A man has been charged for allegedly attacking a woman with an “edged weapon”, leaving her with a serious cut to her chest which required treatment in Royal Darwin Hospital, NT Police said.


A man has been charged for allegedly attacking a woman with an “edged weapon”, leaving her with a serious cut to her chest which required treatment in Royal Darwin Hospital, NT Police said.

A woman is in hospital with leg injuries after reportedly being struck by a quad bike on the Stuart Highway Service Rd at Coolalinga on Monday morning, with police currently searching for the driver after he allegedly left the scene without providing aid or calling emergency services.

NT Police are searching for three men who allegedly used an axe to smash into an East Side Alice Springs residence early Sunday morning before assaulting a woman and later returning to steal jewellery and money.

Heightened police patrols and full coverage of bottle shops will continue in Alice Springs after the youth curfew expires on Tuesday to ensure the community’s safety, the Chief Minister has pledged, while the Opposition said the emergency situation could have been avoided if Labor had not taken resources out of town in the first place.

A woman has been charged after allegedly assaulting her neighbour with a fork, and then throwing a 10kg piece of concrete down a stairwell, narrowly missing an arresting officer’s head, NT Police said.

Leaked screenshots of a Territory Response Group email that police members shared depicting a “Black Monopoly” board with every space designated “go to jail” in 2008, has cast further doubt on TRG members’ sworn claims their unit of the NT Police was not racist.

A woman allegedly stabbed a bouncer in the leg with scissors while being kicked out of a city bar, and then stabbed a woman twice in the head at the Darwin bus exchange, NT Police said.

The NT Police Association has said an extra 200 officers recruited over fours years is a good first step to improving policing, while some officers on sick leave had been “damaged” by the lack of resources provided by the government and executive and would never be coming back to work, which has also led to a need for more officers.

Two women have been charged with the commercial supply of methamphetamine after the alleged seizure of 500 grams of the drug last week from a Darwin rural area property, NT Police said, as part of an ongoing operation into the meth trade in the Greater Darwin region.

The Lawler Government has released the long-awaited review into police resources, which made 18 recommendations to improve the NT Police force, following a decade of “deeply traumatic organisational events” that led to multiple organisational failures, including the inability to properly allocate its resources.

The Lawler Government has extended the Alice Springs youth curfew for another six days, after it was recommended in a meeting of the Territory Emergency Management Council yesterday.

Official documents have revealed the Lawler Government made an error concerning which ministry was supposed to declare the Alice Springs “emergency situation”, raising further questions about the legality of the youth curfew and whether police have been exposed to legal risk in carrying out the orders.