Four youths broke into a Berrimah business and stole mobility scooters which they rode about 10km to East Arm where they broke into other businesses, NT Police said, while in another incident a Good Samaritan had his car stolen after stopping to help some youths who were trying to change a tyre on a stolen car.
An 81-year-old woman was robbed at knifepoint by a group of three youths, which included a seven-year-old boy, while five youths were arrested after a series of robberies in the Darwin CBD, NT Police said.
An armed man allegedly attempted to enter the Alice Springs Hospital over the weekend, forcing hospital workers to barricade themselves inside while waiting more than for 40 minutes for the police to arrive, exposing the NT Government’s lack of “code black” data in hospitals, the Opposition CLP says, and causing safety fears.
The NT Government has announced a second large scale battery storage project for the Darwin-Katherine power grid before the first batteries have been tested, which are expected to be running by the end of the year the Chief Minister says.
Latest highlights include a new “heli-foraging” outing for tourists to search for “botanicals”, as well as Darwin Council offering free accessibility seminars for small businesses, plus resource news.
Urban Rampage has been ordered by the national corporate regulator to stop customers on welfare paying through a federal government credit scheme, with the agency saying the company targets welfare recipients living in remote Aboriginal communities, and more than 5,000 customers had signed up at the Alice Springs store alone.
Today’s national news includes Australians waiting for the RBA decision on the interest rate, Australia and Indonesia teaming up for battery supply chains, PM Albanese launching a $2 billion fund to boost trade with Asia, and Western Sydney International Airport operating a digitised aerodrome.
A group of native titleholders are appealing the NT Supreme Court’s decision supporting the government granting a water licence at Singleton Station, arguing the licence was a risk to Aboriginal culture and land, the Central Land Council has said.
Let’s 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.
Today’s national news includes Turkish Airlines debuts in Australia, the Philippine President visits Australia to strengthen ties, WA becomes the first state to ban non-compostable takeaway coffee cups, and Australia approves a record low number of student visas.
The Lawler Government has agreed with a recommendation from a review of the Territory’s secondary school system to scrap middle schools across the NT, and rolling them into high schools.
A man died after a collision between two cars in Alice Springs on Wednesday night, with alcohol and distraction believed to have contributed to the crash, NT Police said.
