Former CLP senator Sam McMahon is currently being sued by a federal audit body for allegedly breaching expenses policy and using taxpayer money to avoid COVID quarantine in Darwin, but the NT Independent can reveal she also failed to disclose paying her staffer $135,000 for a share of his Darwin unit, as part of an “unusual” arrangement.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has suspended the demolition of Anzac Oval in Alice Springs that was to house the $154 million Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Gallery of Australia, suggesting it will still be built but the “next steps” need to be worked through.
Expressions of interest to register floats for “A Very Darwin Christmas Pageant” parade will close on Monday, September 16, the city has announced.
A 50-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a taxi driver in Casuarina last week and suffered head injuries after the driver allegedly fought back has died in hospital, NT Police said.
The former editor of the NT News, who left the job after his involvement in the Darwin Turf Club’s grandstand scandal was made public and who wrote an editorial backing the federal Labor Party in 2019, has been named director of communications for the Finocchiaro CLP Government.
A man was stabbed in the stomach in Nightcliff and later underwent surgery for his injuries, while his alleged attacker has been arrested, it has been reported.
A team from Charles Darwin University is set to visit India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to attract prospective students to the Northern Territory, a week after the Federal Government loosened its international student cap for regional universities.
The Territory Road Policing Division boss Superintendent Daniel Shean allegedly intervened to block his son being investigated and possibly charged for allegedly drink driving, multiple sources have told the NT Independent, while the now former officer has denied the allegations.
Newly elected NT Greens Member for Nightcliff Kat McNamara has criticised the CLP Government for dropping the climate change portfolio from its ministry, warning that “climate change isn’t going away because the CLP don’t want to think about it”.
UPDATED: Two prisoners who broke out of the Darwin City watch house around 4:50am this morning in an unexplained escape, have been apprehended, authorities said.
Seafarms Group Ltd, the company behind the stalled $2 billion Project Sea Dragon, has reported a significant operating loss of $19.3 million for the fiscal year 2023-24, leaving its current assets at only $4.3 million, it has been reported.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced a major shake-up of the public service that will see the number of departments expand from 12 to 18, with two departmental chief executives losing their jobs, and others being rotated around.
