An independent MLA has questioned why acting Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Naomi Loudon selected the person to assume responsibility for Operator Jupiter rather using ICAC legislation to have the Administrator independently appoint a temporary commissioner.
Public buses throughout the Northern Territory will remain free until June next year. Logistics Minister Bill Yan said the extension was because technical problems disrupted fare collection and passenger data on about a quarter of bus services.
NT Police say they have arrested a man whose parole they revoked last week, a man who had been sentenced in 2013 to a non-parole period of nine years in prison for his part in an infamous gang rape at gunpoint of two European backpackers in Alice Springs.
The Territory’s former top traffic cop will contest a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice relating to a traffic matter.
A discount tourism scheme for the Top End has opened for bookings, with up to 25 per cent savings available, the Tourism Minister said.
The Finocchiaro Government has increased rent on government employee houses by 25 per cent, but a spokesman said departments and agencies would principally pay the additional cost.
Today’s national news includes the display of Hezbollah flags in Melbourne protest denounced, 67% of the money spent in supermarkets is shared between Coles and Woolworths, the State Department okays Australia’s $405 million guided missiles purchase, and 25th Anniversary of Peacekeeping Mission Celebrated in Timor-Leste.
The Endeavour Group has purchased Darwin’s The Cav, it has been reported.
The Environment Centre NT has said it has filed an urgent application with the NT Civil and Administrative Tribunal to stop Tamboran Resources drilling at its Beetaloo Basin Shenandoah South fracking project until a final ruling is made on the centre’s claim that the project poses “unacceptable” risks to water.
Some of Australia's Olympians and Paralympians will be honoured at events in Darwin and Palmerston on Saturday. Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro did not name the athletes in her press release about the visit but the NT News reported that among the visitors would be...
The Darwin Basketball Association Board could not explain at its annual general meeting why it considered the association solvent given a warning from auditors at the end of last year that there was significant doubt about its capacity to continue as a going concern.
The Director of the Centre for Public Integrity has described as “absurd” a decision by the Acting Independent Commissioner Against Corruption to suppress the name of a former Supreme Court judge she briefed to oversee the continuing investigation of the then-Labor government’s misuse of public resources during the 2020 general election.
