The Fyles Government plan to help reduce crime in Alice Springs, including housing police and Territory Families, Housing and Communities staff in the one building, has been described as “ignorant” and showing a “complete lack of responsibility,” by independent MLA for Araluen Robyn Lambley, and comes after it was revealed in Budget Estimates the government has no single documented plan to fight crime in the town.
NT cattle stations owner Rallen Australia said it obtained a temporary halt on road works by fracking company Tamboran Resources Limited on its land, until its stay application can be heard by the NT Supreme Court heard on July 15, but the miner later said the interim stop work had been lifted and misconceived as the company did have an immediate intention to undertake works on that track.
The latest visitor data released by Tourism Research Australia shows that the tourism sector in the Northern Territory has recovered somewhat from the COVID-19 restrictions, although it is still more a third down on March 2020 before the borders closed, and with a return to 2018-2019 levels not predicted until 2023-24.
The establishment of First Nation Governments that would allow individual Indigenous groups to be self-governing and law making as ‘domestic dependent nations’, as well as a Treaty and Truth Commission, and an Aboriginal Ombudsman, are key recommendations made in the Northern Territory Treaty Commission final report released today.
NT Police are calling for witnesses and video and photos of a fight in a carpark after a Women’s Premier League match at Marrara on Sunday evening,
The Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler has given the TIO Stadium grandstand an exemption, with no end date, from complying with the building code, but she has not said whether the government has given up trying to get proper safety certification for the building, and fix unresolved critical safety issues, including some that NT firefighters have said expose the public to risk.
The tender for the estimated $145 million worth of work for the completion of the Civic and State Square redevelopment has closed, with an estimated $50 million of that to be spent on a new art gallery.
Territorians will have to shell out an additional 2.7 per cent on their electricity bills, and on water and sewage, from Friday, the government has announced.
A man was stabbed in Palmerston on Monday night and is in a serious but stable condition, Northern Territory Police have said
Private security guards will be trialed on the streets of Darwin’s northern suburbs and in Palmerston to help with “anti-social behaviour”, while police and Territory Families, Housing and Communities teams will soon be housed together across the Territory, under changes announced by Chief Minister Natasha Fyles on Tuesday.
NT Police allege four kids aged eight to 12-years of age broke into, and significantly damaged an Alice Springs childcare centre on Friday, and are investigating if the were involved in break-ins of two primary schools.
All officers rostered to work the night shift at Casuarina Police station called in sick last Saturday because of dissatisfaction with issues in the NT Police broadly, including Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker’s statement in response to the announcement of a Territory-wide vote of confidence in him in the coming weeks, sources have told the NT Independent.
