The Anindilyakwa Land Council has not met its obligations to make sure traditional owners understand high value development proposals they consent to on their land, and its distributions of royalty money lack transparency, an Australian National Audit Office report has found, but the council has dismissed the recommendations on how to be more transparent.
Today’s national news includes Victoria to tax short-stay accommodation platforms, El Nino declared amid unseasonal heat, Interactive Brokers Australia levied $538,000 for laxity in a doubtful trading case, and an investigation into Australian Bishop accused of child sex abuse launched.
A man has been charged with murder and two other charges over the stabbing in Darwin city on Saturday night, NT Police said.
A plan to construct an affordable public housing complex on the old Asti Hotel site in Larrekayh has been replaced with a new application for a multi-level residential development, the media has reported.
Ten new ‘hydro panels’ have been installed in the central Australian community of Irrkerlantye to provide drinking water, not-for-profit Children’s Ground has said.
NT Police has suppressed the theft of an NT Fire and Rescue Service firefighting ute, that sources have said was believed to be stolen by members of the Peppimenarti-based Jovi Boys, three days after the Police Commissioner and the Territory Response Group visited the remote community to crack down on the gang.
CareFlight has been given $19.95 million by the federal government to buy a second helicopter and an aeromedical jet, Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler has said.
The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education has settled a compensation claim made by its former chief financial officer but it has not disclosed how much they paid her after she took the institute to the Federal Court over her dismissal.
NT WorkSafe is inquiring if it is within its jurisdiction to investigate a crash at the Territory Quad Association’s Northern Territory ATV state titles at Hidden Valley on Sunday.
NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has attempted to quell calls for a public inquiry into allegations a senior detective perverted the course of justice in the Zach Rolfe murder investigation by referring the matter to Victoria Police for review, which an independent MLA said does not go far enough.
Mad Snake Cafe owner Sam Weston has been elected as the new Lyons Ward councillor after a tight by-election race that came down to preferences.
Barkly Region residents affected by the large bushfire which has burnt over 1.3 million hectares can apply for various assistance services, including emergency financial support, under a joint federal and NT government program.
