Most supermarkets in the Darwin area have fresh produce and other food on the shelves again after road trains were permitted to pass along the Stuart Highway on Monday, the Chief Minister says, but the road will continue to be closed intermittently as crews repair the damage from flooding, while a major section of the rail line north of Tennant Creek is not expected to be operational for another two weeks.
Some Indigenous people in Alice Springs have been forced to defend themselves in court because of a shortage of lawyers at legal aid services, the ABC has reported.
Core Lithium will hold an analyst and investor conference on today via Webcast following the release of its December Quarterly Activities Report, amid expectations that Australian lithium prices will continue their decline with increased Chinese competition.
Former speaker Mark Monaghan should pay back taxpayers the thousands he secretly approved for two of his Labor colleagues to take holidays at taxpayer expense after an independent statutory body ruled that his decision to permit the use of government cars and fuel cards for personal interstate travel was inappropriate, an independent MLA says.
NT Corrections recruited 150 personnel last year with 50 newly graduated prison officers also coming on board last week, the Corrections Commissioner says, but the department is still struggling to get on top of record levels of inmates and the persistent problems of overcrowding and low staff retention rates.
Today’s national news includes the Greens saying that stage-three tax cuts will add to inflation, former PM Morrison saying he will be leaving politics, Australia joining the United States and the United Kingdom in a new effort to place financial sanctions on Hamas, and median rent in Australia has broken the $600 a week mark.
A new free footy-themed fitness program aimed at cutting down on soaring heart-related hospital admissions in the NT – a figure twice as high as the national average – will launch next month as the Aussie Fans in Training (Aussie-FIT) program comes to town.
UPDATE: The Victoria Hwy remains closed while the Adelaide-Darwin railway line has also been damaged about 50km north of Tennant Creek from floodwaters as the government opened the Stuart Highway temporarily on Monday to allow up to 50 road trains full of fresh produce and other supplies up to Darwin supermarkets.
Three people have been hospitalised amid ongoing unrest in Wadeye over the weekend, which has reportedly seen up to 300 people fighting in the community with homemade weapons and vehicles, NT Police said.
Today’s national news includes Australia securing new gas deals for east coast energy markets, a ‘golden visa’ arrangement for wealthy investors axed, a severe cyclone to hit Queensland on Thursday, and Turkish Airlines to launch flights to Australia this March.
A massive expansion of the Territory’s gas industry in the Beetaloo Basin and at the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct could emit more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the next 25 years, casting doubts on the NT Labor Government’s pledge to achieve its net zero emissions target by 2050, climate experts have said.
Police had to shoot crocodiles to allow them to recover a ute with a man’s body inside from a creek at Dundee Downs on Friday afternoon, after the vehicle crashed into the water near a boat ramp on Thursday afternoon, NT Police said.
