Today’s national news includes PM Albanese denouncing an anti-Semitic social media post by Iranian Ambassador, the government forming a climate health advisory group, RBA’s decision to hold cash rate ‘welcomed’ by Jim Chalmers, and Australia’s housing market remains ‘resilient’ despite mounting costs of living.
The former operator of Sushi Bay outlets has been fined $15.3 million for underpaying migrant workers over $650,000, the Fair Work Ombudsman has said, which is $5 million more than the Commonwealth Bank was fined for underpaying employees more than $16 million.
Defence Housing Australia is under investigation by a federal government department for alleged illegal land clearing at Lee Point, it has been reported.
A subdivision application for Berrimah Farm to expand the Northcrest residential development by more than 900 lots has been lodged.
The female Department of Infrastructure employee who was verbally abused and threatened by chief executive Andrew Kirkman has been awarded legal costs, while the Chief Minister has ruled out any repercussions for Mr Kirkman, despite the judge now finding that he and the department knew they had no case and failed to act as model litigants.
Two Northern Territory waste recycling businesses have been awarded a combined $1.5 million in grants by the Lawler Government to recycle concrete into road bases and other products used in the construction industry.
The NT Police Commissioner who claimed earlier this year that he had never seen racism in the police force has offered a sweeping public apology to Indigenous Territorians for “past harms and injustices” inflicted on them over the past 150 years at the hands of the NT Police, while committing to “eliminating racism” in the force under his command.
Police Minister Brent Potter has pledged if re-elected the Lawler Government will pass legislation absolving itself of the responsibility to pay back Territorians for “many” decades worth of unlawful additional penalties added to fines by the Fines Recovery Unit, an announcement made on the second day of the caretaker period for a problem he said his government first learnt about on Tuesday.
Today’s national news includes the high cost of living could affect election chances for the Albanese government, increasing interest rates to hurt Labor at the next election, median mortgages hitting a new high, Royal Australian Navy receiving Austal’s 7th Cape-class patrol boat, and landmark deal for Northern Territory public school teachers struck.
The first official day of the 2024 election campaign kicked off in Palmerston on Thursday, as both major parties took to the battleground satellite city for press conferences, while an independent MLA found himself saving the day for the CLP when a couple of countrymen from Wadeye crashed the party’s presser making its politicians uncomfortable.
A damning report by the Productivity Commission has exposed the NT Government’s extensive failures to meet Closing the Gap measures meant to improve the lives of Indigenous Territorians, with the Territory recording the worst results of all Australian jurisdictions.
Continuing low-level riots in Woodroffe that saw up to 50 people fighting in the streets on Wednesday night and a car set on fire, meet the criteria for a curfew to be called similar to Alice Springs, the independent Member for Blain has said, while NT Police described the latest incident as a ‘disturbance’ of up to 20 people.
