Petrochemical production at Middle Arm is still part of an environmental impact assessment for the proposed industrial precinct, despite a scrub of government websites and Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’s recent denials that it would be part of the project, government documents show.
EXCLUSIVE: Senior Territory Labor figures, including a former deputy chief minister and the partner of a Supreme Court Justice, expressed their support for convicted paedophile Kent Rowe to the courts ahead of sentencing earlier this month because of his “successful” contributions to the party, the NT Independent can reveal.
Former NT chief health officer Dr Hugh Heggie will be the next Administrator of the Northern Territory, the Federal Government has announced.
Police are calling for the public’s assistance to identify a group of offenders who broke into seven locations overnight in Katherine, including two government buildings, and stealing a car that was driven dangerously around town, narrowly missing pedestrians.
Faced with an ongoing crime crisis across the Territory, the Fyles Government has made the NT the first jurisdiction in the country to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12.
Three Territory workers were seriously injured using power tools and machinery in separate incidents over the last two months, including horrific incidents involving an amputated arm, a metal grinder hitting a worker in the face and fractured bones involving a wood chipper, NT WorkSafe has said.
Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright has turned himself in to NT Police and has been formally charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, making threats to witnesses and destroying evidence, among other serious charges, in connection to a helicopter crash in West Arnhem Land in February that killed his mate and co-star Chris “Willow” Wilson.
A 44-year-old Palmerston man has been arrested by sex crimes detectives at his home for allegedly raping a child and producing child abuse material, NT Police said.
The role drones will play in logistic supply chains across Northern Australia will be at the centre of research and training at a new facility for drones established by Charles Darwin University and the North Australia Center for Autonomous Systems.
The NT’s Investment Commissioner has resigned suddenly, the NT Independent can confirm, with Andy Cowan offering his resignation on Monday.
The Northern Territory has posted the biggest decline in retail trade turnover in the country, with 1.8 per cent decline for October, another indication that Territory households continue to feel the stress of rapid inflation and mounting interest rates.
EXCLUSIVE: Convicted child rapist Kent Rowe resigned from the Territory Labor Party that he ran for more than a decade because of its “toxic environment and people”, the judge sentencing Rowe for predatory sex crimes was told earlier this month.
