NT Police responded to three aggravated assaults over the weekend, resulting in the tasering and arrest of one man in connection to a disturbance in Tennant Creek, while two other suspects remain at large, including a man who threatened a 60-year-old woman in Palmerston with a pair of scissors while she walked along the street on Saturday afternoon.
Federal Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has referred allegations against Anindilyakwa Land Council to her department’s integrity group, which could then be referred to Commonwealth and Territory enforcement agencies if any wrongdoing is found.
UPDATED: Once touted by the NT Labor Government as the biggest prawn farm in the world that would create hundreds of jobs, Seafarm’s $2 billion Project Sea Dragon was ordered by the Federal Court on Thursday to be wound up as insolvent, which the court found was operating insolvent since “at least June 2020”.
Infrastructure Minister Joel Bowden could not provide an estimate of how much the Civic Park and State Square redevelopment would cost taxpayers while announcing the latest “revitalisation” project Thursday morning, and said he was unaware of the existence of a business case for the project, which appears to have ballooned to close to $200 million at least.
Today’s national news includes Canberra siding with Washington to address China’s growing power, Papua New Guinea calling on Australia’s help to curb clan conflict, Australia’s Orica buying US-based Cyanco for $640 million, and ex-bishop Christopher Saunders being charged with historical child sex abuses.
NT Police are searching for two male relatives of a woman who was allegedly abused by her 34-year-old partner Wednesday night, after the pair stabbed the man multiple times following the assault and fled the Jingili residence.
The NT Police’s new estimated $65 million electronic case management system is leading to wrongful arrests, failed prosecutions of domestic violence crimes, not recording all incidents and placing police officers at risk, the head of the police union says, while also accusing the government of misleading the public about historical crime statistics for political purposes.
The Anindilyakwa Land Council chief executive officer is also the CEO of a mining company, as well as the director of a mining logistics company that services the mine, both of which directly or indirectly received a total of $24 million in royalty money from the land council in one year, an independent audit found, raising conflict of interest concerns.
The $32 million refurbished Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre, which the Lawler Government says will include “high-tech security systems” and new body scanners to keep young offenders, staff and the community safe, is expected to be operational next month. SEE THE VIDEO
CLP Leader Lia Finocchiaro has refused to say who in her office made the call not to inform the public about Josh Burgoyne’s car crash in August of last year, while fronting the media on Tuesday for the first time since Mr Burgoyne was charged with careless driving causing serious harm in relation to the crash that sent two healthcare workers to hospital with injuries.
A rare and critically endangered shark species that has been found in the Roper River for the first time, could be threatened in that area by massive water extraction under the Georgina Wiso water allocation plan, Charles Darwin University has said.
The boss of the shoppies’ union, Shlok Sharma, has been preselected by Territory Labor to run for the Wanguri electorate at the next election to replace retiring MLA Nicole Manison, with the party calling the star candidate a “champion” of workers’ rights and a “passionate advocate for the people”.
