An owner of one of the unsafe Bellamack homes says he was shocked to learn that a senior police officer had dismissed an investigation into the NT Government’s failure to take action on the controversial homes by referring to the public safety issue as “cheap housing for poor people”.
Eighty-five per cent of NT Police who responded to a union survey say they considered an exit strategy from the force in the last six to 12 months, the NT Police Association has said, and that 97 per cent of respondents did not believe there are enough police to do what is asked of them, following on from last year’s vote of no confidence in the Police Commissioner.
Barkly Regional Council chief executive officer Emma Bradbury has been given an extra week’s leave, Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin says, saying she was extending her leave because she had done such a good job and deserved it, which comes during an ongoing saga over allegations of bullying and mismanagement against the CEO and the mayor and an intervention by the NT Government.
The senior NT Police officer who was sacked for criticising Commissioner Jamie Chalker filed a misconduct report about an executive member in 2019 – resulting in disciplinary action being taken against him for reporting it – before he raised it again directly to Mr Chalker in 2020 with no apparent action taken on the complaint before he was fired, documents show.
Two men in their 20s have been charged for allegedly throwing an axe at two police officers in Nauiyu on Sunday, as the community descended into chaos over the weekend with armed men driving dangerously around the community in stolen vehicles.
Constable Zachary Rolfe breaks his silence in an opinion piece for the NT Independent, in which he explains those text messages, Commissioner Jamie Chalker’s legacy and how the ongoing coronial inquest is failing the community.
Artworks referred to as missing in a Independent Commissioner Against Corruption review of the Batchelor Institute have been stolen, a whistleblower has said, while the Commissioner has countered that his report “speaks for itself”.
We’ve revealed the biggest money winners of NT Government contracts, but which companies won the most contracts overall and which lawyer made the list after receiving nearly $700,000 in contracts? Which departments spent the most outsourcing their responsibilities? FIND OUT HERE.
Legal action against the former ICAC by a principal accused of misappropriating more than $500,000 has been revived after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling preventing the action.
In the wake of Mr Chalker’s yet-to-be-explained disappearance, this series examines his chaotic reign as top cop, bringing together all the failings, the lies, the alleged conspiracies, and mystifying public utterances. Today, we look at the ICAC investigating political interference in the Constable Zach Rolfe murder charge, serious problems with the use of force experts in that trial, a 9,000-signature petition calling for Mr Chalker to be sacked, and allegations he called firies greedy in a speech to trainees.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has lashed out at Labor Member for Blain Mark Turner, claiming the Labor caucus does not “trust him” – more than a year after she personally and officially cleared him of misleading Parliament.
The Action for Alice 2020 Facebook page has been suspended for 28 days, but its owner and local businessman Darren Clark said he will launch a new website on Tuesday and will also be taking to other social media platforms, while pointing the blame for the Facebook ban at Fyles Government operatives and the NT Police executive.
