The Northern Territory will see “up to” $1 billion in additional federal health funding over the next five years, the Chief Minister has said, following the signing of a new funding agreement with the Prime Minister on Friday heralded by both sides as a “historic deal”, but that funding will “only keep the lights on” here, says the Australian Medical Association NT.
The Royal Australian Air Force has officially opened the new $355.7 million MQ-4C Triton facilities at RAAF Base Tindal that the government says will strengthen a Defence cooperation program with the US Navy and enhance Australia’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities across the north.
Millions of Australians are failing to act on their hearing health in favour of other health check-ups, despite troubling side effects that can affect their quality of life, including social withdrawal, listening fatigue and cognitive strain, Hearing Australia has warned.
Queensland-based not-for-profit Ozcare will build and operate the new $60 million aged care facility in Palmerston, providing 120 to 150 residential beds to alleviate “bed block” in local hospitals, the Prime Minister announced yesterday in Darwin, but it could still be two to three years before the much-needed facility is operational.
The owners of the Yeperenye Shopping Centre in Alice Springs are planning a $27 million redevelopment of the facility, which will include a new supermarket tenant, and a rooftop restaurant.
A 16-year-old male has been released from custody with no charges after he was arrested early Sunday morning in connection to an incident involving a male allegedly entering an Alice Springs home and attempting to indecently assault a female inside, NT Police said.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has mandated that all 152 NT public schools must play and sing the national anthem at assemblies and special events, which Education Minister Jo Hersey said was necessary to “restore national pride”.
The NT Centre for Disease Control has issued urgent alerts for residents and visitors to remain vigilant against melioidosis, following an increase in cases of the soil-borne disease amid recent wet weather in the Top End.
OPINION: Wasteful and scandal ridden Darwin projects such as the Ship Lift and the Waterfront give politicians in the Top End city the ability to claim credit for such developments and enable mates and political supporters to be paid off by an inappropriate and extravagant use of tax-payer funding, while tourism in Central Australia declines, Dr Don Fuller writes.
Dunblane Primary School massacre survivor and former Bondi Beach resident John Phillip writes that legislative changes to lawful firearms ownership risks undermining legitimate, culturally embedded, practical, and legal uses of guns in the Northern Territory.
Youths allegedly committed three different lots of property damage in Katherine, including damaging a service station, smashing a house window, and damaging two cars, with police investigating if they were committed by the same group.
Variety NT’s Tania Sellers says the organisers want to get 500 vehicles in convoy in the Australia Day Ute Run to celebrate the event’s 25th anniversary.
