A new model for dealing with domestic violence is being trialled in Alice Springs where specialists based at the police station will support victims, given advice to police, and encourage perpetrators to partake in behaviour change programs, the NT government has said.
Homelessness peak body NT Shelter has said the sevenfold increase in the federal budget for home construction and homelessness services in the NT could be a “game changer”.
An incident in which a helicopter’s rotor blades hit a rock ledge, leaving the severely damaged aircraft stranded near Kakadu National Park last week, is being investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
A deadly head-on collision on the Arnhem Highway over the weekend has left one person dead and another reportedly in hospital, NT Police said.
Twenty-one new murals now adorn Darwin walls across the city after the recently concluded 2024 Darwin Street Art Festival, providing the city a new makeover.
EDITORIAL: Hush money, cover-ups, lies, institutional racism, domestic violence allegations, and more lies – this is what the two men running the agencies tasked with investigating our public officials and keeping the streets safe have been caught up in personally over the last fortnight, while the Chief Minister cannot say for sure what she is doing to restore integrity.
Today’s national news includes interest rates remaining stable despite recorded declines in other countries, PM Albanese choosing ‘friendship’ with Ardern over ‘Australians’ security, developing ties with the Solomon Islands remains a top priority for Australia, bird imports from Australia banned following confirmed cases of bird flu, and Australia’s passport is set to become the most expensive in the world.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler has drawn the ire of environmental groups and traditional owners after the NT Government granted environmental approvals for Tamboran Resources to start fracking the Beetaloo Sub-basin, with critics calling on the Federal Government to enact water trigger laws to stop the project from proceeding.
The Lawler Government has awarded the $154 million contract to build the Alice Spring’s national Aboriginal art gallery to Sitzler, at the same cost it first announced two years ago, which is at the low end of a 2019 cost range estimate, but the government will not say much Darwin’s Civic and State Square development will cost to complete, despite earlier pledging to reveal the cost.
The ICAC Inspector’s investigation into the conduct of anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches and his failure to disclose domestic violence allegations needs to be done “quickly”, Chief Minister Eva Lawler says, but would not commit to a full independent investigation into his conduct and would not say when the Inspector’s report would be made public.
Two Alice Springs paramedics feared for their lives, and the life of their patient, when they were threatened by a bystander with a knife, the union representing paramedics said.
The NT Police Association has backed Commissioner Michael Murphy after he failed to investigate racist material last year and lied to the public about it, with the union’s boss saying Mr Murphy has done “everything to rectify the situation”, but was unable to point to one instance in which the NTPA has publicly criticised the Commissioner specifically for any issue.
