Glencore’s McArthur River Mine is facing charges for allegedly causing damage to a “barramundi dreaming” site considered sacred by traditional owners.

Tamboran Resources is hoping to raise $262.5 million in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange to continue its gas exploration interests in the Beetaloo Basin, with prospectus figures showing it has $29.5 million in cash cash equivalents but needs $85.5 million to operate for the rest of the year, however company director Andrew Robb said the capital required can be raised before it starts generating income in 2026.

Labor has promised to ban commercial barramundi fishing gillnets and buy back commercial licences if elected, before the release of the NT Fisheries’ review of the barramundi fishery that was promised by the party in the lead up to the last election, with the announcement also at odds with a 2021 government statement about developing a seafood processing facility.

Rental price increases and low vacancy rates are causing extreme rental pain in half of the NT’s suburbs, a new report suggests.

The Lawler Government’s confusing decision to move the Territory Day public fireworks display from its home at Mindil Beach to the Darwin Waterfront this year is no closer to being explained, after it was revealed at Estimates that no complaints about the festivities were ever raised by traditional owners and that a permit through the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority was never required.

The Lawler Labor Government secretly gave taxpayer money to keep the Darwin Salties basketball team afloat despite seemingly never seeing audited financial statements, claiming the details are commercial in confidence, while financial documents show the club lost more than $500,000 in its first two years of operation after receiving roughly $1 million combined from two Territory basketball organisations and the NT Government.

Chief Minister Eva Lawler has drawn the ire of environmental groups and traditional owners after the NT Government granted environmental approvals for Tamboran Resources to start fracking the Beetaloo Sub-basin, with critics calling on the Federal Government to enact water trigger laws to stop the project from proceeding.

The Lawler Government has awarded the $154 million contract to build the Alice Spring’s national Aboriginal art gallery to Sitzler, at the same cost it first announced two years ago, which is at the low end of a 2019 cost range estimate, but the government will not say much Darwin’s Civic and State Square development will cost to complete, despite earlier pledging to reveal the cost.