OPINION: I can’t quite believe that I am now sitting down in front of my computer, to complain about an Australian government using similar tactics to those of oppressive regimes overseas, and even more staggered that I’m doing it two years on from when this saga first began; writes Peter Greste of the NT Government’s latest antics.
UPDATE: A 20-year-old man has been detained by police in connection to the death of an 18-year-old whose body was discovered early Saturday morning on the driveway of a Palmerston home, NT Police said.
The NT Police investigations into fatal crashes in Katherine and Yulara on Friday highlighted the lack of seatbelts as contributing factors in the deaths of three people who were ejected from their vehicles upon impact.
A new wastewater treatment plant is now operating in Darwin’s Shoal Bay waste facility to treat more than 50 megalitres per year of toxic chemicals found in wastewater.
The most senior executives in the NT public service will be attending an “executive ethics program” that has been billed as teaching the “capacity for moral courage” organised through the Department of Chief Minister and Cabinet at taxpayer expense.
Korab Resources has turned its focus on its mineral exploration activities in the Territory after the ongoing war in Ukraine placed its Bobrikovo mining project in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine at a standstill.
Spit hoods will be banned for minors in police custody, the Police Minister Kate Worden announced in a statement on Friday morning.
The woman who was sexually assaulted as a child for years by former Labor Party secretary Kent Rowe has told the NT Supreme Court she is “serving a life sentence” for the crimes he committed against her.
NT Police have closed their investigation into the discovery of a human skull north of Katherine, stating that the remains were from a “historic traditional burial”.
The NT Government has not amended the law to allow people to sue event organisers for negligence if they are injured by a car, despite Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison stating in 2018 that spectators being seriously burnt at the Red Centre Nats was “exactly the type of situation we need to look at”.
The ongoing saga of a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly assaulted on a bus and at the Casuarina bus exchange by three adults on Sunday evening has taken another turn, with police arresting and charging a new character in the drama.
A report into the Fyles Government’s minimum alcohol floor price could not definitively determine its sole effectiveness on minimising alcohol-related harm in the NT, citing “incomplete or missing data” at times, but the government has nevertheless claimed it a huge success and vowed to keep the policy in place.
