Treasurer Bill Yan is taking the crumbling Territory economy on the road through the NT next week – with special guest Under Treasurer Tim McManus – in an effort to explain to Territorians how the CLP Finocchiaro Government is planning “to fix the economic mess”.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has called for more “accountability” from major airlines after Virgin Australia indefinitely suspended its direct flights between Darwin and Adelaide during the upcoming tourism season.
Latest highlights include the government aiming to get more local businesses benefiting from increased military presence in the NT, and Santos projecting increased production amid its NT expansion plans; meanwhile making resource news is SQM investing in a new NT lithium project, New Frontier starting a geophysical survey at Harts Range, and Merlin Project revealing promising base metal targets.
Despite improving retail spending and rising equipment investment, CommSec’s State of the States report reveals that the Northern Territory remains firmly recognised as the country’s worst-performing economy, ranking eighth out of eight once again.
Three teenagers were arrested after allegedly trying to break into an Alice Springs supermarket with an angle grinder, which woke up the neighbours who called the police, NT Police said.
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after he allegedly broke into a house in Tennant Creek and choked an 85-year-old man and then tried to hit him with a frying pan, NT Police said.
The Lock the Gate Alliance is challenging the NT Government’s approval of Empire Energy’s Larrimah fracking exploration project in the NT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the environmental organisation has said.
Today’s national news includes Australia Day, celebrated across the country; Murdoch’s News Corp misleads Parliament; it could face legal action; temperatures are soaring across Australia; and consumers are tipping more amid escalating prices.
Australia’s most endangered bird of prey, the red goshawk, has been spotted in Central Australia for the first confirmed time in three decades after an ecologist spotted the bird at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary west of Alice Springs.
A stolen Mercedes motorhome discovered in a Darwin CBD street with ammunition inside led NT Police to uncovering meth, a fake firearm and stolen IDs and bank cards belonging to more than 50 victims.
When their dog Princess Evie died last year, Anitra Jackson and her partner Dean used the tragedy to campaign for new regulations for the pet boarding industry in the Northern Territory, to ensure the safety and well-being of all pets being cared for.
Channel 9 has axed Darwin’s local nightly bulletin with some staff sacked and others possibly “redeployed” to other areas of the company in a shock move.
