Any person found guilty of spitting at any worker will be subject to a mandatory three-month jail sentence, as part of the CLP’s anti-crime agenda to be debated in Parliament this week, that has been labelled a “recipe for injustice” by the Australian Human Rights Commission.
A 16-year-old male has been arrested for allegedly assaulting and attempting to rape a woman on a street in Woodroffe on Monday evening.
Large “disturbances” in the remote community of Jilkminggan on Monday saw a woman assaulted by up to six unknown offenders and a man tasered by police after he allegedly threatened officers with a claw hammer, NT Police said.
The old Berrimah jail will hold adult prisoners again, while inmates from the newly refurbished Alice Springs youth jail will be moved to the yet-to-be opened Darwin facility, making it the Territory’s sole permanent youth jail, under an un-costed plan that the Finocchiaro Government said will add about 250 corrections beds across the NT by March.
The Northern Land Council was raided by National Anti-Corruption Commission earlier this week, one of two Territory land councils to be raided by the federal watchdog across three days.
A woman involved in a single vehicle car crash at the entrance to a caravan park in Berry Springs last week has died from injuries sustained in the incident, sparking a police investigation into the circumstances of the crash.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said she will not be sacking public servants, when asked by the Opposition about how she was going to fund election promises with the $11 billion debt Labor created, and while the bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility passed Parliament, the government said it had not yet seen a report evaluating the impact of raising the age of criminal responsibility.
Today’s national news includes ABF arresting a man for alleged import of date-rape drugs, LNP members slammed for misrepresenting their position on abortion, Vietnam and Australia aiming for a bilateral trade goal of US$20 billion, and buyer interest strong enough to offset significant rate hikes.
The eight assistant ministers announced for the CLP Government will not be paid extra for their assistant ministerial work, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said.
Qantas will be using an Airbus A220 to fly a new route between Darwin and Singapore but the start of the service has been pushed back until the end of March.
The first of a raft of legislative changes promised by the government has been passed by the Legislative Assembly. Legislation providing for a presumption against bail for serious violent offenders and giving police the power to search people for weapons with metal detectors in any public place was approved after the government used its numbers to prevent referral of the bills to the Legislation Scrutiny Committee.
The Anindilyakwa Land Council’s offices have been raided by the National Anti-Corruption Commission, multiple sources have told the NT Independent, with the commission confirming it was conducting an operation on Groote Eylandt on Wednesday.
