The first of three NASA rockets was launched 300km into space from the Arnhem Space Centre just before midnight on Sunday night, carrying the X-ray quantum calorimeter, cooled to a freezing one-twentieth of a degree above absolute zero, to observe the Alpha Centauri A and B constellations to create new data on the structure and evolution of the cosmos.
Planning Minister Eva Lawler has announced the need to review all government buildings in “control areas” for non compliance with the Building Act 1993, while saying she has extended TIO Stadium’s exemption from complying with the act, with the first exemption having sparked an Office of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption investigation into her actions.
There were 42 officers leave the NT Police from late February to late May, a slight reduction in the rate from the three months before that, but the attrition rate hit 10 per cent for the last 12 months, with 171 officers having left, which compares to the about 60 who left the force each year several years ago, according to NT Police Association figures.
The Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has issued an extraordinary media statement saying he does not know why nine NT Police Association regions have asked for a vote of confidence in him, but wants to understand the “primary drivers”, while once again not mentioning by name Constable Zach Rolfe and his Supreme Court murder trial acquittal for the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker.
Student paramedics and ambulance volunteers have been used in St John ambulances with urgent patients, including a person who had hung themself, and those who were suffering seizures or needing resuscitation, without, or with delayed paramedic and or intensive care paramedic back-up, the United Workers Union has said.
EXCLUSIVE: A recruitment agency embroiled in a NSW parliamentary investigation into a lucrative political appointment, is the same firm that controversially shortlisted Jamie Chalker for the NT police commissioner position amid allegations of corruption, the NT Independent can reveal.
The Opposition CLP nominated disgraced former speaker Kezia Purick to resume the role of Speaker in Parliament today, two years to the day after she was forced to resign for being found to have engaged in corrupt conduct by the ICAC while in the role between 2018 and 2020.
NT Police have arrested a 30-year-old man they allege was involved in the distribution of counterfeit money throughout Darwin who had been evading them since June 16.
An allegedly intoxicated man who did a burn out and allegedly drove directly at Alice Springs police before fleeing them last weekend has been arrested and his vehicle seized after police used a drone to follow the man home.
The ICAC did not provide procedural fairness to former Darwin Turf Club board member Damien Moriarty before publishing adverse findings that he breached the public trust over his role in the $12 million taxpayer-funded Darwin Turf Club grandstand, a Supreme Court judge has ruled, and that the ICAC acted outside of his jurisdiction in making the findings.
NT Police Association president Paul McCue has sent a message to members saying it was clear they want a vote of confidence in Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker, and that the vote would happen in the “coming weeks”, but also took the opportunity to distance himself and the union executive from any involvement in the motions put from sub-branches for the confidence vote, which he is referring to as a “survey”.
Ongoing “disturbances” in Wadeye will only be resolved if family groups, elders, traditional owners and government agencies come together to discuss and implement solutions to the current feuds plaguing the community, the NT Police have said, adding they had 17 arrest targets under investigation for riotous behaviour.
