Labor has promised to ban commercial barramundi fishing gillnets and buy back commercial licences if elected, before the release of the NT Fisheries’ review of the barramundi fishery that was promised by the party in the lead up to the last election, with the announcement also at odds with a 2021 government statement about developing a seafood processing facility.
A NT Local Court judge awarded a woman $120,000 in civil damages after finding a police officer slipped a finger into her vagina during an illegal search for drugs and jewellery that was done in front of male police officers, adding if the matter were raised in a criminal court it would likely constitute an assault and battery.
The Anindilyakwa Land Council chief executive officer Mark Hewitt told a Senate committee hearing he sought to be given shares in an Aboriginal-owned mine in which he is also CEO to provide “stability” to the project, while the mine was funded by more than $15 million in royalties from traditional owners distributed through the ALC.
The Lawler Labor Government secretly gave taxpayer money to keep the Darwin Salties basketball team afloat despite seemingly never seeing audited financial statements, claiming the details are commercial in confidence, while financial documents show the club lost more than $500,000 in its first two years of operation after receiving roughly $1 million combined from two Territory basketball organisations and the NT Government.
A Wadeye man has been charged after another man was stabbed in the back in the remote community, NT Police said.
A man has been charged after allegedly stabbing a woman in the neck in a Moil street, NT Police said.
The Lawler Government has awarded the $154 million contract to build the Alice Spring’s national Aboriginal art gallery to Sitzler, at the same cost it first announced two years ago, which is at the low end of a 2019 cost range estimate, but the government will not say much Darwin’s Civic and State Square development will cost to complete, despite earlier pledging to reveal the cost.
Two Alice Springs paramedics feared for their lives, and the life of their patient, when they were threatened by a bystander with a knife, the union representing paramedics said.
Two youths, one armed with an unspecified edged weapon, stole a bag from an employee at a restaurant, and soon after assaulted a security guard, NT Police said.
Several Australian Ford dealers still have a video of self-confessed dog rapist and killer Dr Adam Britton promoting the company’s Ranger ute on their Facebook pages, while Ford Malaysia have today removed the video from its Facebook page.
UPDATED: A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder, rape and breaching a domestic violence order in connection to the death of a woman in Coconut Grove on Saturday afternoon, NT Police said.
The chairman of the troubled Anindilyakwa Land Council, who was also an employee of the council along with having roles in two companies which were distributed royalties by the council, has resigned, following allegations that are the subject of an investigation into council by the National Indigenous Australians Agency’s integrity group.
