Charles Darwin University has missed out on funding to train 40 medical students in a proposed new medical school which was announced in November 2021, but has instead been given $2.8 million by the federal government to seek the accreditation required to establish the medical school.
Ninety per cent of incoming emergency patients to NT hospitals are waiting up to 161 minutes to be seen by medical staff – up from 134 minutes last year – against the national median wait time of just 20 minutes, according to new data from the Australian Institute of Health.
Three teenagers were arrested and two “people” are still on the run after police stopped their stolen car using tyre spikes, NT Police said, while two teens and a 12-year-old were arrested and returned to “responsible adults” after also being stopped in a stolen car after two sets of tyre spikes were deployed.
At least four people are on the run after committing one of two break-ins of licensed businesses in Darwin, NT Police told the media.
A Territory refrigeration worker suffered burn injuries and was nearly electrocuted while cleaning a newly installed chiller’s electrical cubicle with still-live cables, according to a preliminary NT WorkSafe investigation.
Highlights this week include Tamboran starting stimulation activities in the Beetaloo Basin, Lucapa Diamond puts its Merlin project on hold, Rio Tinto starts recycling steel from its Gove refinery site, and Arafura Rare Earths receives financial support from the Export-Import Bank of Korea for its Nolans Project.
Today’s national news includes RBA seen to hold rates steady until February, Australia participates in Japan’s Exercise Yama Sakura, Australia’s Woodside Energy signs 20-year LNG deal with Mexico Pacific, and Director-General of National Intelligence Andrew Shearer reveals the development of a “top secret” intelligence cloud network.
Australia’s first airport resort hotel will open to the public today, following the massive $30 million integration and expansion of the Novotel and Mercure hotels at the Darwin Airport.
NT Police are calling for the public’s help to identify a male who allegedly entered a home on Van Senden Avenue in Alice Springs Monday morning, just before 9am, where he allegedly sexually assaulted an adult female.
A 12-year-old boy allegedly rammed a car occupied by two security guards with a stolen 4WD in Alice Springs, attempted to ram a police car, then hit another police car, before being stopped with tyre spikes, NT Police said.
A 15-year-old boy has died and two others were injured in a single-vehicle crash along a stretch of Stuart Highway near Coolalinga at 12:15 am on Sunday, NT Police said.
EDITORIAL: The Opposition CLP has failed to do its job this week in Parliament, which won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been observing NT politics for any amount of time, but their latest failure raises troubling questions about our democratic institutions and who is actually protecting and defending them.
