Four teens assaulted staff at a Fannie Bay dental clinic shortly after chroming in a nearby cafe, the owner of the practice has said, in a violent attack which was followed the next day by three teens assaulting two women in Darwin city, leading to calls from the business community for more police on the streets.
EXCLUSIVE: Yuendumu officer-in-charge Sergeant Julie Frost endangered health staff with an ill-fated plan to “deceive” the community, failed to take control of the officers she requested the night Kumanjayi Walker was killed and later told officers to turn off their body-worn cameras, in breach of protocol, a damning internal draft coronial report has revealed.
Auditor-General Julie Crisp has found many “significant deficiencies” in Batchelor Institute’s governance and financial controls, with the situation so dire she could not sign-off on the financials of the annual report, also calling into question student records management in a damning report on the troubled tertiary organisation.
Increased pressures and a lack of police resources have led to priority one call-out response times nearly doubling over the past five years – including a 165 per cent increase in response times from the Casuarina police station – the union representing the NT’s police officers has said.
The names of the three US Marines killed in Sunday’s Osprey crash on the Tiwi Islands have been released.
The Fyles Government’s “knife crime reduction strategy” will not include any specific law changes, instead relying on de-escalation training for retail and hospitality workers and other measures, which the Opposition said amounted to “choosing cuddles over consequences”.
Police have been involved in two pursuits of stolen cars, and have arrested 16 people in total over the theft of five cars since Wednesday in Darwin, while at least one person will also face charges over firing an arrow at a man, NT Police said.
Former NT Police Association president Vince Kelly will head the Fyles Government’s review into the NT Police, the government unilaterally announced despite pledging a bipartisan approach to the review, while calls continue for a proper independent inquiry led by a retired judge due to unresolved allegations of potential corrupt and criminal conduct.
The Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations will take no action against the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation after a four year investigation that followed raids on the corporation’s Jabiru headquarters.
The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education has settled a compensation claim made by its former chief financial officer but it has not disclosed how much they paid her after she took the institute to the Federal Court over her dismissal.
Resources company Tivan has said it has extended by six months a “not to deal’ agreement with the Fyles Government over a plot of land where it might build a minerals processing plant at the controversial proposed Middle Arm industrial area.
Michael Murphy is the new Police Commissioner, Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has announced, more than four months after the former commissioner took a secret taxpayer-funded payout to leave the role and two months after a government employee was brought in to oversee communications.
