The remains of the so-called ‘baby in the post’ have been exhumed close to sixty years after his body was sent to the Darwin Post Office, the media has reported.
Trip around the Nation: Free to Read National News for November 24
Today’s national news includes Foreign Minister Penny Wong reaffirming the government’s commitment to ensuring appropriate security checks are in place for the Palestinians granted Australian visas, Australia’s inflation of 5.4 per cent is within the government’s control, Origin’s top investor junks Brookfield’s revised $10.6 B bid, and Batik Air Malaysia and AirAsia are increasing connectivity between Malaysia and Australia.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage will not recuse herself from Walker inquest
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has ruled that she will not recuse herself from presiding over the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker saying that she was not persuaded a fair-minded lay person would think she was not impartial.
Fyles flees press conference amid growing shares scandal
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has followed her predecessor and fled from the NT Independent at a press conference Wednesday morning, leaving in the government SUV so quickly that her media adviser was left standing in the road.
Chopper owned by Matt Wright ‘probably’ crashed because it ran out of fuel, conflicting accounts of its refueling
An Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation has found a helicopter owned by crocodile wrangler Matt Wright “probably” crashed because it ran out of fuel mid-air, with maintenance non-compliance also increasing risk levels for much of the company’s flying, and engine defects likely affecting the chopper’s fuel consumption.
Fyles’ shares scandal not the first for NT Parliament; CLP minister resigned in 2016 for breaching code of conduct
“What is the point of a code of conduct when you see behaviour like this go completely undisciplined,” Territory Labor asked Parliament in 2016, when a CLP minister breached ministerial rules in a private shares scandal. Three days later he resigned. For five days now, Chief Minister Fyles has remained silent on her own breach of the ministerial code of conduct. READ WHAT HAPPENED IN 2016 HERE.
Trip around the Nation: Free to Read National News for November 22
Today’s national news includes the Northern Territory crime rate at a 10-year high, Superannuation fund Rest will invest $1 billion into Australian-owned renewable energy investor and developer Quinbrook, Australian federal government releases 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy, and Aussie workers missing out on $131 billion in unpaid overtime.
Mandorah jetty project balloons from $24m to $63m
The Fyles Government has awarded a $63 million contract to build the new Mandorah jetty and undertake the associated works, which is $39 million more than it estimated it would cost in 2017, and comes four and a half years after the government declared it a priority project.
Virgin to open flights to Uluru as exorbitant airfares from Darwin continue
Virgin Australia will commence direct flights to Uluru from Melbourne and Brisbane starting June 6 next year, but they will not provide any remedy for ongoing skyrocketing domestic ticket prices that soared more than $3,000 one-way from Darwin recently.
Group of males assault bus passenger, threaten him with machete after stealing gold necklace: Police
Police are calling for the public’s help to identify a “group of unknown males” who allegedly stole a male passenger’s gold necklace before forcing him off the bus, where they assaulted and threatened him with a machete.
‘It’s a clear breach’: National integrity expert calls for review of Fyles’ conduct
EXCLUSIVE: A national integrity expert has called on the Labor Government’s Cabinet team to immediately deal with Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ “clear breach” of the NT ministerial code of conduct for failing to divest her shares in gas giant Woodside Energy when she obtained them last year.
Think tank calls for federal government to stop funding NSW and Victoria to the detriment of the NT and Tasmania
Remote councils in New South Wales receive over six times more federal government financial assistance grants per person than remote NT councils which undermines their ability to maintain their roads, a new report by the Grattan Institute has found.