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.
Three people wearing balaclavas and armed with unspecified weapons robbed a Katherine service station, NT Police said.
A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of a minister granting a 40,000 megalitre water licence to Fortune Agribusiness for the remote Singleton Station, finding in part that the Territory Families Minister who made the decision in place of the Environment Minister, was able to give reasonable and rational consideration to the matter in the four days she took to make the decision.
Ninety-eight per cent of NT Police officers who responded to a union survey believe there are not enough police, and 76 per cent have considered leaving the force in the last six months, the Northern Territory Police Association has said, but Police Minister Brent Potter said the government is on the right track with an 18 per cent increase in morale in the last year.
A two-kilometre section of the Stuart Highway that has been under repair for at least 10 months was not bituminised before the Wet season rains, which was the major cause of food supply disruptions in Darwin, the NT Independent understands, with the full extent of the situation not initially disclosed by the government.
There were more than 100 people fighting, some with weapons, in Wadeye on Sunday, with one man hit in the leg with a crossbow bolt, NT police said.
EXCLUSIVE: The Mayor of Alice Springs was threatened with an axe outside his next door neighbour’s home on Christmas Eve, sources have told the NT Independent, in an incident which comes amid a fraught situation for the troubled town, where crime has become the focus of national media attention and federal intervention.
Alice Springs businesses including a childcare centre went into a snap lockdown Friday after violent fighting erupted on the streets with weapons, which led to one man reportedly hit in the head with an axe and police Tasering another man, in a scenario NT Police described only as a “large disturbance” suspected to have been caused by payback over an alleged killing last year.
A young child has allegedly been sexually assaulted in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
Former NT Administrator Vicki O’Halloran has left an executive position at Charles Darwin University less than four months after being directly appointed to the role without having to apply, the vice-chancellor has said.
