Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeff McLaughlin has pleaded not guilty to possession and supply of cannabis, cultivating cannabis plants, and driving with THC in his body, charges that stemmed from two different roadside drug tests, while a charge of driving under the influence of the drug has been dropped, it has been reported.
Labor Speaker Mark Monaghan told Estimates he “certainly didn’t” seek advice from the independent statutory body that sets politicians’ entitlements when he secretly permitted two Labor MLAs to charge taxpayers for their interstate holidays, through what the Opposition called a “rort of the system for their personal gain”.
EXCLUSIVE: Member for Daly Dheran Young charged taxpayers thousands of dollars for a roadtrip back to his hometown in NSW for Christmas, just days after a secret ruling by Labor gave politicians the ability to use their government fuel cards interstate for personal travel.
EXCLUSIVE: Labor MLA Manuel Brown lied about rendering first aid to a woman he killed with his car in 2009, the victim’s family says, while demanding to know why the Chief Minister defended the man who took their mother’s life “as an excellent representative of the community” before she knew the facts of the horrific crash.
EXCLUSIVE: Territory Labor’s candidate for the upcoming Arafura by-election was charged in 2009 and later convicted in relation to killing a woman in Katherine with his car, the NT Independent can reveal.
A woman who fled into scrubland after running out of a car being pursued by police has been arrested and a handbag containing 43 grams of Cannabis seized as part of a remote roadblock operation on the Central Arnhem Highway, NT Police said.
The Fyles Government largely ignored its own interagency Domestic Violence taskforce’s recommendations on a raft of measures aimed at improving outcomes for victims of domestic violence, including funding only 11 per cent of the required expenditure for necessary programs, internal government documents show.
A CLP politician has accused a Labor backbencher of killing her friend and then changing his name to avoid scrutiny of his shady past. FULL STORY HERE
EXCLUSIVE: A damning coronial report critical of the criminal investigation into Zach Rolfe that former police commissioner Jamie Chalker tried to hide ahead of trial was significantly altered just two days after the NT Police brass discovered Mr Rolfe’s legal team knew of its existence, the NT Independent can reveal.
Today’s national news includes Australian Inflation slowing down, Australians fuming over high airfares, more than 160 public schools in SA being affected by strike action, and Lockheed bagging Australia’s $487 million missile shield program.
EXCLUSIVE: Kumanjayi Walker would “most likely” still be alive had NT Police followed proper training and policies in Yuendumu the night of November 9, 2019, a damning internal draft coronial report the Police Commissioner tried to suppress from the public, but obtained by the NT Independent, concluded.
NT WorkSafe has laid reckless conduct charges against a Queensland-based cattle company, and two of the company’s officers, after an employee’s arm was crushed – and later had to be amputated – while he was working on a Northern Territory station.
