A 22-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged sexual assault of a child in broad daylight in Driver on Wednesday afternoon, NT Police have said.


A 22-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged sexual assault of a child in broad daylight in Driver on Wednesday afternoon, NT Police have said.

Former Tennant Creek Post Office manager Rebecca Liebelt has been sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to four and half years jail, suspended after six months when she will go into home detention, after pleading guilty to stealing more than $425,000 from Australia Post.

The inquest into the death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot by a NT Police officer Constable Zach Rolfe in 2019, will begin on Monday and run for approximately three months. Here is a draft list of witnesses.

SEE THE LIST: The Supreme Court witness list for senior Labor figure Kent Rowe’s child sex offence trial has been revealed, and it includes prominent local business people and families, other Territory Labor Party figures, the Deputy Chief Minister’s brother, a local councillor and more.

A man accused of riotous behaviour and throwing a “chemical” at police officers during an anti-mandate rally last year was found not guilty on five charges in the Darwin Local Court on Tuesday, after the prosecution failed to meet a court ordered deadline to disclose evidence.

ICAC Michael Riches’s executive assistant has faced court for the first time after being charged with disclosing confidential information in alleged breach of the ICAC Act.

NT cattle stations owner Rallen Australia said it obtained a temporary halt on road works by fracking company Tamboran Resources Limited on its land, until its stay application can be heard by the NT Supreme Court heard on July 15, but the miner later said the interim stop work had been lifted and misconceived as the company did have an immediate intention to undertake works on that track.

An Alice Springs grandmother who tipped an elderly man out of his mobility scooter and stole his beer has avoided jail.

A infant has died suddenly in Katherine, and their death is being investigated, NT Police have said.

A McMinns Lagoon man has fronted court for the first time after being charged with bestiality after police allegedly uncovered a “significant number” of videos, including some that had been posted on the internet, of the man engaged in “abhorrent” sexual acts with an animal during a raid of his house on Friday.

NT Police installed listening devices in the home of former Larrimah gardener Owen Laurie following the 2017 disappearance of Paddy Moriarty, an inquest in Katherine heard this week. Mr Laurie, who worked for pie shop owner Fran Hodgetts, lived on her property directly across the road from Mr Moriarty’s house. Here is the transcript of the recordings presented in the inquest.

Secret recordings of a man singing about the murder of Patrick Moriarty were played at the inquest into the missing man today.