The Federal Government has promised Charles Darwin University $24.6 million over four years to establish a medical school in partnership the Menzies School of Health Research from 2026, dependent on the development of a medical school curriculum and accreditation by the Australian Medical Council, but there was no explanation of what will happen to the existing medical school based at CDU.
The Lawler Government has proposed spending close to $1 billion in today’s dollars on building a new Darwin City football stadium along with upgrades to other regional grounds to support a new Territory AFL team, which a taskforce believes could begin playing in seven to 10 years, while disgraced former AFL boss and casino director Andrew Demetriou has joined the taskforce to help win an AFL licence for the team.
Today’s national news includes Australians paying the price of Labor’s failed policies, Treasurer Jim Chalmers saying the cost of living relief in the budget will be substantial, Palestinian UN membership bid to build peace impetus, and South Australia mulls social media ban for kids.
Kenneth Charles Fleming KC, the Northern Territory’s first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption, died in Brisbane on 18 April, aged 77. Dr Robyn Smith writes about his life.
Peppimenarti community founder and Wilson family matriarch Regina Pilawuk Wilson has lodged Federal Court action on behalf of herself and members of the extended Wilson family against the Lawler Labor Government, three ministers, and the NT Police Commissioner for alleged breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act by failing to provide policing in their community comparable to the level provided to non-Indigenous NT residents.
NT Police are asking residents of Gray to check their yards for a bloody hammer that a 42-year-old man allegedly used to bash his female partner in the head with last night.
Five remote airfields across the NT have been chosen as recipients of a share of the Federal Government’s $13.4 million program to improve the safety and accessibility of airstrips across remote Australia.
UPDATED: Police have arrested Lazarus Bara Bara, 29, after he escaped from the Darwin Police Station at some point on Tuesday, which set off a days-long manhunt that saw police fail to issue a description until the day after the escape, while warning the public not to approach him, and then providing seemingly false information that he was headed to Adelaide River in the back of a ute.
The Territory stands to be key a beneficiary of a pledged Federal Government spend of between $14 billion and $18 billion across Northern Australia over the next decade to upgrade defence bases, with the government pledging that the NT will see “the lion’s share” of that money.
A powerful peak body for Aboriginal Territorians has publicly rebuked Police Minister Brent Potter for his comments about violence in Daly River, insisting the Minister and the Lawler Government are playing “the blame game” instead of accepting responsibility for their failure to uphold law and order across the Territory.
The CLP has pledged to raise the tax-free threshold for payroll tax small businesses pay if elected in August, that will see Territory employers with payrolls below $2.5 million not pay any payroll tax at all, in an effort it says to “get the economy moving forward”.
Today’s national news includes PM Albanese criticizing China over a fighter jet incident over international waters, RBA keeping policy rate stable at 4.35 per cent, Five Bonza aircraft being taken away despite administrators’ effort to retain them, and $8.5 million West Beach Surf Club opening.
