The Country Liberal Party has announced Tiwi Island Regional Council deputy mayor Leslie Tungatalum as their candidate for next month’s Arafura by-election, who will be running against Labor’s Manuel Brown.
Woman in critical condition, two dogs dead after being hit by vehicle
A woman is in a critical condition in hospital, a man has minor injuries, and two dogs are dead, after being hit by a vehicle at Bees Creek, NT Police have said.
NT Police officers injured after ‘sickening’ axe attack in remote community
Two NT Police officers have suffered injuries after an axe was allegedly thrown at a police vehicle in Daly River during chaotic scenes in the community involving a group driving stolen vehicles armed with weapons.
Students banned from Casuarina Square after days of violent attacks
Casuarina Square shopping centre has imposed a 48-hour ban on students from six Darwin senior and middle schools after fighting erupted inside the mall between Wednesday and Friday last week.
‘No progress made to provide verifiable data to evaluate Buy Local Plan’: New report
The NT Buy Local Advocate has once again been unable to conclude whether the Buy Local Plan increased government procurement through Territory businesses because of a lack of reliable and verifiable data, while his annual report also states some agencies have no way of judging if contractors provided what they were paid to do.
Only one permanent paramedic in Tennant Creek union says, St John refuse to answer questions
St John Ambulance NT has refused to respond to a union claim there are no regular Tennant Creek-based paramedics, and those who are brought in have to work 96-hour on-call rosters, but four-and-a-half hours after questions were sent, the organisation issued a press release saying they had started a recruiting drive for remote areas.
Woman found dead in Casuarina car park
NT Police are investigating the circumstances that led to the suspicious death of a 37-year-old woman who was found in a Casuarina car park on Saturday afternoon.
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Business Minister admits he does not know the size of the NT economy, gets Budget spend wrong by $1.3 billion
Business and Jobs Minister Paul Kirby could not say what the Territory economy was worth on a radio show, and guessed the government’s expenditure incorrectly by more than a billion dollars, when asked how the government was going to reach its “target” of a $40 billion economy in the face of major projects collapsing.
Vietnamese airline looks to establish Darwin, Adelaide routes in ‘coming year’
Vietnamese low-cost carrier VietJet Air is growing its routes to Australia and plans to add direct flights to Ho Chi Minh City from Darwin soon.
‘Unreasonable and appalling’: Union says sacking senior officer contravenes police’s disciplinary system
The NT Police top brass’s decision to sack long-serving Sergeant Mark Casey for voicing his opinion about Jamie Chalker’s leadership was “unreasonable” and is not in line with the executive’s commitment to improve the health and wellbeing of its members, the union representing police officers has said.
MLA drops explosive allegations in Parliament about Chalker’s influence on ICAC investigations
Labor MLA Mark Turner has used parliamentary privilege to air explosive allegations that a senior NT Police officer inferred that Jamie Chalker had intimidated the ICAC with his “appendage” to make investigations go away and that a police inquiry into unsafe homes in Bellamack was not proceeding because the officer dismissed it as “cheap housing for poor people”.