Six youth detainees at the new Holtze Youth Detention Centre have allegedly caused $200,000 worth of damage at the facility, in what the government called a “deliberate act of vandalism”, that saw teens allegedly smash wash basins, tear metal intercom panels and light and power sockets from the walls, leaving the rooms unusable and live wires exposed in the first week the facility was opened.
Today’s national news includes AQBA to boost Australia, Qatar bilateral relationship, Army deploying a new fleet of 75 M1A2 SEP v3 Abrams main battle tanks, Only Fans creator Bonnie Blue banned from Australia, and Jamie Oliver pulls back book that upset First Nation Australians.
Darwin Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis has once again publicly denied the Cyclone Tracy 50th anniversary monument – which the Federal Government provided $600,000 to create – is actually a monument or a memorial for one of Australia’s worst natural disasters, adding that a secret VIP event the council organised to unveil it was not actually an “event”, after facing intense public outrage.
Former Northern Land Council chief executive officers Joe Martin-Jard and Marion Scrymgour have both said they have not been approached by the National Anti-Corruption Commission about an investigation it is conducting into the land council, after raids on its Darwin offices last month and amid questions on Friday at Senate Estimates hearings.
The interim chief executive officer of the Anindilyakwa Land Council has said it is his “understanding” that the former CEO Mark Hewitt is under investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Three children have fell into septic tanks across the Northern Territory over the past two years, including one death, but more unsecured lids have been discovered in recent weeks despite previous warnings, NT WorkSafe says.
Two women have been killed and another taken to hospital after all three were struck by a car on Trower Road in Brinkin last night, NT Police said.
Two police officers attempting to enforce the CLP Government’s new nuisance public drinking laws were allegedly assaulted by members of a group drinking in a park, with one female officer punched in the face and another having a metal pole thrown at him, NT Police said.
A Charles Darwin University staffer who publicly criticised the CLP Government in an op-ed for acting like “dictators” who engage in “shady” politics, has been rebuked by vice-chancellor Scott Bowman from China in his own opinion piece, in which he wrote that he was impressed by everything the CLP is doing, including a proposal to give an unelected bureaucrat the ability to override environmental regulations.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy said the Federal Government has committed to collaborating with manufacturers and producers to investigate ways to enhance food security and make food and other essentials more affordable in remote First Nations communities.
Basketball Australia senior executives have visited Darwin to assess the financial situation of the sport and how to manage it in the future, following the exposure of a financial crisis, the head of the peak body has said, and amid reports the Darwin Salties will not return next year.
Four years after finding deliberate non-compliance of campaign financial disclosure laws by the NT’s political parties and donors, the NT Electoral Commission has again ordered an audit of the major political parties, independents and other election participants to ensure they properly disclosed their donations and expenditure at the 2024 NT election.
