NT Senator Sam McMahon had her media adviser send out a plug for her veterinary business in a warning about a non-COVID-19 vaccinated Territory dog becoming the first canine in Australia to test positive for the virus, as she potentially looks to her future getting back on the tools after the coming federal election.
The NT Government said it will spend a modest $12.8 million to lure overseas holiday makers and workers to the Northern Territory, as the country’s borders reopen next Monday to double-vaccinated tourists for the first time in almost two years.
WATCH THE VIDEO: The president of Territory Labor’s youth wing has resigned from his job in Federal MP Luke Gosling’s office after a social media video surfaced showing him snorting a white substance that appears to be cocaine, the NT Independent can reveal, raising further questions about an alleged drug culture inside the Territory Labor Party.
UPDATED: The Gunner Government will spend up to $130 million for the supply and delivery of Rapid Antigen Tests over the next 12 months, according to a public tender released on Monday, which could see it provided with 100 million RAT kits.
The Community and Public Sector Union says hundreds of Northern Territory public servants are owed unpaid legal entitlements totalling millions of dollars, with cases dating back to 2003, and called on the Chief Minister to intervene and force an audit of all money owed across departments.
EXCLUSIVE: A Territory Labor-aligned marketing company that helped run Michael Gunner’s 2020 election campaign was awarded $60,000 of public money in the lead up to the election through a COVID-19 stimulus program it was originally rejected for, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show.
The NT Government has requested more time to respond to a lawsuit against its vaccine mandate filed in the Supreme Court by a local business group, revealing the delay is due to “no central briefing paper provided to the [Chief Health Officer] for the purpose of considering the making of Directions No. 55”.
Three people have been charged and 25 others were issued infringement notices for violations during an alleged “unlawful” COVID-19 protest in Darwin City on Saturday, according to NT Police, while protest organisers say their permit was rejected at the last minute.
The Opposition CLP will put forward legislation next week that would compel the Chief Health Officer to report to the public about the ongoing state of the public health emergency on a regular basis, in a bid for greater transparency in decision-making amid rolling extensions of government emergency powers.
UPDATED: Taminmin College was plunged into a lockdown Thursday morning, after an agitated special needs student became involved in an incident with staff and was later wandering around the school grounds.
A $7.2 million Materials Recovery Facility will soon be built in Katherine to sort, process, and re-manufacture materials such as mixed plastic, paper, tyres and glass, as part of the Federal Government’s $1 billion program to overhaul Australia’s waste and recycling industries.
A man driving a small hatchback was swept off a flooded crossing in the Darwin rural area Tuesday night with rescuers forced to wade into the water to rescue the man who was unable to swim, NT Police said.
