EXCLUSIVE: A video of Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin sitting on an Indigenous child while another man puts his booted foot on the child’s head while threatening to kill him has been reported to NT Police, the NT Independent can reveal. WATCH THE VIDEO
The Tennant Creek and District Times’ owner, editor and reporter Tash Adams’ role as the Barkly Regional Council media advisor and executive assistant to the Mayor and chief executive officer has been described as “ethically untenable” by a journalism ethics academic.
Both the federal and Territory governments will not say if they were owed money by the failed Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation which was placed in administration in early August, after having mining royalty funding cut by traditional owners, but which had kept providing services using other money.
The Barkly Regional Council acting chief executive officer has left the job without notice, the council has said, in the latest leadership change at the troubled council.
NT Police are still trying to determine the identities of six people killed in a crash between a 4WD and a road train near Pine Creek on Friday, with up to four of those in the car believed to be children, Police Commissioner Michael Murphy said.
A person has a serious eye injury after being hit with a stick thrown by one of a group of three youths inside a northern suburbs service station, NT Police said.
A remote Territory mine site went into lockdown after two workers were injured following a group of unknown people breaking-in on Saturday morning, the company had said.
The continued sustainability and prosperity of the Territory’s estimated $270 million recreational fishing and tourism sector is dependent on catch quotas and licence buybacks being introduced, along with gillnets being phased out, the Amateur Fishermen’s Association of the Northern Territory has said.
The co-chair of the Uluru Statement and a key proponent of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Pat Anderson was forced by the NT’s corruption watchdog to re-establish a legally-mandated Indigenous advisory board to the Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education which she chairs, however close to a year after agreeing, the organisation will not say what progress has been made.
Creditors have voted to wind up the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, a well-placed source has said, with financial records showing the organisation continued to provide services despite almost $2 million in funding for those services having been withheld, with money being shuffled from elsewhere in the organisation to cover the shortfall.
A vote on a motion proposing Darwin Council publicly support the Yes vote in the upcoming referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has been delayed until after the referendum, rendering it redundant, after a councillor had the debate adjourned Tuesday night.
WARNING DISTURBING CONTENT: A Darwin crocodile researcher who referred to dogs as “sex toys” has pled guilty to charges including beastiality, animal cruelty, and possessing child abuse material, having filmed the extreme torture and killing of 39 dogs he had mostly sourced from Gumtree, where in some instances he had convinced distressed owners who were moving interstate that their pets were going to a good home.
