Officers in two more Territory police regions have voted for the Northern Territory Police Association to hold a Territory-wide vote of confidence in Commissioner Jamie Chalker and Deputy Commissioner Murray Smalpage, sources have told the NT Independent.
The NT Police have continued to suppress information about violence in Wadeye, issuing a press release an hour and a half after the NT Independent sent questions about the ongoing rioting, but which lacked vital information about bloodshed in the community and why the Territory Response Group had not been sent in to restore safety.
A man has been killed after being speared in the head, health clinic staff have been seriously injured, police officers have been told not to leave the station compound, and 36 houses have been set on fire during ongoing violence largely not made public by NT Police and the Gunner Government, sources have told the NT Independent.
NT Police officers in Alice Springs have voted to force the NT Police Association to hold a Territory-wide vote of confidence in Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker, sources have told the NT Independent.
ANALYSIS: The Gunner Government has announced it will release a $145 million tender to design and build the next part of the State Square project, with federal government figures showing close to $200 million in Territory Government money could be spent in total, for what original figures estimated to be a roughly $20 million project when it was first announced in the middle of 2017.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered the Northern Territory Government to pay a worker what could be more than $40,000 in back-payed higher duties allowances.
Darwin Council will seek money from the private sector to develop the Lameroo baths after failing to get $150 million in Federal Government funding Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis has said.
ANALYSIS: In a respectable jurisdiction, those in positions of public trust currently under investigation for the decision to charge Constable Zach Rolfe would realise they are only caretakers of those crucial positions and stand aside while the investigation is underway. But not in the NT, as we grapple with a confusing and hopelessly compromised situation.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker and other executives gave instructions for Constable Zach Rolfe to be charged in Darwin if any charges were to proceed, police notes show, marking the fifth instance of documented evidence showing the top cop’s involvement across all four days following the Yuendumu shooting and further contradicting Mr Chalker’s claim he was not involved in the process to charge.
NT public servants had until Wednesday to prove they had received their third COVID-19 vaccination, would get it, or had an exemption, despite the chief health officer’s direction allowing until April 22 for boosters, and came on the same day as South Australia announced unvaccinated teachers, public transport workers and taxi drivers could return to work.
The Director of Public Prosecutions took no longer than 90 minutes to recommend a murder charge for Constable Zachary Rolfe after being provided an unfinished brief of evidence, in a meeting held just before Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker and other executives decided to arrest and charge the officer, police diary notes reveal.
The company behind the Project Sea Dragon prawn farm venture have told investors the project will be set back years after a review found the current proposal carried “unacceptable risk”, including that it was not financially viable, and may not proceed in any from unless it can prove a 10 hectare pilot project is viable, a financial publication has reported.
