The NT Cattlemen’s Association has been forced to publicly acknowledge it works with Indigenous people and employs women in leadership roles as part of a “diverse and modern” NT cattle industry, following comments from NT Administrator and former NTCA president David Connolly, who claimed on Monday that his racist, sexist and homophobic social media posts, that also included joking about domestic violence and date rape, were a reflection of “the pastoral world”.
A federal parliamentary inquiry into “racism, hate and violence directed at First Nations people” has been struck amid a “reported increase” of online racism directed at Indigenous Australians that will report back by September, NT Senator and Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy has announced.
A 25-year-old Palmerston man has been arrested and charged after a raid of his home yesterday uncovered child abuse and animal sexual abuse material, NT Police said.
AirAsia will discontinue its Darwin to Bali and Kuala Lumpur routes less than a year after launching due to operating below a 70 per cent load factor, making them economically unsustainable, the company has indicated, while the NT Government has pledged to review its taxpayer-funded air subsidy scheme in the wake of the cancelled routes.
UPDATED: NT Police have located 20-year-old Murphy Ward who escaped from Corrections while in the custody of private firm G4S on Monday afternoon, but police had failed to inform the public that Ward was recently charged with a series of violent crimes, including aggravated assault and choking, strangling and suffocating.
A woman suffering “visible head injuries” is in hospital in a serious condition after being struck by a car in Tennant Creek this morning, with two men in their 20s later arrested, NT Police said.
Administrator David Connolly says he was a “naive cattleman” mixed up in the high stakes world of “agri-politics” when he made controversial social media comments disparaging Aboriginal people, women and the LGBTQI community and joked about domestic violence and date rape, which he said was “pastoral world” talk, while his former employer at Tipperary Station has provided some insight into why he left the station manager role last year.
A 15-year-old male has been arrested in connection to the alleged assault of a female staff member at Tennant Creek High School on Monday, NT Police said.
A 30-year-old man was arrested Sunday morning with an “edged weapon” in his possession after he allegedly approached a woman heading to her car in an underground car park at a Palmerston shopping centre before assaulting her while trying to take her car, NT Police said.
Outgoing CDU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman’s legacy of a London campus has been scrapped after the university spent nearly $2 million on the flawed project and hired three of Mr Bowman’s mates with taxpayer money to run it, the university has said, while questions to its council about how it allowed the proposal to proceed have been ignored.
EDITORIAL: David Connolly made the whole affair worse on Friday morning in his first speech as Administrator with his condescending attitude while his supporters surely cringed when he attempted to speak in language and talked about his great and deep respect for Indigenous culture. We all knew it was a lie, which made it all the more grotesque.
David Connolly was sworn in as the next Administrator of the Northern Territory Friday morning in a red carpet ceremony, starting his tenure by saying he wanted to thank the Larrakia people and “pay respects to them all, past and present”, while outside a Larrakia elder was arrested at what was a peaceful protest of more than a hundred people, which descended into brief chaos after the arrest.
