The peak body that protects the public from wrongdoing by health practitioners found United Australia Party candidate Raj Samson Rajwin was a “moderate risk” to the public after a criminal investigation into his claims of being a doctor during a previous election campaign.
More than 400 people are still displaced, with hundreds living in tents on the edge of town too scared to buy food; the school has been closed after a teacher was assaulted, a man was speared in the leg and the Health Clinic attacked, children are walking around with homemade tomahawks, a worker’s camp was ram-raided, and at least 45 houses have been left unliveable due to damage from riots and ongoing violence in Wadeye, sources have told the NT Independent.
United Australia Party Senate candidate Raj Samson Rajwin has been using at least one fake Facebook profile to attack political rivals and named one apparently non-existent person as the Australian “president” of his “International Society of Human Development and Equality” organisation – a private company he runs as the sole director while claiming it is a charity.
The Litchfield Council will not say if it was the chief executive officer or a councillor who wrote a notice without motion for its January meeting overturning the Girraween Rd speed limit increase, but one resident who filed a freedom of information application on the matter, has said Mayor Doug Barden told him the former CEO wrote it, and gave it to councilor to propose as her own.
A woman drowned in a Girraween pool on Monday afternoon St John Ambulance have said.
About 300 people were involved in a “disturbance”, some fighting with weapons, in Wadeye on Sunday, with officers using chemicals to disperse them NT Police have said. But one police source has told the NT Independent allowing general duties officers to use CS gas is potentially dangerous.
The major parties are at cross purposes, while promoting less reliance on fossil fuel but also maintaining a currency reflective of a commodity whose market value will surely decrease as electric vehicle sales increase, writes Salvatore Finocchiaro
Former NT Police Acting Superintendent Renae McGarvie has been fined, along with three others, for entering a closed part of Kakadu National Park and requiring a helicopter rescue, Parks Australia has said, while NT Police refused to disclose whether disciplinary action was taken against Deputy Commissioner Murray Smalpage’s former staff officer.
An Independent Monitor’s report into McArthur River Mine’s environmental performance over the last year has divided opinion, with the mining company’s general manager and the government lauding findings that showed the river was in good health and that the company had minimised risks, while the Environment Centre NT called the report a “farce” with glaring holes in the risk assessment process.
Litchfield Council’s executive was warned by its insurer that the decision to increase the speed limit on Girraween Rd was possibly “negligent” and recommended a qualified engineer investigate road safety issues, causing council to backflip on the speed limit increase, internal council documents show.
A infant has died suddenly in Katherine, and their death is being investigated, NT Police have said.
Former Litchfield Council chief executive Daniel Fletcher told councillors he had a moral, ethical and professional obligation to report them to the NT Government for their decision to increase the speed limit on Girraween Rd earlier this year, informing them in a briefing note their decision was “unqualified’, “highly irresponsible”, and “deficient in adhering to good decision‐making principles”.
