Taxpayers should be reimbursed the $12 million they were bilked for the controversial Darwin Turf Club grandstand by the Chief Minister, the Opposition says, and not the club, that has claimed paying back the money would “cripple the racing industry”.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has refused to stand down, issuing an extraordinary written public statement amid growing calls for his resignation, stating that “we will continue to work on relationships with all Territorians” and defending the decision to charge Zach Rolfe with murder.
The father of Constable Zach Rolfe said Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker acted corruptly by allegedly hiding a police report into the death of Kumanjayi Walker from the court in the committal hearing for the police officer’s murder charge, and said the NT’s top cop needed to resign or be sacked.
UPDATED: NT Police Association president Paul McCue said “political interference was alive” when Constable Zach Rolfe was charged for murder in 2019, implicating senior NT Labor politicians for influencing the decision to lay charges.
Construction company Kalidonis NT and its sole director Theofilos Kalidonis are facing charges over the death of a worker in Maningrida in March 2020, including industrial manslaughter, with potential fines of about $11 million and five years in prison, NT Work Safe has said.
Northern Territory corrections officers will vote on whether to strike, or take other action including not transporting prisoners to court, during negotiations over their enterprise bargaining agreement, after being given approval by the Fair Work Commission to hold a ballot to take protected industrial action.
The NT Police executive have notified the union representing police that it intends to issue new disciplinary notices on Constable Zach Rolfe, who was on Friday cleared of murder by a Supreme Court jury, which would officially continue his suspension from service, the NT Independent understands.
The political fallout of the decision to charge NT Police constable Zach Rolfe for murder is expected to play out in the coming days, with the Opposition calling for an independent inquiry into the “politicisation” of the shooting, and Mr Rolfe’s lawyer setting the tone after the not guilty verdict, telling reporters “consequences will flow”.
Prisoners have set the maximum security area of Alice Springs prison on fire, while police are checking the identification of anyone entering its headquarters, with extra internal security measures as well, following the not guilty verdict in the Constable Zach Rolfe murder trial Friday afternoon, sources have told the NT Independent.
Around 70 cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease have recently been recorded from several childcare centres in the Top End region, and health authorities are advising parents to take precautions to protect their children from getting infected from the virus.
NT Police Constable Zach Rolfe has been found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of Yuendumu teen Kumanjayi Walker.
Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler must immediately stand down while the NT’s anti-corruption commissioner investigates her involvement in the TIO Stadium fiasco, the Opposition CLP says.
