NT Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley has requested Territory Families youth workers to fill in at Holtze prison when prison officers go on a 24-hour stop-work on Monday, a departmental document shows, and follows on from Estimates hearings in late June where the Corrections Minister refused to disclose staff shortages in the department.
Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Michael Riches has binned the largest and most critical report into corruption in the Northern Territory the office has ever completed, permanently removing the Darwin Turf Club grandstand report from public view.
UPDATED: NT Police say they are now treating the deaths of two adults and a baby who were found dead at an outstation north of Alice Springs on Sunday as a “domestic violence incident” after finding a gun at the scene.
Darwin’s main fire station at Stuart Park is without a fire truck this morning, putting the Darwin CBD at “huge risk” because of an inability to fight fires in apartments and large buildings, the United Workers Union have said.
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Darwin Mayor Kon Vatskalis and two city employees charged ratepayers more than $8,000 to fly to Bali last month for a five-day trip at a five-star resort as part of a sister cities deal with Denpasar that Mr Vatskalis claimed would see 1000 “skilled workers” brought to Darwin to fill job vacancies.
Aboriginal rangers have erected new signs at Dundee Beach to educate the public about out fishing restrictions and access in the Finniss River coastal area, after a Million Dollar Fish catch in the area was judged to be illegal earlier this year because it was caught in a no-fishing zone.
The NT Police top brass has directed a staffer to investigate the petty vandalism of a small number of federal election candidate corflutes – which they describe as “criminal damage” – that were repurposed with the slogan “Integrity matters, sack Chalker now”.
UPDATED: A 17-year-old learner driver was arrested last night after allegedly striking a female pedestrian on the Stuart Highway at Berrimah and fleeing the scene leaving her in a critical condition, NT Police said, alleging the male had consumed alcohol and was driving without a licenced passenger.
The 30-year-old inmate of Holtz prison who left the jail while its security systems were down last week has been apprehended by police, following tip-offs from the public about his location.
Informa Connect Australia will be hosting this year’s Northern Territory Resources Week bringing together three of Northern Australia’s leading industry events on August 24 and 25 at the Darwin Convention Centre.
A 47-year-old man was killed and another man was taken to hospital near Katherine overnight after an ATV rollover on a property in Cossack, NT Police said.
