Today’s national news includes Australia increasing funding for East Timor police, Australia seeking investments from South Korea and Japan, Queensland’s families being hit by worsening cost of living crisis, and Australia lacking killer drones and counter-drone capability.
More than 80 Technical and Further Education courses across a broad range of sectors, including construction, child and aged care, and hospitality and tourism will be available at reduced fees for Territorians as part of a joint federal and Territory government program designed to upskill the workforce.
A two-kilometre section of the Stuart Highway that has been under repair for at least 10 months was not bituminised before the Wet season rains, which was the major cause of food supply disruptions in Darwin, the NT Independent understands, with the full extent of the situation not initially disclosed by the government.
The NT has once again ranked as the economic laggard among all states in terms of overall economic performance in the CommSec quarterly State of the States report, led by weakening key economic indicators in housing finance, construction and rising unemployment.
There were more than 100 people fighting, some with weapons, in Wadeye on Sunday, with one man hit in the leg with a crossbow bolt, NT police said.
Charles Darwin University is collaborating with the fishing industry in a project aiming to decrease the amount of threatened rays and sharks caught during net fishing in northern Australia.
Territory prisoners will be given vocational education and training by Charles Darwin University under a $1.7 million annual agreement signed with the Lawler Government, a contract that was previously held but lost by the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education in June last year.
UPDATED: Three of the five people involved in a two-vehicle crash on the Arnhem Highway remain in critical condition, with two children also injured, following the incident that occurred about 30km from the Stuart Highway turnoff at noon on Friday, NT Police said.
EXCLUSIVE: The Mayor of Alice Springs was threatened with an axe outside his next door neighbour’s home on Christmas Eve, sources have told the NT Independent, in an incident which comes amid a fraught situation for the troubled town, where crime has become the focus of national media attention and federal intervention.
Former small business minister Paul Kirby is the latest Labor MLA to announce his retirement from politics, issuing a statement on Thursday morning that he will not recontest his Port Darwin seat at the next election.
Technology glitches and legislative stuff-ups have been blamed for the delayed implementation of mandatory sentencing reforms that aim to abolish compulsory jail time minimums for assault, drug offences, and breaches of domestic violence orders, the Lawler Government has said.
Today’s national news includes Australia being seen to miss the 2030 renewable energy target, Australia’s population topping 27 million, Australia’s first batch of nuclear submariners, and Brainlabs buying independent digital media agency Sparro.
