Hurting NT tourism operators affected by floods will be able to apply for grants of up to $5,000 to repair or replace damaged business equipment and infrastructure, the Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced, in response to calls for urgent financial assistance and a tourism bailout package ahead of the predicted slow upcoming tourism season.
Police Commissioner Martin Dole has appointed a different temporary deputy commissioner amid ongoing turmoil in the top brass and while an AFP investigation into allegations against the NT’s most senior police officers continues, with Mr Dole’s previous unexplained and “very odd” pick as deputy now replaced with a senior officer who previously held the role, despite a recruitment process for a permanent deputy having been conducted late last year.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced the Northern Territory’s latest ‘Investment Committee’ that will provide “independent advice on [government] investment opportunities” to help grow the stagnant economy, which appears to be the latest iteration of the previous Labor government’s Infrastructure Development Fund that was shut down amid scandal in 2019.
The Health Minister appeared to confirm for the first time Wednesday that he is dealing directly with St John Ambulance NT to renew the Northern Territory’s ambulance contract which was due to end in January, while the ambulance provider says it is currently in crisis due to a lack of paramedics and ambulances.
Jetstar will temporarily suspend its Darwin to Gold Coast service from May to October as part of Qantas Group’s cost-cutting measures due to rising global jet fuel prices driven by the Middle East conflict.
A 36-year-old recruit to the NT Government’s new Police Public Safety Officer program has been charged with various traffic offences in connection to a vehicle crash that occurred last month while he was off duty, NT Police said.
The CLP Government has launched a “reinvigorated” framework for school conduct it says will address an increase in assaults on students this school year.
After the Northern Territory’s right to legislate on euthanasia was restored, two inquiries were held, with one highlighting a shift in Indigenous communities thinking on voluntary assisted dying, moving from seeing it as the sorcerer’s needle and “kill business” to it allowing people to finish up on country, with family and at a time of one’s choosing, writes Dr Robyn Smith.
A former “distinguished” senior traffic officer has been heavily fined but escaped conviction after instructing his son, who recorded a positive breath test, to drive away from a crash scene, enabling him to evade a drug test despite suspicions he was under the influence of drugs.
NT Police are investigating the death of an infant allegedly found inside a parked vehicle in a Palmerston driveway on Friday afternoon.
A private consultancy company started by one of the Territory’s most senior public servants has recently employed another senior bureaucrat, with both heavily involved in establishing the NT Government’s private investment attraction and gas regulation policies over the past five years, raising questions about the potential for confidential government information to be used for private gain.
A 33-year-old man has now been charged with murder in connection to the suspicious highway death of a 27-year-old Queensland woman, who he claimed had “stopped breathing” after their vehicle struck a kangaroo, which the NT Police said they have found no evidence to substantiate.
