The NT Government has rushed extraordinary amendments through Parliament Thursday night to retrospectively “validate” the Chief Health Officer’s vaccine mandate directions, raising suspicions the government had not properly enacted the orders the first time, which one legal expert said has “demolished the rule of law in the NT” and would most likely draw the attention of the Federal Government.
A proposed bill that would have seen mandatory sentences for people found guilty of assaulting frontline workers has been killed by the Fyles Government in Parliament, sparking calls on the government from the union representing police to reveal the findings of their working group into assaults on workers.
Darwin City Council has announced one of the largest rate increases over the past decade, with a 4.5 per cent hike this year following a zero-rate increase in 2020 due to COVID-19 and a more modest 2.5 per cent hike last year.
United Australia Party Senate candidate Raj Samson Rajwin has been using at least one fake Facebook profile to attack political rivals and named one apparently non-existent person as the Australian “president” of his “International Society of Human Development and Equality” organisation – a private company he runs as the sole director while claiming it is a charity.
NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has issued a remarkable public statement, informing Territorians he is still the Commissioner of Police and the CEO of Fire and Emergency Services.
The development of the proposed Middle Arm industrial project into a “globally competitive and sustainable precinct” is moving ahead, the government said, despite warnings from the Environment Centre NT that the project may have “significant” public health impacts.
Current Labor Member for Solomon Luke Gosling did not disclose thousands of dollars worth of hospitality he received from the Darwin Turf Club following the Gunner government’s controversial $12 million grandstand grant in 2019, including VIP tickets to the Darwin Cup Carnival for him and his brother, the NT Independent can reveal.
The NT’s head public servant Jodie Ryan has resigned from her position effective Monday, as the fallout from former chief minister Michael Gunner’s shock resignation last week continues.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has named Nicole Manison as her deputy, keeping her in the role she has held since Michael Gunner’s Labor government was first elected in 2016, in a move seen as mending dividing factions in the party.
The Litchfield Council will not say if it was the chief executive officer or a councillor who wrote a notice without motion for its January meeting overturning the Girraween Rd speed limit increase, but one resident who filed a freedom of information application on the matter, has said Mayor Doug Barden told him the former CEO wrote it, and gave it to councilor to propose as her own.
A man who escaped from the Alice Springs watch house last week has been apprehended, the NT Police media unit says, but information about the escape was not publicly distributed by police in a media statement when it occurred.
A new tourism strategy released by the NT Government will focus on developing the Greater Darwin region over the next decade by highlighting what assets are attracting visitors and what needs to be done to expand them.
