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CLP to force private hospital operator to provide maternity services after allowing services to end last year

CLP to force private hospital operator to provide maternity services after allowing services to end last year

The Finocchiaro CLP Government will follow other states’ lead by mandating that the Darwin Private Hospital operator provide maternity services by law, but the move comes 16 months after the services stopped because the government failed to act on advice that it legislate for it at the time. An obstetrician has also warned it will now take at least two years for the services to return.

OC spray to be made available for teens as trial becomes permanent

OC spray to be made available for teens as trial becomes permanent

Sixteen-year-olds will be able to carry and use pepper spray because having access to it could be “the difference between life and death”, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has claimed, following what she hailed as a “99 per cent success rate” of the CLP Government’s public pepper spray trial, with use and carry laws to be made permanent.

CLP offering $250 for Alice Springs residents affected by storm, while federal funding finally activated

CLP offering $250 for Alice Springs residents affected by storm, while federal funding finally activated

UPDATED: Roughly 1,800 Alice Springs properties remain without power 48 hours after a massive storm tore through town on Monday, with the Finocchiaro CLP Government offering residents a “one-off $250 prepaid card” to replace spoiled food – if their power remains out for at least another 24 hours – but it was announced later that significant federal disaster funding has now been made available.

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