NT Police Northern watch commander acting Senior Sergeant Neil Mellon, is in custody, multiple sources have told the NT Independent, with police media confirming an officer had been arrested and was expected to be charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and other alleged crimes.
A 21-year-old police officer has been charged with aggravated assault, NT Police have said, with media manager Rob Cross saying the information was released in accordance with the force’s transparency guidelines, despite another officer’s recent fraud charges still not being made public.
The family of Kumanjayi Walker have started a Go Fund Me page in an attempt to raise $400,000 to pay for lawyers and for expenses for his family Yuendumu community members to attend the coronial inquest into his death in Alice Springs.
Two more people have been charged with child abduction for their alleged role in the disappearance of five-year-old Grace Hughes, NT Police said, leaving the door open for more charges as they work to “identify all parties involved”.
A secret investigation by NT Police earlier this year resulted in former chief minister Michael Gunner dodging a $5,000 fine and instead being issued a warning for breaching the CHO’s directions, after a photo of him embracing an elderly woman without a mask was posted on social media, government documents show.
EDITORIAL: There is no way for Jamie Chalker to fix his handling of the 2019 Yuendumu shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker – identified as the number one issue by members for no confidence in him – and his actions since that time to lie to the public, suppress evidence, bully members and act dishonourably has irreparably disgraced the once proud NT Police force.
The NT’s teachers, firefighters, nurses, correctional officers and other workers will either walk off the job outright or send representatives to the “NT Public Sector Day of Action” on September 1, to protest the government’s proposed pay freeze, organisers have said.
The Federal Labor Government is investigating whether there was any “impropriety” in the lease of the Darwin Port to a Chinese-owned company, Labor MP Luke Gosling says, warning that some in Darwin will be “a bit nervous about the outcome” of the review.
A man and woman have been arrested following a drug bust at a rural Alice Springs property, with drug detectives finding more than $75,000 in cash, four firearms and ammunition, a “replica” automatic rifle and 4.3kgs of marijuana, NT Police said.
A massive proposed $4.5 billion green hydrogen project that could see 100,000 tonnes of compressed hydrogen produced on the Tiwi islands every year for export to the Asia-Pacific region has been given major project status by the NT Government.
Bone specimens from what was “arguably the largest bird ever to live on Earth” have been dug up near near Alice Springs, and show their size and breeding cycle could not keep pace with the environmental changes around them causing their extinction, vertebrate palaeontologists have concluded.
An NT police officer charged with fraud was moved into the Ethical and Professional Standards Command, the unit that investigates wrongdoing by police, while he himself was being investigated, multiple police sources have told the NT Independent, with one stating the situation was “bizarre”.
