A confidential Cabinet document photographed in Police Minister Kate Worden’s hands appears to show the Fyles Government intends to cut the police budget in the middle of a crime crisis by $16 million next financial year and a staggering $31 million over the subsequent three financial years, with “frontline staff reductions” expected, the NT Independent can reveal.
A man who threatened a worker with a syringe after stealing “a quantity of alcohol” from a Cavenagh Street business on Sunday afternoon has been arrested and charged with aggravated robbery, NT Police said.
Darwin and regional Northern Territory have seen the biggest declines in new rental listings nationwide in the past 12 months, the latest PropTrack Rental Report has revealed.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected Charles Darwin University’s enterprise agreement because it said up to 151 casual employees who were ineligible to vote were inappropriately provided with access to the ballot.
Two males, aged 17 and 20, were charged with aggravated unlawful entries in two separate incidences in Alice Springs yesterday that involved the pair allegedly abusing seniors in their homes, NT Police said.
Territory Police are investigating a deadly crash that claimed the life of a 20-year-old woman after her vehicle rolled over on the Stuart Highway south of Darwin yesterday afternoon.
The NT Utilities Commission has temporarily suspended Queensland-based QEnergy’s electricity retail license in the Territory under section 36 of the Electricity Reform Act effective from January 23.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has set March 18 as the date for the Arafura by-election, following a state funeral that will be held on March 1 for the former member who died late last month.
Outgoing NT Administrator Vicki O’Halloran has scheduled a “ceremonial farewell” for herself on Monday that will involve a marching band, a flag ceremony and a police motorcade in a government car that her office is encouraging Territorians to assemble for as she does “one final circuit around the State Square precinct”, while the cost to taxpayers has not been disclosed.
Barkly Regional Council has refused to release details of a review into the council’s “people systems” and “business processes” undertaken by an outside law firm, which was announced in the wake of media reports of a “flood of resignations amid bullying and mismanagement claims” primarily focused on CEO Emma Bradbury and Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin.
Two men were charged with domestic violence offences in separate incidences in Casuarina and Palmerston, NT Police have said.
NT Police have sent their special tactical team to a remote community in the West Daly region following the discovery of two males with gunshot wounds in two separate incidents on Wednesday.
