A 42-year-old man was arrested by NT Police late yesterday afternoon following a violent crime spree across the Darwin northern suburbs, where he allegedly attempted to run people over with a car, threw rocks at others, assaulted at least one person with a baseball bat, chased a female jogger while armed and reportedly “threatened” motorists with an umbrella while driving erratically down Bagot Road.
EXCLUSIVE: A secret statutory declaration filed by one of the five officers accused of lying to the courts about the racist TRG awards shows the officer later admitted to personally creating slide shows with racist images between 2015 and 2022 – directly contradicting the Office of the ICAC’s assertions the racist awards stopped in 2015 – while raising further questions about why none of the officers have been charged for providing false statements to the court.
New Zealand artist Phil Price, who was selected by Darwin Council to create the Cyclone Tracy 50th anniversary memorial sculpture, has described the concept behind his work as a “celebration of life” and that it was “not anything more than that”, adding it was impossible to really create a sculpture that represented Cyclone Tracy and suggested survivors who do not like it do not have the right attitude.
Major Crime Unit detectives are investigating the death of a woman who was found dead at toilet block in Wanguri with a head injury, NT Police said.
The NT Government is wasting time trying to overturn a major court ruling that forced it to provide residents with access to safe drinking water, a lawyer representing remote residents says, after the government last week moved to appeal the ruling.
EXCLUSIVE: The damning review into St John Ambulance by the NT Health Department has uncovered a toxic culture in the organisation – in addition to failures leading to patient harm – in which management used lawyers to intimidate and silence staff from speaking out and purposely ignored genuine concerns raised about the organisation’s ongoing ability to function.
An NT Police operation to target domestic violence offenders with outstanding warrants has resulted in 80 arrests, police said, including 36 made in regional and remote areas since the beginning of September.
Independent Alice Springs MLA Robyn Lambley has called on the NT Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to immediately investigate the rapid and severe deterioration of newly re-sealed roads in the Alice Springs CBD, calling the project an “abject failure”.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided not to lay charges against former Barkly Regional Council mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin for sitting on a child while another man abused him, in what he later claimed was a citizen’s arrest, NT Police said.
A man was killed in a single vehicle crash near Wadeye that also involved two other adults and a 10-year-old child, NT Police said.
Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis has initiated defamation action against Cyclone Tracy survivor Antony Bullock, who is organising a protest against the council’s cyclone memorial sculpture, over a mini-book he has written examining the process to select the controversial work, with a lawyer demanding he not publish the book and threatening to monitor his social media comments to find more instances of alleged defamation.
The Territory’s politicians have quietly been given an early Christmas present in the form of an $8,200 annual pay rise as of January 1 – bringing their base salaries to $175,000, plus benefits and expense accounts – while ministers will see their pay packet increase by nearly $14,000 a year.
