Today’s national news includes Voice to Parliament will be ‘very good’ for Australia, Australia accused by France of menacing NATO relationship, Repairing and reusing products as a new norm amid rising inflation, and Virgin Australia and Sri Lankan Airlines entering an interline agreement.
A 24-year-old man who allegedly raped a woman near the Darwin bus exchange on Thursday afternoon was on the loose for hours without the public being informed, before he was finally apprehended by police at Casuarina last evening, NT Police said.
Investigations are ongoing into the deadly Stuart Highway crash that killed six people, including an infant, in the worst road crash the Territory has seen in over 15 years, NT Police said.
NT WorkSafe has dropped industrial manslaughter charges and lesser charges against Theofilos Kalidonis, director of Kalidonis NT Pty Ltd, three years after a workplace fatality in Maningrida.
Roughly 2,000 public servants are still in a state of uncertainty after the NT Government continues to stall on approving the funds for their backpay despite an agreement having been settled with the workers, the union representing the workers says.
Check out Dustin’s recently arrived Grey 2017 Ford Mustang FM 2017MY GT Fastback that comes with a six-speed manual transmission. This muscle car has an eight-cylinder five-litre premium petrol engine with an odometer reading of 58,777 km.
A man has survived after he was hit by a car and thrown up to 20 metres through the air and off the Channel Island bridge, landing on the rocks below, the media has reported.
Fortescue Energy has laid off all its NT staff members except former chief minister Michael Gunner who appears to have been promoted in the quiet shake-up to “director of business development in Australia and New Zealand”.
Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison will be flying overseas on a taxpayer-funded trade mission to India soon, the state media reported, but provided no estimated costs for the voyage.
Today’s national news includes China warning Australia about a ‘provocative’ Taiwan visit, the military to reinforce the northeastern coast due to Indo-Pacific tensions, Australia and France signing a treaty on critical minerals supply chains, and the Philippines and Australia joining hands in restoring coral reefs in the West Philippine Sea.
Labor MP Marion Scrymgour is calling for urgent attention to address the rise in illegal drug use in remote areas, which she said has recently resulted in multiple suicides on the Tiwi Islands.
Hundreds of Territorians took part in a day of action across the NT on Tuesday, calling on the government to properly fund domestic and family violence services, a month after it was revealed the Fyles Government had only funded $20 million of the required $180 million requested by the sector.
