The CLP Government has announced the latest round of a grant program which provides up to $3 million to co-fund projects that improve exploration efforts, assist in discovering and developing resources, and add to “geoscientific knowledge gaps”, across the Territory.
Aerial surveys of green turtle nests showed a decline in nesting sites on Croker Island since the 1990s which has prompted further study of a range of species, a Charles Darwin University researcher has said.
Tourism NT has launched a national campaign to attract Australians to “road trip differently” in the Territory this year, which will see “paid media exposure” and a “unique promotion with Uber”, as well as “on-ground activations” at interstate caravan and camping shows.
A group of hikers who activated an emergency alert near Motor Car Falls, about 97 kilometres south of Jabiru on Sunday morning after becoming lost, have been rescued, NT Police said.
A tourist from the United States had her purse, passport, and bank cards stolen while she was in Alice Springs Hospital on Friday, NT Police said.
The development of a public document that records reported crimes and includes any court outcome, the monetary costs of repairs, along with other details, might help those criticising the government’s response to crime appreciate the alternative position to the one they hold, writes Henry Gray.
A 17-year-old on bail who allegedly stabbed his 16-year-old partner repeatedly in the legs and back in a remote community has been arrested and charged, NT Police said, while also calling for the public’s help with information about an unrelated indecent assault of multiple people in Darwin’s party district over the weekend.
An 18-year-old male was charged with drug and firearm-related offences by the NT Police on Friday, after a raid of his Katherine home yielded illegal drugs, firearms, ammunition and fireworks.
NT Corrections officers have delivered a resounding no-confidence vote in Commissioner Matthew Varley over moves to bring in private guards to deal with pressures in the corrections system, but the Minister has hit back at the union, saying the government will not be “strong-armed” into sacking Mr Varley, which comes amid resurfaced comments that show the CLP did not support outsourcing corrections duties while in opposition.
UPDATED: One of two teens who sparked national outrage for allegedly fracturing an eight-week-old baby’s skull during a mid-afternoon Alice Springs home invasion in December escaped custody yesterday afternoon, after reportedly being permitted to attend a funeral in Lajamanu, but was re-arrested on Thursday.
UPDATED: The Finocchiaro CLP Government will spend more than $8 million to build a motocross track at Hidden Valley, despite the project’s cost blowing out to five times the original estimate provided by Labor, stating it could not end a contract out of fear of “wasting millions”, so will “redirect” $6.5 million to fully fund the project.
Darwin-based construction company Kalidonis NT Pty Ltd is appealing convictions and fines imposed by the Darwin Local Court following the death of 50-year-old worker Paul Leach.
