A new partly gas-industry funded CSIRO report says carbon produced from Beetaloo basin fracking could potentially be offset by carbon capture and storage based out of Darwin, but about a third of the potential total would have to be offset overseas which cannot yet be done, while a critic said the amount of emissions that can be abated has been grossly inflated.
A highly respected NT Police officer with more than 25 years of distinguished service to the Territory has been sacked by the police top brass for daring to criticise Commissioner Jamie Chalker and his executive management team in the NT Independent last year.
The Fyles Labor Government has moved a motion in Parliament to support the proposed Indigenous Voice to federal Parliament, in an attempt to wedge the Opposition CLP who say they will be abstaining from the vote despite reports of party members calling for the party to oppose the Voice.
Resources company Tivan has announced an agreement with the NT Government to enable a mineral-processing plant in the controversial Middle Arm precinct on Darwin Harbour, a month after the new executive chairman told the extraordinary general meeting he was elected at, if there was no change there was “a 100 per cent likelihood that the company would fail”.
The Fyles Government has shot down a motion to ban the consumption of alcohol in Parliament House, citing its own “high standards” and the Deputy Chief Minister’s assurances of “responsible behaviour” by fifth floor staffers.
The Fyles Government has voted against striking a parliamentary committee that would have investigated how the government spends federal money on Indigenous disadvantage, which was called for by the CLP, citing concerns about the recent federal cash boost of $250 million for Central Australia.
A senior doctor at a family practice in Darwin has been committed to stand trial on one count of rape and four counts of committing an act of gross indecency, the NT Independent can reveal.
The NT Government and the private sector have stepped up its global recruitment of workers as the jurisdiction’s worker shortage hits an estimated 5,000, impacting the mining, construction, and hospitality sectors.
Seafarms Group’s $1.5 billion flagship development Project Sea Dragon has entered voluntary administration after almost 10 years of capital raising and speculation about its viability, amid millions in NT taxpayer subsidies being spent on the project.
A developer plans to construct several eight-storey apartment blocks for students at Darwin’s Frog Hollow park that it says will meet student accommodation demand with a government-estimated 10,000 international students expected to come over the next few years.
Talks between the Fyles Government and the NT Police Association on a new pay deal appear to have broken down, as the union revealed the preliminary findings of its latest member survey that shows a large number of officers are contemplating leaving the NT and the same number support strike action.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has introduced her government’s new alcohol ban legislation for remote communities on urgency in Parliament that will effectively reinstate former federal laws that lapsed last year, following weeks of pressure and amid a spike in crime and alcohol-related assaults in Alice Springs.
