Today’s national news includes PM Albanese announcing a significant cabinet reshuffle; Australia’s inflation is still lower than other countries; United Airlines cuts Australia flights from LA, SF, and Houston; and Craft beer prices shoot up due to cost of living pressures.
A new road safety plan for the NT will see more officers patrolling Territory roads over the next six weeks to stem the surging road toll.
Informa Connect Australia is hosting the Northern Territory Resources Week, a comprehensive event that brings together three of the Territory’s foremost industries—The South East Asia Australia Offshore & Onshore Conference, Mining the Territory Symposium, and the NT Clean Energy and Decarbonisation Forum. This all-encompassing event will take place on September 18 and 19 at the Darwin Convention Centre, assembling major players in Australia’s oil, gas, and mineral industries.
The Federal Government has announced $250 million in renewable energy spending for the Northern Territory, which the Australian Conservation Foundation said it expects will in part go toward connecting solar plants to the grid that have sat unconnected for years, following warnings from the NT Utilities Commission of widespread blackouts starting over the next three years without investment in the system.
The NT Government must review and change emergency powers that permit police to suspend liquor licenses of venues for two days, Hospitality NT has said, after Alice Springs businesses alleged police are unfairly targeting them.
UPDATED: A fighter jet taking part in Exercise Pitch Black has crashed in the Douglas Daly region, officials have confirmed, grounding flight activities for the rest of the day.
A plan for protecting migratory shorebirds in Darwin Harbour warns that development, including the controversial Middle Arm industrial precinct, could have a detrimental effect on the coastal bird habitat, also recommending barrier fencing using a floating buoy line on a section of Lee Point beach.
A 36-year-old woman who was allegedly struck in the head by her former partner in a domestic violence incident in Katherine on July 11, has died in hospital as a result of her injuries, NT Police said.
EDITORIAL: DIPL chief executive Andrew Kirkman will not resign and will not be sacked, Chief Minister Eva Lawler has now confirmed, after a judge found he misled the court, attempted to blackmail a female staffer, inflicted a mental health injury on her and acted in an “aggressive, threatening…and inappropriate manner” during a meeting that was secretly recorded.
The cost of the new youth detention facility at Holtze has blown out to $130 million – from its original $55 million tender four years ago – which the Chief Minister says was unavoidable but worth the cost because it will help “support young people on their journey”.
The Local Government Minister Chanston Paech has provide a vague statement about why he chose to suspend the Coomalie Community Government Council members and put the council under official management.
NT Government ministers will be subject to new “controls and processes” for managing their conflicts of interest following another internal government review, with no specific penalties put in place for those who breach the new guidelines.
