A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of a minister granting a 40,000 megalitre water licence to Fortune Agribusiness for the remote Singleton Station, finding in part that the Territory Families Minister who made the decision in place of the Environment Minister, was able to give reasonable and rational consideration to the matter in the four days she took to make the decision.
The Lawler Government may cut its funding to the Environmental Defenders Office following findings a lawyer with the organisation “distorted and misrepresented” evidence during a Federal Court hearing into Santos’ Barossa gas project, which the Chief Minister suggested was an attempt by the EDO to derail the Territory’s economy.
Sun Cable has appointed a new leadership team to oversee the domestic side of the resuscitated Australia-Asia Power Link project that ultimately aims to transmit solar energy from the NT to Singapore, but which will focus on providing power to Darwin first.
The Lawler Government is currently assessing what information it publicly releases through a secret review that it has provided little information on and refuses to answer questions about.
Mission Australia Housing NT and Venture Housing have taken over management of 500 public housing properties in Darwin and Palmerston, which is part of a plan to move up to 40 per cent of urban public housing to community housing providers, the Lawler Government has said.
Ninety-eight per cent of NT Police officers who responded to a union survey believe there are not enough police, and 76 per cent have considered leaving the force in the last six months, the Northern Territory Police Association has said, but Police Minister Brent Potter said the government is on the right track with an 18 per cent increase in morale in the last year.
The passenger of a white Hilux was shot in the leg while driving down a Palmerston street more than a week ago, NT Police said, as investigations continue into who fired the gun from outside a home.
Floods from the recent heavy rains have washed crocodiles into flooded areas and shut sections of the Victoria and Buntine Highways through to Timber Creek and towards the WA border, prompting NT Emergency Services to issue a warning to travellers.
The NT Government awarded $1.9 billion to companies and individuals in 2023 through 1,662 public and select tenders, an NT Independent analysis of government documents shows, which includes lucrative contracts to CDU, construction companies and one lawyer also made the top 10 this year.
A teenage boy was arrested after allegedly threatening an employee of a Katherine service station with a knife, and robbing the business, NT Police said.
The 2.5km stretch of the Adelaide to Darwin railway track that was damaged due to flood waters has been repaired ahead of schedule, enabling the resumption of backlogged freight services through Tennant Creek to Darwin, the government has said.
Charles Darwin University has produced hydrogen for the first time in a collaboration with Pacific Energy at the university’s renewable energy facility at East Arm.
