The Finocchiaro CLP Government has extended its pepper spray for self-defence trial until December 31 as it plans to introduce legislation to provide permanent public access to the spray and expanding its use for teenagers and for “shared household use”.
A 39-year-old employee of the NT Department of Children and Families has been arrested and charged for allegedly using her position in the government to defraud the National Disability Insurance Scheme of millions of dollars.
A motion before Darwin Council calling on the NT Government to introduce a new tax on Territory Day fireworks has the support of the Mayor and at least one councillor who want to use the additional revenue to cover clean-up costs the day after cracker night, but the Chief Minister is not sold on the idea.
Three teenagers who allegedly smashed into the Gray Oval community facility in Palmerston early Sunday morning to steal alcohol have been arrested, with police recovering a wheelie bin from the oval loaded with the teens’ empties at the scene of their arrest.
A new three-year, $570,000 pilot program will aim to restore free-to-air television access in remote communities in the NT, the Finocchiaro CLP Government has pledged as part of its “restoring the Territory lifestyle” plans, which will involve lobbying the Federal Government and utilising technology to “retransmit digital television services” into homes that were lost following the 2013 nation-wide switch to digital television.
The cultural and historical significance of the Kulaluk Cemetery and its historic access route is being erased as the land leading to it is being developed, writes Sonja Pastor.
A 19-year-old man who was disqualified from driving and in breach of his bail conditions was allegedly caught driving a vehicle carrying 13 adult occupants, along with alcohol, NT Police said.
Beetaloo Digital, a subsidiary of Beetaloo Energy, has been given a commitment by the NT Government for 185 hectares of land at Weddell to develop a claimed $40 billion, two gigawatt AI data centre and energy mega-campus, which critics say is the latest glimpse of the Territory’s “dystopian future”, while the government has refused to explain if it has a plan for managing data centre development.
I paid for parking in Darwin but was fined after accidentally entering the wrong registration number, despite providing evidence of payment, Paul Castle writes.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged over a rollover involving an allegedly stolen vehicle in Katherine that killed a teenager and injured several others almost two months ago, NT Police said.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro says her government has the numbers to pass its voluntary assisted dying legislation, that ignored several key recommendations of its own review, with the bill to be introduced to Parliament tomorrow and expected to pass in August.
The CLP Government has passed controversial changes to child protection laws which it says will put safety first for all Territory children, but comes amid protests outside Parliament and an extraordinary rebuke from nearly every child protection minister in the country, while a Victorian Senator called for the Federal Government to intervene and override the legislative changes.
