The Darwin-Garramilla Shorebird Festival will be held for the fourth time at the end of this month, organiser Bird Life Top End has said.


The Darwin-Garramilla Shorebird Festival will be held for the fourth time at the end of this month, organiser Bird Life Top End has said.

An injured woman with “significant burns” to her head and chest was found early Monday morning in parkland in the Palmerston suburb of Gray, with NT Police calling for the public’s assistance to determine what happened.

NT Police have charged 13 people with more than 50 offences stemming from a series of alleged violent acts and property offences in Wadeye since the start of August, with details of three riots and some of the other alleged crimes still not made public.

A 60-year-old Fannie Bay man and a 75-year-old Gunn man were arrested as part of separate investigations into the online sexual exploitation of children, while a third person from Humpty Doo had their home raided and devices seized for further investigation, NT Police said.

A man has been charged after allegedly hitting his female partner in the face before repeatedly stabbing her with a pair of scissors in her head, body and both arms, NT Police said.

A 28-year-old man has suffered a suspected punctured lung after being shot in the chest with an arrow in Wadeye early Thursday morning, NT Police said.

The NT’s two major political parties will be sweating on Monday night when three generations of the Territory’s independent MLAs meet for a public panel discussion about what independents can achieve in Parliament and what voters fed up with current politicians following their parties’ interests instead of the interests of the people can do to bring about change.

An inmate who escaped from the Holtze Youth Prison yesterday remains on the run, with NT Police appealing to the public for help to locate them.

NT Police are investigating the death of a 35-year-old male prisoner in the Alice Springs Prison yesterday afternoon.

Mining and Energy Minister Gerard Maley did not publicly disclose that his sister-in-law works for the company he and his government colleagues helped arrange a special land deal for that could see a massive data centre in the Darwin rural area built, the ABC reported Tuesday, while the Chief Minister has remained silent over the failure to publicly disclose.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation NT boss Heidi Crisp has been elected unopposed as the Unions NT president.

NT Police are investigating multiple armed disturbances in Ngukurr over the weekend that saw a 14-year-old boy airlifted out of the community Saturday afternoon after being speared in the back, police said.