Three Barkly Regional Council councillors quit unexpectedly on Thursday during a regular council meeting, the chief executive officer has confirmed, with the resignations following one of the three telling staff that recent issues had “attracted negative media attention”.
EXCLUSIVE: The NT Government’s recently announced water allocation figures have been called into question by scientists after it inexplicably doubled the estimated annual re-filling rate provided by a hydrologist for one aquifer, then created its own figure for another aquifer which it attributed to his model despite the consultant not providing an estimate for the recharge.
Police were forced to flee from a group in Wadeye after an officer was hit in the head with a rock yesterday while officers were responding to a man being attacked with an axe, in more violence in the remote community, NT Police have said.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged sexual assault of a child in broad daylight in Driver on Wednesday afternoon, NT Police have said.
Recreational fishos will need a permit to fish in waters overlying on Aboriginal land in certain areas of the Northern Territory from January 1, while some other Aboriginal waters will remain closed to fishing, while others will remain free of permits, the Northern Land Council has said.
A man was stabbed with a broken bottle in Darwin city on Thursday night, with NT Police arresting another man for the attack, the media have reported.
The Territory Government is still promoting the production of fertilisers, explosives, paper, plastics and chemicals – energy intensive industries – at the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct to investors, despite the Chief Minister repeatedly saying there will be no petrochemicals produced at the site, offical records show.
The full Federal Court has upheld a September ruling that invalidated Santos’ approvals to drill for gas in its Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea above the Tiwi islands, after Munupi clan elder Denis Murphy Tipakalippa had taken the company to court in June, arguing they did not consult properly with traditional owners.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker’s latest comments about the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest have been described as “completely inappropriate” and “baffling” by Northern Territory Police Association president Paul McCue.
Petrochemical production at Middle Arm is still part of an environmental impact assessment for the proposed industrial precinct, despite a scrub of government websites and Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’s recent denials that it would be part of the project, government documents show.
A plan to close off the Alice Springs CBD to traffic at night using bollards, has been put to the Alice Springs Town Council by the Fyles Government, the mayor has said, while an independent MLA has gone further and suggested heavy duty gates and concrete road blocks need to be used.
Police morale has not changed since 80 per cent of respondents voted in August that they had no confidence in Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker, the NT Police Association has said, in an embarrassing challenge to Mr Chalker’s assertion this week attitudes towards him have “changed dramatically”.
