Today’s national news includes Prime Minister Albanese slated for an official visit to the Philippines this September, Workers begin strike vote at Chevron’s LNG facilities, Origin Energy’s annual profit up by more than 83 per cent, and Five indigenous students chosen for NASA internship.
A 14-year-old boy who allegedly stole a bow and arrows from a store on Cavenagh Street in the middle of the afternoon reportedly fired one of the arrows at a security guard after being approached, NT Police said.
Today’s national news includes Japanese F-35s to be joining military exercise in Australia for the first time, Australia sending a warship to join the US, Philippine military drills, Sen Lidia Thorpe saying voice referendum should be called off, and Australia setting up Pacific Championship in rugby league diplomacy play.
Darwin Alderman Amye Un says the Mayor and Council CEO’s attempt this week to intimidate and silence her for criticising a Labor Minister is not the first time they have made false accusations against her, revealing a letter the Mayor wrote her last year in which he claimed the President of Timor-Leste had filed a formal complaint about her – a complaint he is unable to produce.
A Territory woman who was driving an uninsured car while seven times over the legal blood alcohol limit has been charged after smashing into a truck on a Malak street while trying to reverse her car on Monday evening, police said.
A 31-year-old Woodroffe man has been arrested at his home following an NT Police raid and is facing multiple child exploitation charges.
EXCLUSIVE: Previously redacted government documents related to the ongoing corruption probe into the NT Labor Government’s alleged misuse of public funds during the 2020 election have finally been released by the Office of the Chief Minister, exposing a Labor politician’s name who was onboard taxpayer-funded campaign flights that the government fought to keep secret for nearly two years.
The Australian Education Union has called on the Albanese Government to double its funding to NT public schools with the NT Government unable to say when it would meet previously agreed minimum school spending targets, with a current $227 million annual shortfall, in what the union called the shocking inequity of school resourcing in the Territory.
Artificial Intelligence is racist and sexist and could send higher education into a “global crisis” by accepting it is “intelligent”, warns a new research paper by a Charles Darwin University academic.
Darwin Alderman Amye Un says threats of disciplinary action by Council’s CEO and Mayor Kon Vatskalis for publicly criticising Labor Minister Paul Kirby and former alderman Paul Arnold on social media, is an attempt to “intimidate” and silence her.
A woman was “assaulted with an edged weapon” in her bedroom after being woken by intruders, leaving her with unspecified lower body injuries that were treated in Royal Darwin Hospital, with her attackers still on the run, NT Police said.
Today’s national news includes 15,000 New Zealanders applying for Australian citizenship, Japan entering a defence pact with Australia, Bankruptcy in Australia up 57 per cent, and Chinese airlines resuming flights to Brisbane.
