A government briefing recommending potential prosecution against Empire Energy for breaching the company’s environmental management plan concerning a gas well in the Beetaloo Basin was suddenly dropped, the Environment Department’s chief executive has said, after an unnamed person in the Mining and Energy Department decided there was no breach of the Petroleum Act.
St John Ambulance NT has written to staff claiming the emergency road ambulance portion of the government contract is not going out to tender, only the patient transfer portion, but the Health Minister and Health Department have refused to clarify, a situation which follows revelations the Major Crime Squad investigated the death of one of the charity’s patients and an alleged cover-up by management earlier this year.
The Jovi Boys gang and their associates ram-raided the Peppimenarti Social Club gates, injuring a woman before ransacking the premises while patrons and staff secured themselves in a store room late last month, however NT Police did not attend until two days later, and will not say why the attack was not made public.
An off-duty NT Corrections officer who was returning home from a fundraiser for another officer who lost his eye last month in an attack at Holtze Prison, had his face slashed by an unknown offender late Saturday night after refusing demands for cigarettes and money, a union official has confirmed.
A mysterious warning that new direct flights between Darwin and Kuala Lumpur with AirAsia are subject to “gaining government approval” is not a result of NT Government regulations, the CLP Government has said.
EXCLUSIVE: The death of a man who was treated by St John Ambulance in 2021 has recently been investigated by the NT Police Major Crime Squad, including allegations the patient’s records were altered to cover up treatment failures, with the matter now referred back to the Coroner, the NT Independent can reveal.
St John Ambulance NT last week told paramedics it was ceasing two emergency procedures, roughly a year after a damning independent review into its medical treatments called for the procedures to be ended until a medical director was employed, with the report also finding multiple failures and poor decisions resulted in harm to patients and significant risk to staff.
The Kalymnian Brotherhood says it intends to defy a Health Department order to destroy two tonnes of octopus which it deemed “unsuitable for consumption”, saying the claims were the result of “sabotage” against them by an unknown third party, and that there is nothing wrong with its stock of eight-armed marine mollusks, as the Glenti Festival kicks off this weekend.
The Prime Minister’s Office has no record of correspondence with Darwin Council about why Anthony Albanese allegedly cancelled a trip to attend the council’s ‘VIP’ unveiling ceremony of the controversial Cyclone Tracy memorial sculpture late last year, a Freedom of Information response indicates, despite Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis having claimed he cancelled the event because the Prime Minister could not make it.
A St John Ambulance NT executive was allowed to drive one of the charity’s emergency response vehicles on holiday to Adelaide, with the organisation claiming he paid his own fuel interstate, but the move has annoyed some who say St John has a shortage of response vehicles and follows an audit of its spending last year.
The Finocchiaro Government has rejected a presumption in favour of NT public servants working from home, as well as the removal of a cap on the amount of days they can spend working from home, the Community and Public Sector Union has said, while Public Service Minister Jo Hersey said the government would not reduce the existing flexible work arrangements, but would not say what its work from home policy was.
Environment Minister Joshua Burgoyne said he has not been provided a legal briefing that recommended prosecution against Empire Energy and has not asked to see it, while his department has since decided the company did nothing wrong in relation to one of the alleged offences, but will not provide any details of what it is the company was involved in.
