Latest highlights include Tamboran’s drilling at Shenandoah South being billed as crucial to future investments at the Beetaloo sub-basin; People First Bank permanently shuts down its NT office; and Territory Wildlife Park gets new electric trains. Also making resource news is New Frontier Minerals prioritising drilling at Harts Range.
The CLP Government will invest $36 million annually to fund domestic, family, and sexual violence support services, the Minister has announced, adding the funding will go beyond the five-year election commitment to further support those affected across the Territory, as rates of domestic violence continue to soar.
A 14-year-old boy has been charged for stealing a vehicle in Alice Springs after handing himself into the police station, NT Police said.
Independent candidate for Solomon Phil Scott launched his federal election campaign in Darwin on Monday night, flanked by more than 200 supporters, calling his nomination “an alternative for voters” who are sick of party politics as usual.
The Finocchiaro Government has scrapped the proposed treaty with Indigenous Territorians saying it will focus on local government reform instead, with independent MLA and Yolŋu traditional owner Yiŋiya Guyula saying the move was “saddening” and “ignorant”, the ABC has reported.
A single-vehicle rollover that resulted in nine individuals being hospitalised with head injuries and fractures south of Tipperary Station on Saturday night is currently under investigation, NT Police said, with a five-year-old girl suffering a serious head injury.
A five-year-old boy from an unnamed remote community was allegedly raped by a 19-year-old male relative, with the teen scheduled to appear in Darwin Local Court today, NT Police said.
The federal and NT governments and the Aboriginal Peak Organisations have reached a new funding agreement all say will enhance service delivery in remote First Nations communities.
Today’s national news includes Australia enacting ‘disputed’ legislation on hate crimes, Australia making an initial $500 million AUKUS payment, Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the US engaging in a multinational maritime cooperation exercise, and hot nights anticipated in southern Australian states.
The Territory’s hospitals will get a one-off cash injection of $51 million this year as part of the Albanese Labor Government’s national funding boost, which the government said was done to strengthen Medicare and support public hospitals.
A 25-year-old woman was arrested at the Casuarina bus interchange Wednesday afternoon after she allegedly threw objects at people and threatened bus workers with an edged weapon, NT Police said, before later allegedly spitting at and kicking police officers.
A 14-year-old girl has been charged with aggravated robbery and being armed with offensive weapon at night after she allegedly broke into an Alice Springs house and threatened the occupant, NT Police said.
