Jabiru has been powered by solar energy for the first time, the government says, following construction of the Jabiru Hybrid Renewable Power Station that started operating this month – part of a massive government-funded rejuvenation master plan of the township.
Constable Zachary Rolfe’s legal team said the officer had been taught “edged weapon equals gun” when arguing he was justified in shooting Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker three times.
The Gunner Government has billed Territory taxpayers $77 million over the past 18 months to outsource general government responsibilities and internal decision-making to private consultancy firms, an NT Independent analysis has revealed.
Chaotic and distressing footage has been played to a court showing police officer Zachary Rolfe shooting Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker in a “double-tap” while he was pinned underneath another cop.
The Opposition CLP is proposing a CCTV monitoring trial program for Alice Springs that is currently in use in Ipswich, where criminal incidents are flagged and police alerted to potential crimes in real time.
The Federal Government has announced it will contribute $10 million towards a lodging facility in Marrara for transients sleeping rough, as part of a $40 million deal that the NT Government has inexplicably kept under wraps.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s media team has deleted a Facebook post that used a six-year-old photo of a truck convoy taking hay to drought ravaged graziers in Queensland, that seemed to suggest they were trucks heading to the Territory to replenish supermarket shelves.
Former Solomon Islands police commissioner Matthew Varley has been named as the NT’s new Corrections Commissioner.
The Chief Minister’s Office has blocked a Freedom of Information application into its handling of the ‘cocaine sex scandal’, which sought documents relating to when the Chief Minister first became aware of an email that detailed explicit messages and allegations about a senior staffer, an MLA and a sex worker.
Police Minister Nicole Manison needs to resign or be sacked for her “dismissive” and “patronising” attitude towards the ongoing crime crisis in Alice Springs, an independent MLA says.
A former Darwin Turf Club board member who supported awarding $12 million of taxpayer funds for the grandstand to former chair Brett Dixon’s company despite claiming it didn’t “pass the pub test” and would result in a corruption investigation, has been issued an apology by the ICAC after it was revealed she was secretly recorded by an investigator.
Senator Sam McMahon said she did not feel safe at the Country Liberal Party’s central council meetings, which led to her decision to quit the party last week, plunging it into an existential crisis.
