The Office of the Chief Minister secretly briefed journalists in an effort to deny the significance of a Nazi general Police Minister Brent Potter quoted on Facebook, with Eva Lawler’s communications unit now claiming the attempted spread of Nazi misinformation was the result of a “typo”.
Today’s national news includes China’s top diplomat visiting Australia, the Labor government wanting to ‘shut down’ nuclear debate, electricity prices ‘need to go down’ in Australia, and Prime Minister Albanese said he has no plan to copy a move by US legislators to ban TikTok.
NT Police were called to Mitchell Street on Thursday morning amid reports of an active shooter, which resulted in the temporary lockdown of Parliament House, before police determined there was no immediate threat to the public and that the report was likely false.
The Labor Government has blocked the ICAC from accessing Cabinet documents at least five times over the last two years despite concerns the ministers had been misled and that misconduct had transpired, a new report shows, which also highlighted that other matters involving criminal conduct had been referred to the NT Police six times this financial year.
The Northern Land Council has announced the sudden departure of chief executive officer Joe Martin-Jard with no explanation, which comes in the same week as the election of a new council chair.
Core Lithium, whose Northern Territory mine has gone into recess, has announced a $167.6 million half-year loss, along with the departure of its chief executive Gareth Manderson and director Andrea Hall.
The federal and NT governments have agreed to “fully fund” all Territory public schools but not until 2029, increasing spending from 2025 to eventually meet nationally agreed funding levels, with the Australian Education Union saying while it welcomed the money, the funding was aimed at getting children to the bare minimum of literacy and numeracy levels.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler spent another day defending her “idiot” Veterans’ Affairs and Police Minister Brent Potter, casting aspersions on the integrity of everyone in Parliament, after cutting press conferences short on consecutive days amid questions over why he remains in Cabinet after his racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and misogynistic social media posts were made public.
A new $4 billion joint remote housing program between the federal and territory governments, which aims to build 270 new homes annually in remote NT communities over the next 10 years, will involve the Federal Labor Government getting “very much hands-on” to ensure the NT Government meets its targets, the Prime Minister has said.
The new Casuarina pool will be open in the middle of the year, Darwin Council Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis has said.
Jetstar has said it will add an extra 54,000 Northern Territory seats from April to October, including on flights between Darwin and other capitals as well as Bali, but with 40 per cent of the seats being on flights between Sydney and Uluru, the company has announced.
One person is in custody after an aggravated robbery in Bellamack overnight that involved two men allegedly using a firearm to shoot open a door at a home on Eucharia Street, NT Police said.
