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.

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.

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.

Three mayoral candidates say they would like to see the 21-storey hybrid civic centre-private office tower currently being built in partnership with developer DCOH stopped if elected, and also supported a review or an investigation of the decision-making process for the project, while none of the current councillors would provide their thoughts about the project on the record.

Anindilyakwa Land Council chair Cherelle Wurrawilya will not say why chief executive officer Matthew Bonson suddenly left the role less than three months after being appointed to run the troubled organisation, which was raided by the National Anti-Crime Commission last year.

Lawyers who indicate they represent Darwin Council, Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis, and council staff have threatened to sue Cyclone Tracy survivor Antony Bullock for defamation if he publishes a book about his investigation into the selection of a sculpture commemorating the cyclone’s 50th anniversary.