The Housing Industry Association NT has warned that the NT Government’s move to alter the national building codes could result in up to a $20,000 increase in the cost to build a new house in the Territory.
Topless woman found a few hours after police called for public assistance
NT Police have found an allegedly topless woman just hours after issuing a statement seeking public assistance in locating her.
Fatal Failures: Rolfe should not have been in the IRT, ‘likely’ would not have been recruited if truthful in application, report shows
EXCLUSIVE: Constable Zach Rolfe would not have been recruited into the police force if he had been honest about his military disciplinary history, and the impact of undisclosed medication he was taking for a “psychiatric condition” in the months before shooting and killing Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu will never be known, a draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police states.
Man presumed stabbed in street as police search for female perpetrator
A 28-year-old man is in hospital after what appears to be a stabbing, in a domestic violence incident, that police media reported as an “assault with an edged weapon”, indicating that the man “suffered serious injuries to his upper chest”.
Cause of medical supplies warehouse inferno revealed
A massive fire that burned for days at a government medical supplies warehouse in Berrimah was caused by a “malfunction of an electrical item”, investigators said on Friday.
Letter to the Editor: Richard Rolfe responds to internal police report about Constable Zach Rolfe
OPINION: Once the NT Police Commissioner decided to throw a courageous and decorated junior Constable under the bus, there has been no respite from how low Chalker has been prepared to go to destroy Constable Zachary Rolfe, writes Richard Rolfe.
Chalker says problems not his fault, only 50 per cent of cops ‘really’ have no confidence in him
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has showed no contrition for the problems facing the NT Police force and downplayed the results of a damning survey that found 80 per cent of police respondents had no confidence in him, in his first media interview in more than five months.
Man arrested for drug and firearms offences in Pinelands
A 32-year-old man was arrested in Pinelands on Thursday after Drug and Organised Crime members stopped a vehicle being driven in a dangerous manner along Stuart Highway around 5 pm, NT Police said.
Darwin bucks nationwide housing price decline trend
Darwin is the only capital city in the country that did not record a drop in housing prices despite a 1.6 per cent decline recorded in August across all other capital cities, with regional areas across the country showing the sharpest monthly price decline since 1983.
Work progresses on the Territory’s largest fuel storage project
Construction of 11 fuel storage tanks at the Crowley Bulk Fuel Storage Facility at East Arm, has seen the final ring beam poured last month.
Fyles Government kills public inquiry into police, says it is currently restructuring force
The Fyles Government has rejected calls for a parliamentary inquiry into the ongoing crisis in NT Police, saying it is currently undertaking a financial and structural reorganisation of the police force that will “get to the bottom” of the problems.
Fatal Failures: Bombshell NT Police internal document reveals massive failures in shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker
EXCLUSIVE: A draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police and obtained by the NT Independent has revealed the shocking extent of police failures in the hours before the shooting death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker in November 2019, including that two of the senior officers in charge of deploying the taskforce that raided his home did not understand how the Immediate Response Team functioned nor how it should be deployed.