The Federal Government has refused to say whether it will commit any funds toward the roughly $1 billion cost of a new Darwin city football stadium and other grounds to support a new Territory AFL team, as it has committed to Tasmania, while former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire said if there was to be a Northern Territory team, it should be “a long way down the track”.
Two Darwin service stations were robbed overnight, with five males arrested, and a large group of females still on the run, NT Police said.
The Lawler Government has announced the seventh review into the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education since 2017 – roughly 15 months after the ICAC released his review – but the government will not say if the failings of education ministers Eva Lawler, Mark Monaghan and the NT Education Department chief executive officer will be examined.
A man has been charged for hitting another man in the neck with a bottle in a bar in Darwin on Friday night, NT Police said.
The Federal Government has promised Charles Darwin University $24.6 million over four years to establish a medical school in partnership the Menzies School of Health Research from 2026, dependent on the development of a medical school curriculum and accreditation by the Australian Medical Council, but there was no explanation of what will happen to the existing medical school based at CDU.
The Lawler Government has proposed spending close to $1 billion in today’s dollars on building a new Darwin City football stadium along with upgrades to other regional grounds to support a new Territory AFL team, which a taskforce believes could begin playing in seven to 10 years, while disgraced former AFL boss and casino director Andrew Demetriou has joined the taskforce to help win an AFL licence for the team.
Peppimenarti community founder and Wilson family matriarch Regina Pilawuk Wilson has lodged Federal Court action on behalf of herself and members of the extended Wilson family against the Lawler Labor Government, three ministers, and the NT Police Commissioner for alleged breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act by failing to provide policing in their community comparable to the level provided to non-Indigenous NT residents.
UPDATED: Police have arrested Lazarus Bara Bara, 29, after he escaped from the Darwin Police Station at some point on Tuesday, which set off a days-long manhunt that saw police fail to issue a description until the day after the escape, while warning the public not to approach him, and then providing seemingly false information that he was headed to Adelaide River in the back of a ute.
A 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl have been charged over an aggravated robbery of a Parap service station last week, NT Police said.
A Daly River resident said police had to rescue six people from a house that was set on fire, including a seven-month-old baby, by the Jovi Boys gang and associates during a riot in the community, an assertion that was not originally accepted by NT Police media but later confirmed, while Police Minister Brent Potter said police had prioritised a protest at Lee Point rather than attending the community riots.
Licensing Inspectors are being used side-by-side with police officers to monitor people buying alcohol in bottle shops in Alice Springs, after the removal of some police axillary liquor inspectors from the town, an NT Police press release with no spokesperson’s name on it has retrospectively announced.
The NT Auditor-General has refused to sign off on the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education’s financial report for the second year in a row, citing previous failings that have not been corrected, including unsubstantiated student numbers used to access Federal and Territory funding.
