The lawyer appointed to investigate the Barkly Regional Council has told a former employee that she has been excluded from examining code of conduct complaints against elected members, chief executive officers, or other staff, despite serious allegations of bullying, harassment, and mismanagement at the troubled council, which include the bungled handling of a sexual harassment complaint made by a young Indigenous woman.
Child protection workers will be rostered on overnight in Alice Springs on weekdays and 24-hours on Friday to Sunday in a trial lasting less than two months, the Fyles Government has announced, breaking the promise of Police Minister Brent Potter who when spruiking the government’s so-called ‘summer crime reduction plan’ said they would be on the streets 24-hours-a-day with no mention of it being a trial.
The parents of a child who was filmed while suspended Tennant Creek mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin sat on him and another man abused and threatened the boy, want criminal charges laid against the mayor, while also seeking legal advice about taking civil action against him and the NT News.
There are three less police officers in Alice Springs now than in late January when the Prime Minister announced there would be 30 more police, NT Police Association president Nathan Finn said, accusing the government of misleading the public and saying there are not enough police to fill regular shifts, let alone provide the 50 “extra” officers daily that were promised recently.
A majority of grocery store liquor licenses are tied to the building which thwarted the Fyles Government’s license buy-back scheme, industry sources said, something the government did not know when it made its policy, while the government has refused to say what percentage of the Territory’s alcohol sales the three licenses bought back accounted for.
The southern part of Berrimah Rd leading to East Arm will be closed for up to a year as part of the next stage of the Tiger Brennan Drive overpass construction, a project that almost tripled in cost since it was first announced.
NT Police have warned the public not to approach a man they believe breached his bail, but failed to tell the public he had previously served time for killing a man in a remote community.
Territory Families Minister Ngaree Ah Kit says she will be “looking very closely” at having youth workers on the streets of Alice Springs 24-hours-a-day, something the Police Minister said two weeks ago would definitely happen.
An unidentified offender is on the run after stealing a 4WD and colliding it with a stationary car occupied by a woman and a one-year-old girl, NT Police said.
The GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt has been broken into for a third time in less than two months, sources have said.
Young offenders are still on the run after throwing rocks at police following a ram raid of an Alice Springs service station, NT Police said, which followed the arrest of eight children aged between 11 and 13 for stealing a car, while a prominent businessman says the town is in a similar situation to last year, despite the Fyles Government’s summer crime reduction ‘plan’.
NT Police has said its investigation file on last year’s crash of Matt Wright’s company’s helicopter includes evidence of maintenance and fuel records, expert opinions concerning the fuel system and airworthiness of the aircraft, and toxicology analyses of individuals involved in the crash.
