Today’s national news includes Australia being pressured to resume Gaza aid funding, the new Tuvalu PM having first talks with PM Albanese, wine oversupply threatening industry and growers, and a severe heatwave continuing in Victoria and South Australia.
Three children who allegedly car-jacked a vehicle by threatening a couple with a knife, then robbed a service station with a knife, reported to police that they had the car forcibly stolen from them later in the night by another group of youths, NT Police said.
Four people have been arrested following a violent home invasion in Alice Springs where a group of men armed with knives allegedly held a knife to a 72-year-old woman’s throat while demanding cash, cigarettes and alcohol, NT Police said.
Two kids used a stolen ute to ram raid a tobacconist at Jape Homemaker Village on Monday morning, NT Police said.
A man has died after his ute collided with the back of a truck in Palmerston on Sunday, NT Police said.
A young man has died after he was thrown from the stolen ute he was in, when it rolled over in the Alice Springs CBD overnight, NT Police said.
Three teens and a 23-year-old were arrested yesterday by the dog squad after allegedly stealing dozens of bottles of wine and beer from Casuarina Square shopping centre, where the males allegedly threatened staff and attempted to flee on foot with a trolley full of their haul, NT Police said.
Today’s national news includes Australia and Vietnam strengthening bilateral relations; economy decelerating, underscoring case for rate cuts; ASIC penalising ASX, issuing infringement notice; and Virgin Australia planning to allow pets on board planes.
This week, Dustin’s brings you its newly arrived pearl silver 2017 Holden Commodore VF II MY17 Evoke Sport Wagon with a 6-cylinder petrol engine and a 6-speed sports automatic transmission.
Drug use in the NT is up by more than five percentage points with 25.2 per cent of Territorians using an illegal substance last year, compared to 19.6 per cent in 2019, with cannabis and hallucinogens leading the charge, a new study has found.
Mosquito repellents are being distributed and agencies are trying to disrupt breeding spots as high rainfall has lead to plague levels of the disease-carrying insects in Tennant Creek, the ABC has reported.
A man who robbed a service station with a knife rode off on a pushbike with a small number of items he stole, NT Police said.
