Today’s national news includes the government introducing new legislation giving monetary experts more responsibility in setting interest rates, Australia starting sea and air patrols in the South China Sea, a top bureaucrat fired by PM Albanese over an influence probe, and climate protesters arrested at Australian coal port.
One man is still on the run after he broke into two bottle shops with another man in Leanyer, NT Police said.
The Northern Land Council has laid out its final submissions in a “$225 million” compensation claim against the NT government on behalf of the Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra peoples over the expansion of the McArthur River Mine, the media has reported.
Former Northern Territory Administrator and solicitor-general Tom Pauling has died.
A statement by Andrew Liveris in The Australian about Aboriginal missions is incorrect, and it was the introduction of the welfare state that was a disaster for Aboriginal people, not missions, writes Gerry Wood.
A man who tried to intervene in a service station break-in was hit with an axe after having fled to his car, while two men have been arrested over the assault and the burglary in Nightcliff on Thursday afternoon, NT Police said.
The remains of the so-called ‘baby in the post’ have been exhumed close to sixty years after his body was sent to the Darwin Post Office, the media has reported.
Today’s national news includes Foreign Minister Penny Wong reaffirming the government’s commitment to ensuring appropriate security checks are in place for the Palestinians granted Australian visas, Australia’s inflation of 5.4 per cent is within the government’s control, Origin’s top investor junks Brookfield’s revised $10.6 B bid, and Batik Air Malaysia and AirAsia are increasing connectivity between Malaysia and Australia.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has followed her predecessor and fled from the NT Independent at a press conference Wednesday morning, leaving in the government SUV so quickly that her media adviser was left standing in the road.
A man was stabbed in the leg on the Alice Springs Hospital lawns on Wednesday, allegedly by a relative, NT Police said.
Four teenagers have been arrested after allegedly using two stolen cars to ram raid a Darwin bottle shop and then attempt to ram police vehicles, before one car was stopped after police used tyre spikes on it twice during a pursuit, NT Police said.
Today’s national news includes the Northern Territory crime rate at a 10-year high, Superannuation fund Rest will invest $1 billion into Australian-owned renewable energy investor and developer Quinbrook, Australian federal government releases 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy, and Aussie workers missing out on $131 billion in unpaid overtime.
