An investigation into several “serious” allegations of “inappropriate behaviour” in the Office of the ICAC has been launched by the NT Public Employment Commissioner, as Michael Riches says he intends to return to work following extended sick leave related to unresolved DV allegations.
EXCLUSIVE: Acting anti-corruption commissioner Naomi Loudon will not confirm the nature of her conflict of interest with the ICAC’s investigation into Territory Labor’s misuse of public funds at the last election despite her friendship with Labor staffers now revealed, while alleged compromising photos of Ms Loudon were circulated internally by office staff last year.
The Northern Land Council, representing Roper River catchment traditional owners, has called on the NT government to rewrite the “appalling” draft Mataranka water allocation plan, while the NT Farmers Association has called for compensation for farmers, it has been reported.
Labor has promised to ban commercial barramundi fishing gillnets and buy back commercial licences if elected, before the release of the NT Fisheries’ review of the barramundi fishery that was promised by the party in the lead up to the last election, with the announcement also at odds with a 2021 government statement about developing a seafood processing facility.
A NT Local Court judge awarded a woman $120,000 in civil damages after finding a police officer slipped a finger into her vagina during an illegal search for drugs and jewellery that was done in front of male police officers, adding if the matter were raised in a criminal court it would likely constitute an assault and battery.
A 23-year-old man who police allege struck two pedestrians with his car on Thursday afternoon and fled the scene near Hibiscus Shopping Centre has been charged, while police said one of the pedestrians has died in hospital overnight.
The bag limits for the waterfowl hunting season will remain at the maximum allowable level for the third year in a row when the season begins in September, Environment Minister Kate Worden has said.
Errol Flynn was a perpetrator of frontier violence, one of the many men who raped girls and women, or massacred Indigenous people, ugly facts that invite the well-established colonial practice of wilful amnesia, writes Dr Robyn Smith.
Rental price increases and low vacancy rates are causing extreme rental pain in half of the NT’s suburbs, a new report suggests.
The Anindilyakwa Land Council chief executive officer Mark Hewitt told a Senate committee hearing he sought to be given shares in an Aboriginal-owned mine in which he is also CEO to provide “stability” to the project, while the mine was funded by more than $15 million in royalties from traditional owners distributed through the ALC.
Cocaine and meth valued at more than $7 million destined for the Darwin market was intercepted by NT Police late last month as part of a joint operation with federal authorities. WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE BUST
EXCLUSIVE: Anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches allegedly used taxpayer-funded cameras installed at the family home to monitor his then-wife, that she alleges were operated to exert coercive control, which could constitute misuse of public resources, however the ICAC Inspector dropped the matter and it is not expected to be investigated further.
