The chief executive officer of the Barkly Regional Council Emma Bradbury has resigned the council has said, with a statement praising her leadership despite the still unresolved serious allegations of bullying and harassment during her time in the top job, and offering no reason for her departure.
Four prisoners escaped from their cell block in Alice Springs jail overnight, a source with knowledge of the facility has said, including one who reportedly made it to the roof of the building.
Proposed high levels of gas extraction from the Beetaloo basin would take all of the nation’s carbon credits presently available, based on currently available carbon abatement options, an emissions modelling consultant has said, adding that the emissions offsets’ cost could potentially jeopardise the overall economics of the project.
UPDATED: NT Police have arrested an 18-year-old man as part of their investigation into the death of another man, who they believed was assaulted outside the Rapid Creek Business Village shopping centre early Wednesday morning, police have said.
NT Field and Game has proposed the NT Government start a million dollar pig competition in Parks and Wildlife reserves which would run in a similar way to the popular barramundi version, to reduce the feral pig population, protect the environment, and attract tourists.
The Barkly Regional Council chief executive officer is on leave for as long as she wants, Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin has said, while the council agenda shows the man who the government appointed to run the sacked Palmerston Council was part of a confidential discussion about “leadership” and “executive recruitment” on the day the council said her leave was extended.
Changes to the former Litchfield Council chief executive officer’s contract signed off by the former mayor, that allowed him to keep his council car even if he was sacked for any reason, were discussed at a confidential meeting of councillors last year but the council has not said what happened and if it is being investigated.
Darwin builder Craig Williams has been charged with industrial manslaughter over the death of a worker in Bayview, NT Work Safe have said.
Territory Business Minister Paul Kirby has said he has “written commitments” from the federal government pledging carbon offsets for fracking the Beetaloo basin, but also claimed that the gas companies would completely pay for the offsets themselves, in response to federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen saying he had no plans to be involved with creating offsets or offset infrastructure.
Barkly Regional Council has announced it has appointed an “interim” chief executive officer with Emma Bradbury being described as being on “extended leave”, a move which comes after multiple sources last week told the NT Independent she has been sacked.
Eighty-five per cent of NT Police who responded to a union survey say they considered an exit strategy from the force in the last six to 12 months, the NT Police Association has said, and that 97 per cent of respondents did not believe there are enough police to do what is asked of them, following on from last year’s vote of no confidence in the Police Commissioner.
Barkly Regional Council chief executive officer Emma Bradbury has been given an extra week’s leave, Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin says, saying she was extending her leave because she had done such a good job and deserved it, which comes during an ongoing saga over allegations of bullying and mismanagement against the CEO and the mayor and an intervention by the NT Government.
