The Fyles Government has extended its un-costed Vietnam trade mission to include a stopover in the Philippines for three days with “Minister of International Education” Ngaree Ah Kit joining the Deputy Chief Minister and two senior public servants to attract students from Manila to the NT.
UPDATED: The owner of a local gardening business charged with murder over the stabbing death of Leanyer business owner and mother Sheena Fairfield has fronted court.
An amphibious aircraft company the Fyles Government invested $10 million in that they claim will be a key driver of the NT’s economy in the coming years will truck up a 60-year-old plane from Victoria to house at an old hangar at the Darwin Airport, raising questions about the previously proposed Darwin Aerospace Manufacturing Precinct.
The Fyles Government says six international hotel operators and investors have shown “strong interest” in the proposed new hotel at the waterfront, but the government could not say if any had submitted a formal expression of interest.
Houses being built as part of the $2.1 billion Remote Housing Program are built to last half the lifespan of a typical home, the Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities has confirmed, as concerns grow that the government is cutting corners to meet a federal deadline to access funding.
The costs of an NT Government trade delegation to Vietnam involving Trade Minister Nicole Manison, Investment Commissioner Andy Cowan and Department of Industry chief executive Shaun Drabsch have not been publicly released, in contravention of the Labor Government’s own travel disclosure policy.
Four months after being hit by a learner driver’s car in a hit-and-run in Berrimah, a 40-year-old woman has died from injuries she sustained in the incident, NT Police said on Monday.
The NT Government is looking to the Philippines and India to supply 600 skilled overseas workers for the Territory’s lagging construction sector “in the coming months”, which will see taxpayers pay another $200,000 for local construction companies to fly to those countries this week to attract workers.
A 15-year-old male has been arrested after allegedly threatening a 26-year-old woman and 16-year-old girl and dragging the woman from a car as they attempted to flee the male on Friday afternoon in the Darwin CBD.
Alice Springs residents were still picking up from the damage Sunday night caused by a violent “microburst” thunderstorm that tore through the town late Saturday afternoon, leaving homes severely damaged, one school with its roof torn off and at least 80 residences still without power as of last night.
The woman found dead in her northern suburbs front yard on Thursday afternoon from multiple injuries sustained by a “sharp-edged type weapon” has been identified as a local businesswoman and mother, whose young child was at home at the time of the attack.
A man who was sleeping in his Moulden front yard early Saturday morning for undisclosed reasons had his slumber abruptly interrupted when he was run over by an unknown vehicle that smashed through the fence, sending him to hospital with multiple injuries, NT Police said.
