The father of a 14-year-old boy who had his skull fractured and was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after an unprovoked and “sickening attack” at Casuarina shopping centre over the weekend, says the government needs to take immediate action to keep the public safe from young offenders.
Barkly regional council member Kris Civitarese has been named as the CLP candidate for Daly in the upcoming by-election.
The murder trial of NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe has been delayed after prosecutors were successful in their High Court action to delay the case at the last minute this morning.
Territory businesses that have been impacted by recent COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns can access money through a new $12.5 million assistance package announced by the Federal and Territory governments.
UPDATED: Chief Minister Michael Gunner has insulted frontline pandemic workers and should “apologise immediately” for once again politicising the global COVID-19 pandemic to win votes, says the union representing the Territory’s police officers.
The by-election in the electorate of Daly to replace CLP MLA Ian Sloan will be held on September 11, but confusion remains over how the date was selected, which appears to have caught the CLP by surprise.
WATCH THE VIDEO: A man in Alice Springs doused himself in petrol after crashing a car into the Todd Tavern this morning in a disturbing scene captured on video that the police withheld from the public.
The lockdown for the Greater Darwin region will be lifted at noon, but will remain in place in Katherine for the next 24 hours, the government has said.
A second straight day of no new COVID cases has health officials optimistic the Greater Darwin and Katherine lockdown could end on time Thursday, Chief Minister Michael Gunner has said, even while authorities struggle to determine how the index case contracted the virus.
A 19-year-old man who allegedly went on a drunken vehicle rampage yesterday morning in Alice Springs, that sent a woman to hospital and damaged six cars, is facing a string of charges while three teens have been charged for break and enters across the community, in what a local politician has called the latest “outrageous crimes” plaguing the town.
Despite Territory politicians being listed by the Chief Health Officer as “essential workers” during a lockdown, parliamentary sittings have been cancelled this week with no make-up dates currently planned.
A 15-year-old has been charged with attempted rape and other sexual offences involving a series of Katherine break-ins spanning the last two years, which the NT Police executive and media team appear not to have publicly reported when the first incident occurred in November 2019.
