A crime spree in Alice Springs over the weekend that saw multiple cars set on fire and businesses ram-raided have citizens terrified and calling on the Federal Government to take real action to restore order to the town less than two months after a visit from the Prime Minister.
EDITORIAL: It is not in the political parties’ interests to fix the Territory’s crime problem, so we need to take the politics out of the debate and start looking at solutions that already exist.
Godfrey Alan ‘Goff’ Letts, who became the Majority Leader in the newly minted Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory in 1974, died on March 10, aged 95. Dr Robyn Smith writes about his life.
UPDATED: Two Palmerston bottle shops have allegedly been held up in a series of attacks on Thursday, with a credit card stolen from staff at one after they were threatened with having their “throats slit”, and alcohol stolen at a second shop where a large kitchen knife was brandished, NT Police said, which follows the stabbing death of a bottle-shop employee in Darwin on Sunday.
There are not enough beds for mental health patients in the psychiatric unit in Darwin for patients to receive safe and timely treatment, leading to the “rare” practice of intubating patients, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation, NT Branch said.
BWS stores across the Northern Territory will be closing at 6 pm starting today, while the Airport Tavern BWS store – where Declan Laverty was stabbed to death on Sunday – will remain closed indefinitely, the company’s owner has said.
The first batch of US Marines has arrived in Darwin for the 12th rotation of the Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) which will see up to 2,500 marines conducting military exercises with the Australian Defence Force and regional partner nations over the next seven months.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has dispelled fresh rumours that he has resigned, or plans to resign, claiming the latest rumour was started by “anti-vaxxers and people with agendas”.
Fossils of an early relative of the wombat with a powerful bite and a possum with unusually large fangs have been discovered in the Northern Territory by palaeontologists from Flinders University that have helped solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle.
Today’s national news includes Australian fisheries yield to drop due to climate change, Western Australia being dubbed as the ‘rough sleeping capital of Australia, and United States Marines arriving in the Northern Territory for combined military exercises. Also in the news are social media influencers facing uncertainty as TikTok faces a ban threat in Australia, and singer Lizzo drops a bombshell regarding her performance tour in Australia.
The mother of the man stabbed to death at the Airport Tavern on Sunday allegedly had a rock and racial abuse hurled at her outside the Darwin Woolworths only hours after flying into the city after the death of her son, while her brother was allegedly spat on in the face and was threatened with being cut up with a machete, a police source has told the NT Independent.
The Fyles Government rejected an Opposition Bill two years ago that would have made it more difficult for repeat and violent offenders to be granted bail, while today pledging to review bail laws in light of the recent stabbing death of a young bottle shop employee, while also killing a proposed public inquiry into police resources despite claiming it will also review police powers.
