The Darwin Street Art Festival will feature Irish artist Aches, who produces large scale psychedelic murals around the world, along with Australian artists Adnate, Filthy Ratbag, Jeswri, Gonketa, and Kitt Bennett, the organisers have announced.
Calls for more NT Government accountability after $40m school funds stoush
The Australian Education Union NT said it welcomes the Federal Government’s $40 million equity fund to Alice Springs schools – part of the $250 million package to tackle crime in the region – but called for more accountability on the part of the NT Government after it changed its story on how the funds will be distributed.
EDITORIAL: What the ICAC’s compromised Labor corruption investigation means for the Territory
How is it that we have to be asking questions about the NT anti-corruption body’s integrity, while our government is under investigation for serious corruption and while other fundamental legal agencies such as the police and the Office of the DPP have also repeatedly failed to act with integrity?
Darwin sees highest CPI increase in country for June quarter
Darwin’s consumer price index rose by 1.2 per cent – the highest increase of all cities for the June quarter – due in part to prevailing high commodity prices and services, figures released by the Department of Treasury and Finance show.
Labor to strengthen sex offence laws, now outlaws what it did to protect child sex offender
The Fyles Labor Government will today “strengthen and modernise” its sexual offence laws, it said, including forbidding good character references for child sex offenders for reduced sentences, a practice Labor engaged in last year during sentencing of its former party secretary for repeatedly raping a child.
Fowl play: Labor MLA calls for justice for dead peacock he was in “awe” of
Labor MLA Brent Potter has issued an impassioned public plea for information about what he alleges is the suspicious death of a peacock in his electorate that he had been in “awe” of for its “beauty and elegance”.
Charges against NT Police media adviser suddenly dropped mid-trial
Charges against an NT Police Fire and Emergency Services media unit employee have been suddenly dropped mid-trial by the prosecution.
‘Errors have been made’: ICAC investigation into Labor corruption in limbo as allegations of political influence raised
Allegations of political influence in the ICAC’s investigation into Labor’s alleged misuse of public funds during the 2020 NT election have been raised by independent MLAs, following revelations a party member with undisclosed conflicts of interest was involved, while Commissioner Michael Riches has admitted “errors have been made”.
CDU study finds more rubbish than expected washing up on beaches in Gulf of Carpentaria
Researchers at Charles Darwin University have found green turtles use coastal cues to help them migrate, and are not driven by ocean currents as scientists had believed, while they also found there is a lot more rubbish washing up on northern Australian beaches than previously thought.
Trip around the Nation: Free to Read National News for July 26
Today’s national news includes ACT appointing the first Indigenous female SC judge, China’s trade curbs having almost no effect on Australian GDP, and Uluru is the best place in the world to watch a sunset.
Government declares some Darwin northern suburbs ‘high risk’ areas for weapons scanners
The Fyles Government has declared 10 new “high risk areas” in the Darwin northern suburbs where police will be permitted to use handheld weapon detectors on people suspected to be carrying knives and other weapons.
Fuel card rorts: Speaker’s ruling on fuel card usage secretly posted two days before Christmas
Speaker Mark Monaghan’s decision to permit two of his Labor colleagues to use their taxpayer-funded fuel cards for personal interstate holidays was issued secretly on December 23 to an internal government server with no notice – five days after one MLA had already embarked on his trip – and nine days before it came into effect, new documents show.