EDITORIAL: Education Minister Eva Lawler’s tired defence for the broken Northern Territory education system she and her cabinet colleagues have overseen for the last seven consecutive years – and 18 of the last 22 – is typical of this government that can’t accept responsibility for anything or even admit there’s a problem anywhere in the Territory.
Today’s national news includes Voice to Parliament will be ‘very good’ for Australia, Australia accused by France of menacing NATO relationship, Repairing and reusing products as a new norm amid rising inflation, and Virgin Australia and Sri Lankan Airlines entering an interline agreement.
A 24-year-old man who allegedly raped a woman near the Darwin bus exchange on Thursday afternoon was on the loose for hours without the public being informed, before he was finally apprehended by police at Casuarina last evening, NT Police said.
A former senior Labor adviser has warned Chief Minister Natasha Fyles about making amendments to the ICAC Act while members of her government are under investigation for alleged improper conduct in connection to the 2020 election campaign, suggesting the Labor Government has lost its “courage and conviction” to do the right thing.
Investigations are ongoing into the deadly Stuart Highway crash that killed six people, including an infant, in the worst road crash the Territory has seen in over 15 years, NT Police said.
The continued sustainability and prosperity of the Territory’s estimated $270 million recreational fishing and tourism sector is dependent on catch quotas and licence buybacks being introduced, along with gillnets being phased out, the Amateur Fishermen’s Association of the Northern Territory has said.
NT WorkSafe has dropped industrial manslaughter charges and lesser charges against Theofilos Kalidonis, director of Kalidonis NT Pty Ltd, three years after a workplace fatality in Maningrida.
The fallout from a real estate agent allegedly hitting the Chief Minister in the face with a cream-filled crepe appears to have reached peak madness, with Suzi Milgate now banned by NT Parliament amid claims of “terrorist” behaviour and the makers of CU in the NT t-shirts issuing a limited edition “cream pie” shirt to commemorate the assault.
Roughly 2,000 public servants are still in a state of uncertainty after the NT Government continues to stall on approving the funds for their backpay despite an agreement having been settled with the workers, the union representing the workers says.
The co-chair of the Uluru Statement and a key proponent of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Pat Anderson was forced by the NT’s corruption watchdog to re-establish a legally-mandated Indigenous advisory board to the Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education which she chairs, however close to a year after agreeing, the organisation will not say what progress has been made.
Creditors have voted to wind up the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, a well-placed source has said, with financial records showing the organisation continued to provide services despite almost $2 million in funding for those services having been withheld, with money being shuffled from elsewhere in the organisation to cover the shortfall.
A man has survived after he was hit by a car and thrown up to 20 metres through the air and off the Channel Island bridge, landing on the rocks below, the media has reported.
