Territory Labor MLA Mark Turner has labelled the installation of a Department of Chief Minister and Cabinet marketing manager, who gives strategic advice on the “Territory master brand”, to oversee what crime is reported to the public by the NT Police as “Orwellian” and called for “courage” to end the political interference.
Judge Alan Woodcock has committed Keith Kerinauia to stand trial for murder over the stabbing death of bottleshop worker Declan Laverty in Darwin in March.
Access to Inpex’s Darwin Ichthys LNG processing plant has been restricted to essential staff only, as flaring is undertaken as part of “production safety system” measures, the company has said.
The company that owns Darwin Fish Market has gone into administration, an Australian Security and Investment Commission notice shows.
Frustrated firefighters say they still do not understand what the Fyles Government is willing to offer them after an almost 1000-day pay dispute, while their union claims Public Employment Minister Paul Kirby cancelled a meeting over the new contract because he said he was too busy on the Northern Territory show circuit.
A former Barkly Regional Council employee has accused the former chief executive of sacking him because he complained about her alleged incompetent handling of a sexual harassment investigation, court documents show, while he further alleged a confidential email complaint to the Mayor about the CEO’s behaviour was sent to her.
A lack of police staff in remote areas is putting officer’s lives at risk, the union says, after an alleged attempted axe attack on two police officers in Wadeye last month, where sources told the NT Independent it was only through the intervention of the alleged attacker’s family that the officers escaped injury.
Blackouts in the Darwin‑Katherine power system will occur within three years unless the government deals with the anticipated nearly 50 per cent reduction in peak electricity generation capacity from the Channel Island power station, the Utilities Commission of the Northern Territory has warned in its latest report.
The Fyles Government has spruiked the success of an NT jobs website it had built, but each day a public servant is being forced to manually delete the many overseas and interstate listings on the almost $180,000-a-year site due to issues with the system, a source with knowledge of the situation has said.
The NT Police director of communications Margaret McKeown has been sacked without explanation, sources have told the NT Independent, which comes amid revelations the Fyles Government appointed a marketing manager to usurp the NT Police media unit to control how the police force reports crime to the public.
Police Minister Kate Worden used “spin and deceit” when backing Deputy Police Commissioner Murray Smalpage’s extraordinary, and ultimately incorrect claim, that crime in Alice Springs dropped to its lowest point in four years, an independent MLA has said.
The NT Fire Service will crew the Humpty Doo fire station during the day seven days a week over the Dry, relying on staff to do overtime to cover the weekend shifts, while the move was welcomed by some firefighters as a “positive start”, the union said the station needed to be permanently staffed for rural area residents’ safety.
