Electric scooter and bike hire company Beam has commenced operations in Darwin, and the company said it will have employees on the street in high traffic areas monitoring the safety of people’s riding with a three-strike policy for those caught riding dangerously or breaking the law.
Northern Territory traditional owners presented a hand-painted map of the Roper River to Federal Parliament along with a petition on Tuesday – with the group hosted by NT Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy – as part of a campaign to protect the river and oppose the Fyles Government’s recently released water plan that manipulated the data used to underpin it.
The GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt has been broken into for a third time in less than two months, sources have said.
In the last week the NT Government has released 11 tenders, including Provision of Vehicle Inspection, Repair and Auction Services for a Period of 36 Months.
The Northern Land Council has laid out its final submissions in a “$225 million” compensation claim against the NT government on behalf of the Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra peoples over the expansion of the McArthur River Mine, the media has reported.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles failed to publicly disclose on her parliamentary register a potential conflict of interest involving her husband working for a major health provider that has reportedly been paid more than a quarter of a billion dollars by the NT Government, an independent MLA says.
The Territory’s gross state product decreased by 5.3 per cent in the last financial year, the weakest result for all states and territories, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show, while an academic said he thought the Fyles Government realised the “future was grim” unless it reduced the public service or gas fracking began in the Beetaloo basin.
The NT Government awarded 23 contracts in the last week to a total of $68.4 million with the largest being awarded to RISE CONSTRUCTIONS NT PTY LTD for Design and Construct New Marine Facilities to Service Mandorah and Cox Peninsula in Mandorah, Darwin Region.
An Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation has found a helicopter owned by crocodile wrangler Matt Wright “probably” crashed because it ran out of fuel mid-air, with maintenance non-compliance also increasing risk levels for much of the company’s flying, and engine defects likely affecting the chopper’s fuel consumption.
“What is the point of a code of conduct when you see behaviour like this go completely undisciplined,” Territory Labor asked Parliament in 2016, when a CLP minister breached ministerial rules in a private shares scandal. Three days later he resigned. For five days now, Chief Minister Fyles has remained silent on her own breach of the ministerial code of conduct. READ WHAT HAPPENED IN 2016 HERE.
The Fyles Government has awarded a $63 million contract to build the new Mandorah jetty and undertake the associated works, which is $39 million more than it estimated it would cost in 2017, and comes four and a half years after the government declared it a priority project.
Virgin Australia will commence direct flights to Uluru from Melbourne and Brisbane starting June 6 next year, but they will not provide any remedy for ongoing skyrocketing domestic ticket prices that soared more than $3,000 one-way from Darwin recently.
