A 13-year-old boy who became separated from his classmates during a school camping trip near Ellery Creek Big Hole in the West MacDonnell ranges was found safe and well after a night spent in plunging temperatures, NT Police said.
CEL Australia to develop $100 million Darwin Convention Centre hotel
A Singapore-based hotel and resort company has been chosen to develop and operate the proposed $100 million Darwin Convention Centre hotel, that has been billed as an “upscale” four-star facility with 236 rooms that will include at least one pool and a couple of restaurants.
Liquor inspectors doing bottle shop checks with police in Alice Springs
Licensing Inspectors are being used side-by-side with police officers to monitor people buying alcohol in bottle shops in Alice Springs, after the removal of some police axillary liquor inspectors from the town, an NT Police press release with no spokesperson’s name on it has retrospectively announced.
Labor and Lawler must come clean on 2020 election rorts: Opposition
The Labor Government needs to come clean to Territorians over its misappropriation of taxpayer money to fund its 2020 election campaign instead of hiding behind new staff guidelines, the Opposition CLP says, while the Chief Minister says she has not been informed yet of what the ICAC’s investigation will reveal, but would not denounce party figures’ actions.
CLP releases its crime policy that includes bootcamps, women’s prisons
The Country Liberal Party has pledged to establish a comprehensive set of initiatives as part of its crime action plan that will reform corrections in the NT if it wins the election, including boot camps for youth and compulsory community service.
Auditor-General refuses to sign off on Batchelor Institute financials for second year running
The NT Auditor-General has refused to sign off on the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education’s financial report for the second year in a row, citing previous failings that have not been corrected, including unsubstantiated student numbers used to access Federal and Territory funding.
Two new health facilities pledged to ease pressure on health system as part of Budget 2024 cash splash
Two “crucial” health projects in Palmerston and Borroloola worth a combined $32 million are being fast-tracked to ease hospital pressures, the Chief Minister has committed as part of another pre-Budget announcement, which the Opposition says is pouring more money into a “broken system”.
Labor election rorts: Lawler changes staff rules in response to party’s misuse of public funds at 2020 election
EXCLUSIVE: Labor’s misuse of public funds at the 2020 election has sparked internal reforms to ministerial staff rules, ahead of possible findings from the long-delayed ICAC investigation into the party’s conduct, that an independent MLA says continues to “stink” the longer it remains unresolved.
‘Oh, it felt good’: Million dollar fish caught by Katherine teen
Katherine teenager Keegan Payne has reeled in a $1 million Barramundi, making him the first grand prize winner of the NT’s Million Dollar Fish competition, just days before the ninth season comes to a close.
Trip around the Nation: Free to Read National News for May 1
Today’s national news includes the Albanese government presiding over an ‘immigration detention disaster’, At least a thousand DV victims are stranded daily due to a funding crisis, Australia is now a top destination for expats, and PM Albanese clears up the Alice Springs funding debate.
PM says time to drop political ideology if Alice Springs to be fixed
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has praised the Lawler Government’s recent youth curfew in Alice Springs and his own directive to the government last year to reinstate grog bans in remote communities, saying during his visit today that those measures worked and “we need to not be ideological about this”.
Not so Bonza: Airline goes into administration five months after starting NT routes
Airline Bonza has stopped all flights as it works out if it can survive as a business, the company has said, which follows the airline being promised an undisclosed amount of Territory taxpayer money in September to fly to Darwin and Alice Springs.