Charles Darwin University took two weeks to inform students about a privacy breach of their sensitive and personal information, including mental and family health, along with passport and visa details and financial records, warning them yesterday to watch out for potential scams involving the release of their personal details.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles needs to resign for breaching the public’s trust, the Opposition CLP says, following the NT Independent’s special investigation that revealed her secret shares in a mining company that presented a fresh undisclosed conflict of interest, while Labor is reportedly currently counting the numbers against the Chief Minister in the party room.
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Natasha Fyles secretly holds shares in the company that runs the Gemco manganese mine on Groote Eylandt, that she did not disclose to the public while refusing as Health Minister to investigate the suspected heavy metal poisoning of Indigenous Territorians on the island earlier this year, raising further integrity issues with her leadership and more undisclosed conflicts of interest, the NT Independent can reveal.
Today’s national news includes more US forces to be deployed in Australia under the AUKUS pact, hundreds affected by flood in northeastern Australia, Santos gets drilling approval for its Barossa gas project, and Turkish Airlines set to expand in Australia.
The Fyles Government’s announcement of a so-called “Territory Safety Division” to be based at the Nightcliff police station is purely for political reasons in the Chief Minister’s electorate, NT Police Association president Nathan Finn has said, while questioning how the officers would be recruited and funded.
Territory Families Minister Ngaree Ah Kit has admitted the child protection team is short-staffed by close to a third, but maintained they can provide 24-hour weekend staffing in Alice Springs while not able to say how many staff were rostered on each shift, which a local MLA has said would make it impossible for the government to deliver what they pledged.
The first four paramedics trained by Flinders University in the Northern Territory have graduated the university has said.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has confirmed her senior adviser with ties to the gas industry is being paid taxpayer money to help her win the next Territory election through a murky contract, but claims “no rules have been broken”, while party members have called for a change of leadership to clean up the Territory Labor Party, following the scandals and recent polling that shows Labor losing the next election.
Two Palmerston men have been arrested and charged after police raided their homes in Bakewell and Gray on November 29, where police found child abuse materials on their electronic devices, the Joint Anti-Child Exploitation Team (JACET) has said; while another man was arrested for transmitting child abuse material to people three states.
Offenders who commit crimes in Darwin and other urban centres can choose to be sentenced in their home remote community, as part of a new “community court sentencing” program implemented by the Fyles Government earlier this month, that sources say will silence victims, cut prosecutors out of the sentencing process and reduce the public’s awareness of how offenders are dealt with by the courts.
Today’s national news includes US Congress approving the sale of Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia, the US asking Australia to send warships to the Red Sea, Australia’s government expecting a much-improved budget bottom line this year, and a new migration strategy reducing to post-study work rights
A member of the NT Police executive has said an investigation into the alleged rape of a seven-year-old girl in Tennant Creek was not something the public “reasonably” needed to know about, appearing to contradict the agency’s official transparency guidelines, while police have refused to say when the alleged attack happened.
