Infrastructure Minister Joel Bowden could not provide an estimate of how much the Civic Park and State Square redevelopment would cost taxpayers while announcing the latest “revitalisation” project Thursday morning, and said he was unaware of the existence of a business case for the project, which appears to have ballooned to close to $200 million at least.
The Anindilyakwa Land Council chief executive officer is also the CEO of a mining company, as well as the director of a mining logistics company that services the mine, both of which directly or indirectly received a total of $24 million in royalty money from the land council in one year, an independent audit found, raising conflict of interest concerns.
A union has demanded Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman apologise for blaming workers for the delayed opening of the university’s city campus, saying it is “despicable” to blame workers for mismanagement on the project.
A Tennant Creek senior who was struck in the head with an iron bar during a violent home invasion in December was rushed to Darwin to stop bleeding on his brain after days of delays to proper health treatment, a source has said.
A cyclone warning has been issued with the Bureau of Meteorology maintaining there is a 40 per cent chance of a cyclone forming in the Gulf of Carpentaria and crossing the Northern Territory coast on Friday.
Suspended Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin is still being investigated by police for sitting on a child during a claimed “citizen’s arrest”, more than five months after it happened, and three months after a man who was threatening the same boy was charged with aggravated assault.
The Bureau of Meteorology says there is about a 40 per cent chance of a cyclone developing in the southwest of the Gulf of Carpentaria by Friday, with the agency expecting it to cross the coast over Borroloola on the weekend.
A man threatened service station staff with an unspecified edged weapon multiple times in an armed robbery in Tennant Creek, NT Police said.
UPDATED: A man in Tennant Creek has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a child, NT Police said, and was charged on Friday.
The Lawler Government has said it will implement “effort limits” for this year’s commercial barramundi season rather than impose catch quotas, but the fishing guides’ peak body said the policy allowed the commercial gillnet fishing industry to operate at higher-than-average levels in important recreational fishing areas and relied on an honesty system.
Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation’s finances are being examined by order of the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, after the statutory body brought in an independent accounting firm to forensically audit the books.
Charles Darwin University’s domestic bachelor degree completion rates are the worst in the country, according to federal Education Department figures, but the university said the data do not take into account its high number of mature-age students who take longer to finish their studies, and did not include how many students were still enrolled but had not finished their courses after nine years.
