Today’s national news includes 3.7 million households facing food insecurity, PM Albanese flying off to Washington for security alliance meetings, Microsoft spending $3.2 billion as AI regulation comes out, and the Red meat industry posts a $7.7 billion lift in annual turnover.
Casino and gaming executive Sean Knights has been appointed general manager of Mindil Beach Casino and Resort, having recently left his previously job as executive general manager at Crown Sydney.
The Morandini Group has submitted plans to construct a $20 million golf complex off Lee Point Road in Darwin’s northern suburbs that it said will boost tourism and provide economic stimulus to the region.
Darwin’s Fannie Bay shopping centre has been sold to the Lay family for $17.8 million after being held by Territory investor Terry Finocchiaro for more than four decades.
Highlights this week include Tamboran Resources urged to pay back a $7.5 million subsidy after looking to move its head office, Core Lithium upgrades MRE BP33 in NT, Falcon Oil & Gas concludes drilling procedure in Beetaloo sub-basin, and DevEx ups exploration funds through share placement and entitlement offer.
A stolen ute was used to ram raid two Alice Springs businesses, and was later driven dangerously around the CBD with occupants throwing “objects” at police officers, NT Police said.
The speed limit for majority of Darwin CBD streets will drop to 40km/h from November 1, Darwin Council has said.
A 38-year-old driver who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash in Howard Springs on Tuesday is now facing multiple charges, including hit-and-run causing death, NT Police said.
UPDATED: The Federal Labor Government will not vary or cancel Landbridge’s now 91-year lease of the Darwin Port, following a review into the controversial 2015 deal.
Three people involved in assaults on two security guards, as well as pulling an edged weapon on a third guard, and throwing an edged weapon at a fourth, are on the run after the attacks at a Darwin Shopping Centre on Friday afternoon, NT Police said while declaring the offenders were no longer a danger to the public at the shopping centre.
Today’s national news includes PM Albanese visiting China to try to resolve trade issues, the high cost of power impacting small businesses in South Australia, total fire ban put in place for parts of New South Wales, and fresh fallout from the Voice referendum has Indigenous leaders divided.
A woman has died in hospital following a single vehicle crash in Larapinta on Sunday, NT Police said.
