The Fyles Government has introduced a school bus service in the Barkly region for the first time amid the fallout of national reporting of its failings to provide a proper education in remote communities, with the Opposition saying the new bus service does not go far enough to address chronic poor attendance rates in the region.
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the sexual abuse of children has visited the Northern Territory as part of her nationwide investigation, which comes amid rising crimes against Territory kids that reportedly jumped by 22 per cent last year, but the total figures have been withheld from the public by the NT Government.
A 42-year-old Humpty Doo man allegedly threatened the occupants of a rural property with a loaded gun on Tuesday night because he was angry about a Facebook post “regarding dogs wandering into yards”, NT Police have said.
Police are calling for information regarding three stolen vehicles in Alice Springs which they said were being driven dangerously around town last night with the occupants allegedly throwing rocks at citizens and the police, while also trying to ram police vehicles.
Today’s national news includes Optus outage hitting businesses and the economy, mutton prices dropping by 75 per cent, Starbucks posting its first profit in Australia, and the driest October weather recorded since 2002.
A 45-year-old man from an unspecified “Daly River Region community” has handed himself into police in connection to a hit-and-run in Parap on Friday morning that left an unregistered car overturned and a cyclist seriously injured, NT Police said.
The second annual ‘A Very Darwin Christmas Pageant’ is back with a longer route to be traversed by at least 40 floats, and expected to be enjoyed by thousands of revellers, organisers said.
NT Police are searching for a firearm they allege was stolen from a vehicle in a carpark near the intersection of Standley Street and Paterson Street in Tennant Creek on Monday.
Former top public servant Frank Daly’s quiet departure as head of the Department of Chief Minister needs to be explained to the public and the public service, the Opposition CLP says, while asking if it’s another “bungled sacking” by the Chief Minister.
Today’s national news includes a high-level US delegation arriving in Australia to discuss the AUKUS deal, PM Albanese cautioned on embarking on a solidarity visit to Israel, the Reserve Bank of Australia raising rates to 12-year high, and Australia being offered evolved, up-armed hunter-class frigates.
A man has been charged with murder over the death of his father at a Moil home on Saturday, NT Police said.
The NT Independent has won another NT Media Award, this time for Best Crime/Court reporting in the “all media” category, beating out Sky News and the ABC, marking the second win in this category in three years and the fourth gong for the online newspaper since starting in March 2020.
