The Country Liberal Party has distributed an unprecedented attack ad against independent candidates running at the general election, in which it suggested independents could do nothing to improve the Territory, which was quickly dismissed by independents as the actions of a tired, old party fearing for their jobs and pushing the status quo.
A new state-of-the-art $80 million data centre in Darwin that will utilise domestic and subsea cables to securely connect and support data storage in the NT and internationally, ultimately improving the NT’s digital economy, has officially opened.
Today’s national news includes Manager of Opposition Business Paul Fletcher saying it is “entirely proper” to ask questions about the “security implications” of people arriving in Australia from Gaza, Australian productivity inappropriate with wage increases, Australia has the highest life expectancy among English-speaking countries, and Heavy downpours put emergency services on high alert in Queensland and New South Wales.
The NT should have a ‘consensus government’, where all the politicians are independents, with the leader and ministers selected by all members, and those who are not chosen hold the balance of power as the ‘opposition’, meaning the executive and the legislature operate independently of each other, writes Gerry Wood.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has been forced to issue another “apology”, this time to the owners of Bojangles Saloon in Alice Springs, for publicly claiming the owners breached responsible service of alcohol laws, which was incorrect and led to the bar having its licence suspended for two days.
The NT Greens appear to be walking back their decision as a party to preference Labor ahead of the CLP on their how-to-vote cards, acknowledging it is hard to tell the two major parties apart, now instructing their voters to make up their own minds over who they preference at the polling booth.
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency has named Anthony Beven as acting chief executive officer, the sixth boss of the troubled agency in about 18 months, it has been reported.
Labor’s Wanguri candidate Shlok Sharma has released a list of endorsements from high-profile Labor powerbrokers, including a couple who wrote a character reference letter for a convicted paedophile two years ago, a gas lobbyist with a secret client list and a fifth floor staffer who helped run Labor’s 2020 election campaign that misused taxpayer money.
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Forty handpicked brushtail possums have had their return to the Red Centre celebrated, after being driven to extinction in the region in recent years.
Pre-poll early voting in the Northern Territory kicked-off Monday morning, as more than a thousand Territorians cast their ballots in the first couple of hours, ahead of the August 24 election day.
A spate of stolen cars and property damage in Alice Springs last week has led to officers from Darwin and other areas deployed to Central Australia as part of “Operation Archer”, which has recovered multiple vehicles and seen youths arrested, while one officer broke his ankle chasing suspects.
