New HR and well-being staff positions have been advertised by the NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services the same day the NT Independent revealed that an unreleased internal review showed that the tri-service had no defined strategy to deal with mental health, following the suicides of five serving or former police officers in four months.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has told Estimates he has a lot of support within the NT Police force despite nine police union branches calling for a vote of no confidence in him, and once again in a confusing and cryptic public performance, said there were “many mistruths”, “misguided beliefs” and “disgusting commentary” about him in the media, that he could not discuss because of unnamed “processes” being undertaken.
Start the fun this dry season at Aquascene in the heart of Darwin, where hundreds of fish come to shore at high tide to be fed by hand!
Nine people allegedly connected to a drug syndicate operating out of Tennant Creek were arrested and charged on Wednesday, NT Police said, as part of an operation to disrupt the supply of commercial cannabis in the Barkly region.
Department of Infrastructure chief executive Andrew Kirkman told Estimates hearings he has no idea why the ICAC is conducting a review of policies and procedures at the Katherine DIPL office, and initially claimed no knowledge of a report his department ordered into corruption allegations at the office in 2019.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles is being “undemocratic” by continuing her predecessor Michael Gunner’s ban of the NT Independent, the national journalism union has said.
Traditional Owners and artists are calling on the Darwin Festival to dump gas giant Santos as a sponsor as part of a larger protest against its Barossa offshore gas project and its Beetaloo Sub-basin development.
The NT’s two-year public health emergency declaration will lift from midnight tonight, meaning Territorians will be able to work without having a COVID-19 vaccination for the first time since last year.
Territorians love the financial position of the Northern Territory, Treasurer Eva Lawler told Budget Estimates hearings on Wednesday, and are “stopping me in the street” because everyone is “optimistic” about the government’s books.
A Royal Australian Navy patrol boat and the NT Police joined together to rescue three fishos from their overturned boat near Charles Point after those on board set off an emergency beacon.
Details of a teenage boy who spent six hours in surgery for injuries sustained after the motorbike he was on was hit by another motorbike on the Finke Desert racetrack, was not made public by the NT Police, despite the media unit issuing a statement about a similar crash earlier in the day, his family has said.
The NT’s anti-corruption watchdog was forced to end an investigation into “serious” allegations that Labor Government ministers were misled by an unnamed individual, after ICAC Michael Riches was unable to access Cabinet documents, the commissioner disclosed during Estimates hearings on Tuesday.
