NT WorkSafe has dropped six charges of reckless conduct risking death or injury against the partnership that owns Little Miss Korea restaurant a court has been told, but six counts of failure to comply with health and safety duties remain, the media has reported.
Territorians are invited to participate in the tenth annual Aussie Bird Count, which asks people to spend 20 minutes bird spotting using a bird finder app.
Three acting local court judges John McBride, Carly Ingles, and Ben O’Loughlin have been appointed to the NT Local Court to “alleviate pressures on the justice system and provide better justice outcomes”, the Attorney General has said.
Today’s national news includes the failed Indigenous Voice poll to setback Australia’s bid to be a republic, Defence Minister Marles saying that Australia cannot be a passive bystander if a war erupts between the US and China, Prime Minister Albanese warns of economic crisis, and LiSTNR is still no.1 podcast network.
Territory Labor has cancelled its annual conference 10 months out from the next election, with several sources saying the party’s elected members are too afraid to face the rank-and-file over a number of issues, including the Fyles Government’s poor environmental track record.
The ongoing coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker will not proceed next week as scheduled after Coroner Elisabeth Armitage ordered the sittings be vacated to provide her more time to consider Zach Rolfe’s application calling on her to recuse herself for “apprehended bias”.
Education Minister Eva Lawler should resign immediately over her failure to fix the Territory’s public education system, Independent MLA Robyn Lambley has said in Parliament, while accusing Ms Lawler and her Labor Cabinet colleagues of being “too lazy and too incompetent” to care about the crumbling system.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles misled Territorians about her government’s actions to keep the public safe in a series of Facebook posts, while the community was on edge following a spate of deadly stabbings, the Auditor General has found.
The Northern Territory is adopting the national emergency warning system for cyclones, storms, floods, extreme heat, and bushfires, the Northern Territory Emergency Services has said.
The CLP has formed a “working group” to analyse the Northern Territory Treaty Commission’s final report, including the recommendation for the establishment of a First Nations government which would be independent of the NT Government, party president Shane Stone has said.
Early evenings, or wet season mornings, are the best times to survey feral pigs in the NT using aerial drone systems and GPS, a new Charles Darwin University study shows, with one researcher saying the knowledge could enhance population assessment accuracy, and enable effective wildlife management and conservation.
The Barkly Regional Council has been placed under management by Local Government Minister Chanston Paech following calls by a former councillor in the NT Independent for the minister to sack the members, which also follows a video of Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin sitting on a child while another man yelled at him, threatened him, and forced his head down with a boot.
