Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has taken the Police Commissioner to Alice Springs to announce the government’s response to the “serious, heinous and escalating violence” that saw a baby and her mother attacked by teen home invaders in the middle of the afternoon, with the baby flown interstate after suffering a fractured skull.
Close to 90 per cent of St John Ambulance paramedics and patient transport officers who responded to a United Workers Union survey said they do not have confidence in the organisation’s executive, while 83 per cent they still have concerns about clinical procedures and patient safety, following a damning government review.
CLP Education Minister Jo Hersey says she is now in the process of divesting her shares in telecommunications giant Telstra, despite pledges from the CLP in February amid Labor’s shares scandal that all its MLAs’ shares would be divested “to show Territorians that we are ready to take government”.
Environmental group Lock the Gate Alliance says it is seeking a Federal Court injunction to halt Tamboran Resource’s fracking operations in the Beetaloo Basin, arguing it needs to be assessed under federal environment laws concerning its water use, before proceeding.
Another planned arrest of an alleged domestic violence perpetrator in a remote community has gone wrong for police, this time with two officers having a large cup of a boiling liquid thrown on them, that required medical assistance, NT Police said.
A suspected member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club had his Darwin accommodation raided by police following allegations he assaulted and threatened to kill his partner, NT Police said, resulting in charges for the alleged assault, drugs and perverting the course of justice.
Video of a stolen ute in a remote community shows a different story to the one portrayed by police media in late October after a massive pursuit of another stolen ute involved up to 10 police vehicles – including the Territory Response Group – ending in what police described at the time as a “seamless coordination across multiple police teams and communities”, but which was a “volatile” and “dangerous” situation that put the public at risk.
The company running the Arnhem Space Centre has announced it is abandoning the Northern Territory and moving rocket-launching operations to Queensland, claiming its planned expansion of the Arnhem facility has been met with delays in acquiring approvals from the Northern Land Council.
Today’s national news includes PM Albanese labelling the synagogue burning in Melbourne an act of terrorism, the Central Bank maintaining interest rate steady, a NAB survey indicating that business conditions are worst since the pandemic, and the Australian Navy conducting a test fire of US Tomahawk missile.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has committed to taking no action against five senior police officers who lied to the court about their involvement in the racist TRG awards, despite evidence the joint investigation by the ICAC and NT Police executive failed to properly review the officers’ criminal conduct.
There is no evidence to support St John Ambulance chief executive Andrew Tombs’ claim the organisation has addressed the urgent recommendations made in a damning report into patient treatment, that found multiple failures and poor decisions resulted in harm to patients and significant risk to staff, the United Workers Union has said.
Five remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory are among the 23 that will receive free community Wi-Fi as part of a $20 million Federal Government program.
