Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro says Darwin council has the money to undertake this year’s pre-cyclone clean-up collection service and has “failed its constituency” by cancelling it, adding councillors should be made to answer to voters for their “questionable decision”, while the City of Palmerston is moving ahead with its clean-up.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government will not hold full and independent investigations into Charles Darwin University and the Batchelor Institute following recent scandals at both institutions that saw millions in public funds wasted and has instead pledged to “get better outcomes” for apprentices and trainees by implementing key performance indicators at the institutions.
NT Business and Asian Relations Minister Robyn Cahill will lead a delegation to Vietnam this week with representatives from numerous local education providers including CDU, Alana Kaye College and Haileybury Rendall School, which she said will “strengthen ties” with the one-party authoritarian state and comes the same day the Vietnamese president was in Canberra to strengthen economic ties with the Commonwealth.
Alice Springs Town Council has launched the ‘myTodd Mall’ buy-local voucher program to support small businesses and attract customers amid ongoing construction disruptions that will see customers earn vouchers depending on how much they spend at participating businesses.
NT Police are calling for anyone in Katherine with video of last Thursday’s dangerous driving incident that saw up to seven youths tear around town in a stolen vehicle to contact them, as police seek to “actively identify and locate the remaining youths involved” after arresting two youths over the weekend.
Darwin Council has scrapped its annual pre-cyclone clean-up collection service this year which it says is due to “significant operational impacts of Cyclone Fina” that hit the city last November, with Mayor Peter Styles telling residents to rent trailers or call a “mate with a ute” to take their own hard waste to the tip this year.
All households in the NT are being urged to complete and submit their census forms in advance of Census night on Tuesday, August 11, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says, with daily fines of $364 issued for repeated noncompliance.
EDITORIAL: We heard the Chief Minister and the Police Commissioner loud and clear when they said any assertion the police would be politically motivated while investigating the Gosling-Connolly spectacle was “insulting”. Our response is, frankly, we don’t care how you want to take it or if it hurts your feelings, history has shown us you need to bring in independent oversight of this wacky investigation in the best interests of the Northern Territory.
A 35-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Palmerston overnight after he was tracked through the CBD using CCTV, NT Police said.
Two boys, aged 13 and 15, have been charged for their alleged involvement in a reckless driving spree involving a group of up to seven youths in a stolen car in Katherine on Thursday night, NT Police said.
New research analysing more than three million online posts has revealed how anti-First Nations hate grows around political debates and public controversies, with racist stereotypes portraying Indigenous people as criminals, welfare or alcohol dependent, “not black enough”, or undeserving recipients of government support, write Matteo Vergani and Fiona Allison.
A 49-year-old Alice Springs man has been charged with manslaughter for his alleged role in a fatal road incident that saw a male pedestrian killed by a vehicle in Darwin in February 2024, but the man charged was not driving the vehicle, NT Police said.
