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.

The Gold Coast Suns are trying to get out of the $2 million a year deal it signed with the Northern Territory Government to play two matches in Darwin, a new report suggests, but the claim has been dismissed by the club’s chair who also said the team would be reviewing how many games they play in the city after 2026.

A Corrections officer whose two-month-old baby was left with a fractured skull and a brain bleed after a violent home invasion was not told by his superiors that the alleged offender was being transferred to Alice Springs Prison where he works, the United Workers Union has said.

The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education’s chief executive officer Joe Martin-Jard will leave the job roughly 14 months after he started, while his deputy has been directly appointed to take over from him in a “succession plan”, despite the Office of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption previously warning the organisation against direct appointments of staff without a selection process.

The Finocchiaro Government has been “pathetic” and “appalling” by introducing overtly racist policies, the Northern Land Council chair has said, adding government spending on Indigenous disadvantage should be audited, while all four land councils have called for an independent inquiry into structural racism in NT Police, an independent body to investigate police misconduct, and a better policing model for remote communities.

Retired and other former NT firefighters say they are missing out on decades-worth of back-paid overtime because the government is imposing a six-year statute of limitations on payouts, following a Fair Work Commission ruling in their favour last year, a limitation the former firefighters say is not being imposed on still-serving firefighters and other NT public servants. But the government says its actions are compliant with the FWC decision.