The new Barkly Regional Council manager has said a report that examined alleged bullying by the former chief executive officer Emma Bradbury among other allegations, should be made public, while the terms of reference show the investigation also looked at how the complaints against the former CEO were handled by Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin.
Public servant positions in the NT Government have risen by roughly 1,300 since the Labor Government’s 2018 hiring freeze and subsequent hiring cap, implemented in response to a growing financial crisis, the latest State of the Service report shows.
The splitting of NT Fire and Rescue from NT Police and NT Emergency Services to create stand alone agencies has been welcomed by the United Workers Union, but the NT boss has said the fact firefighters only found out about the split from the media did not augur well for their relationship with new Minister Brent Potter.
The Fyles Government has rejected a recommendation from a scathing Public Accounts Committee inquiry into its flawed Local Decision Making program, that would explore the viability of community councils with local government structures in remote communities.
Fugitive Jermaine Austral, who has now been arrested, stabbed a man in the back in a home invasion the week before he allegedly broke into a Johnston house with a gun, sources have told the NT Independent – information the NT Police have not disclosed to the public.
The Department of Chief Minister and Cabinet is looking for someone to bring empathy to the public service by leading the design and delivery of “customer experience and human-centred design learning pathways, programs and tools” in the NT public service, described as being part of the the Chief Minister’s “Customer Reform Agenda” from 2020.
Oil and gas giant Santos has hit back at claims its Barossa gas pipeline would interfere with underwater Indigenous heritage sites with independent research it says shows there are no cultural heritage sites along its proposed pipeline route, that a group of Tiwi Islanders applied to the Federal Government to halt this week.
NT Police has released a description of a man wanted over an unspecified “serious crime”, two days after warning the public not to approach him, and four days after he allegedly broke into a house with a gun that ended with a failed attempt to arrest him by the Territory Response Group.
The NT Police misinformed the public when it described a man who had his eye gouged out by a stick at a service station earlier this month as a passerby, while the union representing store workers has called the Fyles Government out for putting workers’ safety at risk by turning mandatory safety audits of late night businesses into a voluntary scheme.
Tiwi Island elders have applied to have an emergency declaration made to temporarily stop Santos constructing a pipeline for its Barossa gas project, while also preventing the company from building the pipeline on the planned route, the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has confirmed.
NT Police have warned the public not to approach a dangerous offender, after suppressing for almost 24 hours that he was on the run after breaking into a house with a gun on Sunday, who was once jailed over an outback crime spree committed while he was on the lam, which included him pulling a knife on a tourist.
A man suffered serious injuries in a hit-and-run in Palmerston, NT Police has said.
