A Sydney man has been charged in relation to an alleged $3.5 million rort of an NT Government department through a corporate email fraud that fooled NT public servants, after he allegedly emailed them claiming to be from an established construction company but asking to change that company’s bank account details for the next payment.
NT Police are searching for a man wearing “open-toe fluffy slippers” and no pants who allegedly performed an indecent act while chasing a woman on a run in Alice Springs on Monday afternoon.
Tamboran Resource’s long-serving CEO and managing director Joel Riddle has suddenly “stepped down” from his roles, the company said in a surprise announcement on Monday, with the chair of the board appointed interim CEO amid reported financial problems and other challenges facing the company.
UPDATED: A 15-year-old is in police custody and has been charged after allegedly stabbing another teen at the Royal Darwin Show on Saturday night in front of dozens of show-goers, with the victim rushed to hospital in a “serious condition”, NT Police said.
The NT Centre for Disease Control has issued a measles alert following the hospitalisation of a man in north Queensland who visited numerous tourist attractions in the NT earlier this month.
A 23-year-old man has died in a head-on collision involving a Honda CRV and a road train on Sunday afternoon, 14 km north of Katherine on the Stuart Highway, NT Police said.
The ‘girls and boys from the bush’ who are our politicians have bought far too much gas for electricity generation at far too high a price, which could increase costs to the Territory by $300 million per year, while Beetaloo Basin gas could be too expensive to attract local manufacturing, and too expensive to send to the east coast, writes Dr Don Fuller.
NT Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby has attacked the acting CEO of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency for criticising the inhumane conditions inside the Palmerston watch house and calling for the Federal Government to suspend funding police in remote communities until the NT Government meets with Aboriginal leaders to discuss ongoing crime issues, labelling the calls “irresponsible” and “absurd”.
Four teens have been arrested and another is on the run after a night of chaos through Darwin’s northern suburbs, that started with a car-jacking at knife point, followed by a ram raid of a bottle shop and police later having to abandon a high-speed chase down Tiger Brennan Drive after the teens “attempted to ram” a police vehicle, NT Police said.
A group of four youths are on the run after throwing rocks at an 84-year-old man and his vehicle after he refused to give them a lift Tuesday morning, NT Police said, ultimately stealing his Hilux and assaulting him.
The NT Government’s move to scrap middle schools in favour of new “comprehensive” high schools will start in Darwin and Palmerston by next year, the Education Minister has pledged, with Alice Springs scheduled to come on line in 2027, while the changes come amid an ongoing teacher shortage.
UPDATED: An 18-year-old woman was airlifted to Royal Darwin Hospital on Sunday afternoon after being stabbed in the head with a spear, NT Police said, with the alleged 21-year-old male offender who is known to her arrested after initially going on the run.
