie Chalker’s leadership was “unreasonable” and is not in line with the executive’s commitment to improve the health and wellbeing of its members, the union representing police officers has said.
Labor MLA Mark Turner has used parliamentary privilege to air explosive allegations that a senior NT Police officer inferred that Jamie Chalker had intimidated the ICAC with his “appendage” to make investigations go away and that a police inquiry into unsafe homes in Bellamack was not proceeding because the officer dismissed it as “cheap housing for poor people”.
A highly respected NT Police officer with more than 25 years of distinguished service to the Territory has been sacked by the police top brass for daring to criticise Commissioner Jamie Chalker and his executive management team in the NT Independent last year.
The Fyles Labor Government has moved a motion in Parliament to support the proposed Indigenous Voice to federal Parliament, in an attempt to wedge the Opposition CLP who say they will be abstaining from the vote despite reports of party members calling for the party to oppose the Voice.
A senior doctor at a family practice in Darwin has been committed to stand trial on one count of rape and four counts of committing an act of gross indecency, the NT Independent can reveal.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has introduced her government’s new alcohol ban legislation for remote communities on urgency in Parliament that will effectively reinstate former federal laws that lapsed last year, following weeks of pressure and amid a spike in crime and alcohol-related assaults in Alice Springs.
Former NT Police officer and Labor MLA Mark Turner says he is referring the police’s handling of the Zach Rolfe criminal investigation to federal authorities following the NT Independent’s special investigation that revealed a previously redacted internal police report that he said shows “manipulation of evidence, failure to disclose relevant material and the appearance of a perversion of justice”.
The NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services executive allegedly threatened to open a criminal investigation into NT firefighters writing slogans on their fire trucks that was part of protected workplace action amid stalled talks on a new EBA, the union representing firies has said.
EXCLUSIVE: A damning coronial report that NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker attempted to hide from the public for more than a year and a half has been obtained by the NT Independent with previous redactions lifted, that shows detectives building the murder case against Constable Zachary Rolfe ignored legal advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in their pursuit to lay a murder charge.
The NT’s first law officer, Attorney General Chansey Paech, has been referred to the anti-corruption commissioner for allegedly failing to publicly disclose “his deep connections” to an Aboriginal service provider in Alice Springs that an independent MLA says was awarded “enormous amounts of public money”.
The immediate reinstatement of alcohol bans in remote communities and town camps in Central Australia has been delayed following crisis talks between Chief Minister Natasha Fyles and the Prime Minister in Canberra, with the pair stating the report recommending the bans will be discussed by their respective cabinets next week and decisions made then.
ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was right when he said this week that governments needed to do better for the Northern Territory and the NT Government now led by Labor Chief Minister Natasha Fyles needs to have its come to jesus moment after years of misusing federal Indigenous disadvantage money that has led to the recent troubles.
