EDITORIAL: In pursuing her defence of Brent Potter and his posts, our Chief Minister has demonstrated that nothing is off limits, no boundaries respected, and no consideration given to her role as the person ultimately responsible for upholding her government’s values and our community standards.
Clown Town: This week in Clown Town, the Lawler Government has drawn up a convenient list of the good Nazis and the bad Nazis for all, that sends us to wallow for another week in the misdeeds, malfeasance and asinine behaviour of our elected leaders and explore that sweet corruption-incompetence nexus that makes us all feel at home in the Great Territory Lifestyle.
Latest Business News highlights include a multi-rail corridor flagged that would include the NT, Santos awarding Darwin LNG project construction to UGL, and NT’s most awful suburbs for rental stress revealed. Also, making resource news is the Rinehart-backed Arafura mining company receiving $840 million in taxpayer aid for the NT project, and Core Lithium CEO quits amid downturn of battery metal prices.
A woman who broke into an Alice Springs house and pulled the resident from his wheelchair while robbing him, is still on the run, NT Police said.
Tourism NT has launched a campaign aimed at encouraging First Nations Territorians, young people and those living with a disability to work in local tourism.
A walk to remember Declan Laverty will be held at 4pm on Saturday afternoon at the Jingili Water Gardens – nearly one year since the 20-year-old was killed after being stabbed while working his shift at a Darwin bottleshop.
The Federal Government has pledged up to $840 million in loans and grants for a combined rare earths mine and refinery facility north of Alice Springs to be run by mineral exploration company Arafura, which the Federal Resources Minister said was “not corporate welfare” but rather an investment to create local jobs and “compete on the world stage” in rare earths.
This week, Dustin’s brings you its newly arrived blue 2022 Kia Carnival KA4 MY23 S with a 2.2-litre 4-cylinder diesel engine and an 8-speed sports automatic transmission.
Today’s national news includes China’s top diplomat visiting Australia, the Labor government wanting to ‘shut down’ nuclear debate, electricity prices ‘need to go down’ in Australia, and Prime Minister Albanese said he has no plan to copy a move by US legislators to ban TikTok.
NT Police were called to Mitchell Street on Thursday morning amid reports of an active shooter, which resulted in the temporary lockdown of Parliament House, before police determined there was no immediate threat to the public and that the report was likely false.
The Northern Land Council has announced the sudden departure of chief executive officer Joe Martin-Jard with no explanation, which comes in the same week as the election of a new council chair.
Core Lithium, whose Northern Territory mine has gone into recess, has announced a $167.6 million half-year loss, along with the departure of its chief executive Gareth Manderson and director Andrea Hall.
