Federal Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has referred allegations against Anindilyakwa Land Council to her department’s integrity group, which could then be referred to Commonwealth and Territory enforcement agencies if any wrongdoing is found.

UPDATED: Once touted by the NT Labor Government as the biggest prawn farm in the world that would create hundreds of jobs, Seafarm’s $2 billion Project Sea Dragon was ordered by the Federal Court on Thursday to be wound up as insolvent, which the court found was operating insolvent since “at least June 2020”.

Infrastructure Minister Joel Bowden could not provide an estimate of how much the Civic Park and State Square redevelopment would cost taxpayers while announcing the latest “revitalisation” project Thursday morning, and said he was unaware of the existence of a business case for the project, which appears to have ballooned to close to $200 million at least.

The Anindilyakwa Land Council chief executive officer is also the CEO of a mining company, as well as the director of a mining logistics company that services the mine, both of which directly or indirectly received a total of $24 million in royalty money from the land council in one year, an independent audit found, raising conflict of interest concerns.

A union has demanded Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman apologise for blaming workers for the delayed opening of the university’s city campus, saying it is “despicable” to blame workers for mismanagement on the project.

Darwin City continues to have the highest vacancy rate of capital cities in the country after recording an increase of 0.23 per cent for the previous quarter, to a 2.69 per cent vacancy rate in January, a new report shows.

Three solar power stations built four years ago were finally connected to the grid late last year, but two are still unable to generate power to the grid, with the other one providing only 25 per cent of its capacity, while the Lawler Government will not say when they will be operating at full capacity or if it is in talks to purchase the solar farms.

The Lawler Government has passed amendments to the Building Act years after unsafe homes and units were discovered that it says will improve safety and boost consumer confidence, but the Opposition rejected the legislation, saying it lacked detail and raised the potential of underqualified or conflicted people controlling building registration.

Charles Darwin University will research water use patterns and the efficiency of the Territory’s rain-fed cotton crops in a partnership with the Industry, Tourism and Trade Department and the industry itself.