Latest business news highlights include a First Nations-led carbon forestry project attracting $81 million in investments, NEXTDC advancing its $120 million data centre project in Darwin, the Aboriginal Tourism Business Accelerator Program kicks off with a new cohort, and a $49.5 million contract awarded for another section of the Tanami Road upgrade.
A woman suffering “visible head injuries” is in hospital in a serious condition after being struck by a car in Tennant Creek this morning, with two men in their 20s later arrested, NT Police said.
A 15-year-old male has been arrested in connection to the alleged assault of a female staff member at Tennant Creek High School on Monday, NT Police said.
A 30-year-old man was arrested Sunday morning with an “edged weapon” in his possession after he allegedly approached a woman heading to her car in an underground car park at a Palmerston shopping centre before assaulting her while trying to take her car, NT Police said.
EDITORIAL: David Connolly made the whole affair worse on Friday morning in his first speech as Administrator with his condescending attitude while his supporters surely cringed when he attempted to speak in language and talked about his great and deep respect for Indigenous culture. We all knew it was a lie, which made it all the more grotesque.
As Charles Darwin University launches a duplicated medical program amid mounting losses and large debt, and in the wake of a widening training scandal involving the carpentry apprenticeship which saw the vice-chancellor resign leading to a possible class action, there are serious concerns that both the executive leadership and the university council have failed in their oversight of the institution, writes Dr Don Fuller.
An NT Police auxiliary officer has been suspended with pay after being charged with obtaining a financial benefit by deception, police said in a statement.
UPDATED: An NT Police officer fired three shots at a Mazda ute that was being driven towards him and a police vehicle at considerable speed in Alice Springs overnight, a video released by police shows, with 10 charges now laid against the 38-year-old driver. WATCH THE VIDEO
WIN Network has moved to acquire Nine Entertainment’s Darwin television station, heralded by WIN as expanding its presence into the Northern Territory through the “vibrant” Darwin market, which comes just over a year after Nine suddenly axed its Darwin news bulletin and sacked staff.
NT public doctors have rejected a four-year pay offer from the Finocchiaro Government which was less than the increase given to public servant generally and police officers, with 82 per cent of those who voted, voting against it, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation has said.
The Attorney-General should reject the inclusion of a fixed prognostic timeframe in the Northern Territory’s proposed voluntary assisted dying laws former chief minister Marshall Perron writes, arguing it would unnecessarily exclude suffering patients and undermine a more compassionate, evidence-based approach.
The Northern Territory now has two medical schools, but with an existing, successful partnership already in place, Dr Don Fuller argues that the new Charles Darwin University-Menzies program is an expensive exercise in duplication and may create an unstated incentive to enrol more full-fee paying international students rather that training Territorians, particularly Indigenous Territorians.
