Territory Business Minister Paul Kirby has said he has “written commitments” from the federal government pledging carbon offsets for fracking the Beetaloo basin, but also claimed that the gas companies would completely pay for the offsets themselves, in response to federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen saying he had no plans to be involved with creating offsets or offset infrastructure.
A planned six-week Supreme Court trial is expected to kick off as early as Wednesday that will examine whether NT Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne abused her office by inappropriately hiring a friend to a plum job as her second in charge.
Territory households and businesses will be slugged with higher electricity costs once Power and Water’s $987-million five-year plan to upgrade its power and water system is approved by the Australian Energy Regulator.
Qantas flights in and out of Alice Springs will be cut by 30,000 seats between March and October, Tourism Central Australia CEO Danial Rochford said, urging the NT Government to help bail out tourism operators in the embattled region following negative national media attention about the ongoing crime crisis in the town.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker’s lawyer has told the Coroner that Constable Zach Rolfe’s recent opinion piece was an attempt to “intimidate” police brass who will be testifying at the inquest this week, that he had “perverted the course of justice” by writing it and that “a robust consequence will follow” for publicly referring to the commissioner as a “clown”.
Barkly Regional Council has announced it has appointed an “interim” chief executive officer with Emma Bradbury being described as being on “extended leave”, a move which comes after multiple sources last week told the NT Independent she has been sacked.
Australia’s first $180 million MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone, dubbed Skippy, will soon be flying out of RAAF base Tindal in the Territory to do real-time intelligence gathering over the Pacific amid increasing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.
Three people have been arrested for allegedly stealing grog in two separate bottle shop robberies last week, including a woman who allegedly threatened staff with a spear, NT Police said.
Territory wages improved at a faster pace in the last quarter of 2022 amid a tight labour market, but not enough to plug the gap with inflation, which widened to a record level, according to new government figures.
The continuing tight supply of new houses is expected to put upward pressure on homes and rental prices in Darwin this year, the latest Herron Todd White “Month in Review” report said.
The NT Government has awarded a $6.1 million contract to design and construct a solar power generation and storage plant at Wurrumiyanga on the Tiwi Islands, which it said would generate half the community’s electricity.
Researchers in a Charles Darwin University study commissioned by the West Arnhem Regional Council, have said they have estimated the costs of different ways of removing the increasing amount of rubbish from very remote communities, some of which has been there for almost a century.
