Latest highlights include the Chief Minister visiting Japan for economic talks and signing an agreement with Inpex, the NT Government announcing a sustainable agriculture blueprint for the region, and Telstra’s Best of Business Awards announcing NT finalists. Also making resource news is Core Lithium Increases Finniss Project Reserves increasing by 42 per cent.
More than 2100 alcohol and drug road tests were administered in Alice Springs over the past week as part of an extensive police traffic blitz during the Red Centre Nats weekend that resulted in dozens of traffic charges, 160 speeding fines issued and five vehicles seized for hooning offences, NT Police said.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro is on her way to Japan today to discuss the Territory’s “strategic and economic partnerships with Japan”, which it appears will focus on gas and mining with private companies, while details of who in the Japanese Government she is meeting with to directly discuss increasing the presence of Japanese forces in the NT was not disclosed.
Hospital patients will soon be able to experience Kakadu and Litchfield national parks as part of a 360-degree virtual reality experience from the Holiday from Hospital program created by the Chimera Legacy Foundation.
Kon Vatskalis has dug his heels in following the NT Electoral Commission declaring Peter Styles the next Lord Mayor of Darwin on Saturday, writing on social media Sunday morning that he “will not accept the result as real and/or fair” while questions remain over alleged electoral fraud involving fake how-to-vote cards delivered to polling centres by Mr Styles’s wife.
A new 220-student special education secondary school will be built in Palmerston at a cost of $110 million, the Finocchiaro Government has announced.
The frontman of famed Australian pub band the Painters & Dockers Paulie Stewart will speak in Darwin this month, sharing stories from his memoir, tracing his journey from the murder of his brother Tony Stewart, one of the Balibo Five, to a lifetime of music and advocacy.
A 58-year-old man who suffered serious head injuries in Katherine on Saturday night was found Sunday afternoon in the same location, with NT Police calling for the public’s help to determine how the man was injured so badly he needed to be airlifted to Darwin for treatment.
A 36-year-old unlicensed man who was allegedly driving dangerously around Leanyer on Thursday afternoon while high on meth was apprehended by a police dog after attempting to flee police on foot, NT Police said.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government says it will permanently tear out the vines at the Cavanagh Street shade structure, but will not replace them, stating the structure will remain with new lights installed to create a “modern, ambient streetscape”, while not providing any costs for the new project.
Darwin’s new international standard motocross grand prix track has been finished, costing at least five times what the former Labor Government estimated it would, with the Motocross Grand Prix of Australia to be held there in two weeks.
The NT Government has scrapped the requirement to have certain tenders reviewed by a panel in an effort it says is to streamline “direct purchasing from Territory enterprises” despite previous concerns from the Buy Local Advocate and industry that government spending was not hitting intended local targets in part due to the lack of data about government contracts.
