Police officers ended an estimated 40-second pursuit of a suspicious ute in Darwin city last week for “safety reasons” four to five seconds before it ran through a red light and hit a taxi, injuring passengers in the car, NT Police said.
Michael Murphy awarded deputy CEO job with Royal Flying Doctors
Disgraced former NT police commissioner Michael Murphy has been appointed deputy chief executive of the Royal Flying Doctor Service SA/NT, with the organisation praising his “principled leadership” and “strong commitment to public trust”, despite a corruption watchdog report earlier this year finding he was “incompetent” and “negligent” and created a substantial detriment to the public interest by hiring a mate as assistant commissioner.
Investigation into Kumanjayi White’s death referred to DPP for possible charges
A brief of evidence into the death of Aboriginal man Kumanjayi White at the hands of Alice Springs police has been provided to the Director of Public Prosecutions to determine if charges should be laid, Police Commissioner Martin Dole has said, while police refused to say how Mr White died despite the autopsy report now completed.
Licence for Santos’s leaking gas export plant renewed with ‘conditions’
The NT Environment Protection Authority has renewed the Darwin Liquified Natural Gas plant’s licence for another five years with new conditions, but appears to be permitting Santos to decide how much a leaking storage tank can continue to leak, a decision the Environment Centre NT said was providing a license to pollute while showing the regulator would not enforce consequences for “super emitters”.
‘A lightning rod of dissent’: Kon Vatskalis’s Cyclone Tracy memorial legacy revisited
Kon Vatskalis’s eight-year reign as Darwin Lord Mayor ended this week in a third-place finish, while his legacy will live on in controversy, defined by the selection of the kinetic sculpture called ‘Coriolis’ as a Cyclone Tracy memorial that he later claimed was not a memorial, leading to a tangled story involving political cover-ups and ratepayer-funded threats of legal action against members of the public for trying to find answers.
13-year-old boy arrested over stolen car
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested after two vehicles were stolen in Alice Springs overnight, the NT Police said.
Taxi stolen in Malak, driver threatened with screwdriver
A 22-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly threatening a taxi driver with a screwdriver and telling him he would kill him before stealing the vehicle in Malak overnight, NT Police said.
Tennant Creek man arrested after alleged assault across from police station
A 49-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly striking another man in the head with an unspecified blunt object, directly across from the Tennant Creek Police Station, NT Police said.
St John Ambulance downgraded urgency of response to child who later died: Union
The ambulance that was sent to treat a 10-year-old child who ended up dying in an Alice Springs home last month was downgraded from a priority one response to a less urgent one by St John Ambulance NT, the union representing paramedics has said, but the ambulance service rejected that the call was downgraded and said the response was appropriate.
Government warned of mass relocation to Darwin if Wadeye barge stops
Hundreds of Wadeye residents may be forced to move to Darwin in an “avoidable humanitarian crisis” this wet season because the barge that carries food from Darwin will stop operating on Monday, the Thamarrurr Development Corporation has said, while the government says it is working on a vague plan to provide a freight service during the Wet.
‘They are furious’: Chief correctional officers vote on industrial action
Chief correctional officers in the NT prison system are voting on whether to take protected industrial action, including work stoppages, while their enterprise bargaining agreement is being negotiated, the union representing them has said, which comes at the same time as hospital pharmacists and pharmacy technicians have taken industrial action.
Police investigating $400k attempted cattle duffing operation
The attempted duffing of up to 300 head of cattle from a Central Australian cattle station involving two road trains is under investigation, NT Police said.