Schools could face an acute teacher shortage after the Christmas break unless the NT Government steps in to cover the $2,500 bill for mandatory quarantine, the Australian Education Union NT boss has said, while the Australian Medical Association NT also thinks the cost will stop desperately needed health professionals coming.
A man who attempted to dodge the Northern Territory’s mandatory 14-day quarantine and provided misleading information to police will face court next week, NT Police have said. Police spokesman Rob Cross said in a statement on Monday, the 56-year-old man arrested at...
Two people will face fines totalling more than $10,000 after allegedly lying about visiting a Victorian COVID-19 hotspot on declaration forms while trying to enter the Northern Territory.
Tourism Central Australia chief executive officer Danial Rochford says his industry is on its knees and they are in their darkest days. With the government tourism voucher scheme mostly spent in the Top End they are asking how they can save themselves, with shuttered businesses, vacant hotels, struggling restaurants, tour buses sent interstate, and rows of hire cars gathering dust.
The Gunner Government has reduced the amount of days some people have to spend in supervised mandatory COVID-19 quarantine, while the NT’s chief medical officer has said he will not declare Brisbane a hotspot “at this stage”.
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia is calling on the NT Government to reimpose strict visitor bans to remote Indigenous communities, saying without visitor restrictions in place, it is only a matter of time before coronavirus gets into one or more of these fragile communities.
Tourism operators in the Northern Territory have been swamped with cancellations from interstate tourists who had booked to come to the Top End later this year, following Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s claims of the Territory’s “hard border” closures for the next 18 months.
The Darwin Supercars event will now include the SuperSprint that will take place on August 22 to 23 – the same weekend as the Territory general election and the AFL Dream Time game in Darwin.
The Northern Territory’s border control measures may remain in place until 2022, Chief Minister Michael Gunner said Tuesday while suggesting another 18 months of border restrictions and the possibility of adding more coronavirus hotspots.
A 20-year-old man has been fined $5,056 after trying to leave mandatory quarantine on his last day of detention, NT Police said.
Once suspected of carrying coronavirus, hundreds of people from Brisbane, Logan and Ipswich will now be released into the community, following the NT chief health officer’s decision to revoke coronavirus hotspot status for those areas.
A man allegedly under the influence of methamphetamine who attempted to enter the Northern Territory through the Western Australia border was arrested after speeding through the checkpoint, failing to complete an NT border form and avoiding police nearly all the way to Katherine.
