A woman is in hospital with leg injuries after reportedly being struck by a quad bike on the Stuart Highway Service Rd at Coolalinga on Monday morning, with police currently searching for the driver after he allegedly left the scene without providing aid or calling emergency services.
CDU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman was exposed at the Federal Senate inquiry into the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct on Thursday for attempting to stifle academic freedom and failing to disclose glaring conflicts of interest with major Middle Arm gas proponents in the university’s submission to the inquiry, which appears to have breached academic policies and marred the university’s reputation.
NT Police are searching for three men who allegedly used an axe to smash into an East Side Alice Springs residence early Sunday morning before assaulting a woman and later returning to steal jewellery and money.
Heightened police patrols and full coverage of bottle shops will continue in Alice Springs after the youth curfew expires on Tuesday to ensure the community’s safety, the Chief Minister has pledged, while the Opposition said the emergency situation could have been avoided if Labor had not taken resources out of town in the first place.
EXCLUSIVE: NT Health is conducting an external review of how St John Ambulance NT operates, following recent cases where its dealings with patients needed to be investigated, the review terms of reference state.
Leaked screenshots of a Territory Response Group email that police members shared depicting a “Black Monopoly” board with every space designated “go to jail” in 2008, has cast further doubt on TRG members’ sworn claims their unit of the NT Police was not racist.
If low gas production from the Blacktip gas field continues, it could force the NT to import gas from Queensland in the third quarter of this year, an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission gas report says.
The NT Police Association has said an extra 200 officers recruited over fours years is a good first step to improving policing, while some officers on sick leave had been “damaged” by the lack of resources provided by the government and executive and would never be coming back to work, which has also led to a need for more officers.
The Northern Territory economy shrunk by 5.2 per cent to $30.1 billion last year, driven by declining net exports, according to new government data, which casts further doubts around the Lawler Government’s claims of building a $40 billion economy by the end of the decade.
A conflict management mediator will challenge Labor Minister Joel Bowden for the seat of Johnston at this August’s election, stating that she felt obligated to run after both major parties have failed to offer any “real solutions” to the problems the Territory is currently facing.
The Lawler Government has released the long-awaited review into police resources, which made 18 recommendations to improve the NT Police force, following a decade of “deeply traumatic organisational events” that led to multiple organisational failures, including the inability to properly allocate its resources.
Royal Darwin Hospital has minimal neonatologist and nurses qualified to work in its neonatal intensive care unit, which led to its level of care in the unit being downgraded, the Nursing and Midwifery Federation has said.
