The former head of the Pastoral Land Board says growing commercial cotton on pastoral lease land without a special permit does not fall within the definition of “pastoral purposes” under the law, while the Lawler Government’s defence of the action removes the specific wording contained under the Act, which states anything grown on the land must be “essential to” and “inseparable from” the business of cattle grazing.
A man has been arrested over the “suspicious” death of a woman in a Malak house overnight, NT Police said.
The NT Government’s gas supply deal with Beetaloo Basin gas players is estimated to be worth $4 billion, which a new report says will provide roughly three times more gas than the NT needs to generate electricity by 2030, while better value for money could have been achieved for the Territory.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has been forced to issue another “apology”, this time to the owners of Bojangles Saloon in Alice Springs, for publicly claiming the owners breached responsible service of alcohol laws, which was incorrect and led to the bar having its licence suspended for two days.
A woman was killed when she was hit by a road train on the Stuart Highway overnight, NT Police said.
NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has resigned from the union representing police in a late night statement after the association mildly criticised parts of his apology speech to Aboriginal Territorians, accusing him of failing to tell his members about the content and intent of his address in advance of his speech.
Police Minister Brent Potter has pledged if re-elected the Lawler Government will pass legislation absolving itself of the responsibility to pay back Territorians for “many” decades worth of unlawful additional penalties added to fines by the Fines Recovery Unit, an announcement made on the second day of the caretaker period for a problem he said his government first learnt about on Tuesday.
St John Ambulance has signed a funding deal with the government worth up to $57 million for this financial year, while the government will also pay for a “reform consultant” to help address “agreed outcomes” from the clinical governance and ambulance service structural reviews, as well as an independent finance audit, the chief executive officer of the ambulance service has said.
Leanne Liddle has been named executive director of the NT Police’s Community Resilience and Engagement Command, tasked with designing the agency’s anti-racism strategy, but Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has not made an official public announcement about the appointment amid turmoil over unresolved allegations of systemic racism in the force.
A man was stabbed in the chest in Hermannsburg over the weekend, allegedly by his partner, NT Police said.
An eight-year-old child and his mother had a machete held to their throats in an Alice Springs home invasion last weekend, while a 75-year-old woman woke up to find three men in her bedroom, one armed with a machete, with the details of the crimes suppressed by the NT Police, sources have told the NT Independent.
The Federal Government has announced $250 million in renewable energy spending for the Northern Territory, which the Australian Conservation Foundation said it expects will in part go toward connecting solar plants to the grid that have sat unconnected for years, following warnings from the NT Utilities Commission of widespread blackouts starting over the next three years without investment in the system.
