An amphibious aircraft company the Fyles Government invested $10 million in that they claim will be a key driver of the NT’s economy in the coming years will truck up a 60-year-old plane from Victoria to house at an old hangar at the Darwin Airport, raising questions about the previously proposed Darwin Aerospace Manufacturing Precinct.
Territory Labor has refused to publicly condemn the actions of former party powerbroker Kent Rowe after he was sentenced Wednesday to five years jail for the repeated rape of a female relative while she was a child, with calls for the party to explain who knew about his crimes and when.
UPDATED: Former Territory Labor powerbroker Kent Rowe has been sentenced to five years in prison for repeatedly raping a child over a six year period, but will be free after the sentence is suspended. FIND OUT WHEN HE’LL BE RELEASED.
A group of Darwin publicans and government officials will fly to the UK in February to recruit a hundred or so bartenders, chefs and wait staff from British pubs, the Fyles Government has announced, at a cost to taxpayers of $200,000.
The Fyles Government has refused to release the travel costs of a senior public servant who once charged taxpayers to go to Disney World – and a former fifth floor staffer – because it claims that showing taxpayers where the pair travelled for a 10-month period would be an “unreasonable interference with the operations” of the Chief Minister’s department.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ misleading claims that the Middle Arm Industrial Precinct will not include a petrochemical plant were designed for her own political interests, the Opposition CLP says.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has claimed the proposed Middle Arm manufacturing precinct will not include a “petrochemical plant” despite the government’s “gas strategy” website clearly stating that the precinct will include “low-emission petrochemicals production, including ammonia, urea and ethylene” used to produce plastics.
EXCLUSIVE: The NT Government’s latest attempt to have TIO Stadium certified has been bungled again, after documents show the company it re-hired to fix problems with the fire hydrant system it designed does not have a proper licence to carry out the works, the NT Independent can reveal.
EXCLUSIVE: Eighteen young offenders are fronting Darwin’s youth court Monday charged with 28 violent robbery offences between them – with one offender alone also facing 13 serious breach of bail charges – according to a youth criminal justice court list obtained by the NT Independent.
Labor Minister Lauren Moss charged taxpayers more than $360,000 to fit out her new electorate office, government documents show, which is more money than she committed to community suicide prevention programs for the year.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has rejected calls to seek possible further examples of “systemic racism” in the NT Police force by obtaining a “random sample of cell phones and records” of senior members of the NT Police.
The NT Government secretly hired the company that certified and engineered the troubled fire hydrant system at TIO Stadium to “investigate” their own project’s alleged failings amid public safety concerns, according to government documents sent to media, government officials and law enforcement agencies late last week.
