Department of Infrastructure chief executive Andrew Kirkman knew about serious corruption issues at the department’s Katherine office, including tender manipulation, failure to disclose conflicts of interest and other improper procurement practices since at least 2019, but does not appear to have taken any action, according to a new ICAC “review” that confirmed misconduct in the department.
CLP Member for Barkly Steve Edgington has resigned as the Opposition’s spokesman on domestic violence, following revelations he hired a staffer with a long history of contravening domestic violence orders.
The Angurugu cyclone shelter was not open for the community until Tuesday morning, about three days after the tropical storm that became Cyclone Megan hit Groote Eylandt, knocking out electricity and water in the community that has many non-cyclone coded homes, but the government will not explain why it was kept closed.
Urban Rampage, which operates retail stores in Nhulunbuy, Tennant Creek, Katherine, and Alice Springs, said the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s decision to hold the company’s Centrepay facility indefinitely is having a disastrous effect on its First Nations customers.
A missing man’s body was found on the side of the Stuart Highway on Tuesday, NT Police said, with initial investigations indicating he may have been killed after falling from a vehicle.
The CLP’s spokesman on domestic violence Steve Edgington has defended his staffer after The Australian revealed the staffer’s “serious domestic violence” history, which has seen him face NT courts 27 times in the past four years, including for breaches of bail and contravening a domestic violence order, but later said he would be suspended until his criminal history could be verified.
A Darwin Middle School teacher has been charged for allegedly hitting a student in class, NT Police said.
UPDATED: Police Minister Brent Potter says he and the Attorney General have called in the NT Anti-Discrimination Commission to investigate racist award certificates handed out by NT Police TRG members, but says there is no hypocrisy in him criticising the police members’ actions despite posting racist, homophobic and misogynistic material on social media around the same time the TRG awards were produced.
Sites for three of the four proposed residential youth justice facilities in Darwin, Tennant Creek, and Alice Springs have been selected, with a fourth facility being planned for the Katherine region, the Chief Minister said, while also announcing the people who will lead the government’s Youth Justice Review.
Gas flow from the Northern Territory to Queensland stopped in early February and pipeline operator Jemena has told customers it did not expect it to resume until at least June because of reduced supply from the Blacktip gas field the ABC reported.
The Flickerfest short film festival is returning to the Northern Territory from this month with Australian, international and short films.
The Chief Minister has said there is a “strong” possibility of the Stuart Highway closing because of rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan which caused only minimal damage in Borroloola, while South32 is still waiting to fully investigate the damage to its manganese export wharf on Groote Eylandt caused by bulk carrier MV Anikitos hitting it during the category three cyclone.
