NT Police commissioner Jamie Chalker says police could be arresting some young offenders in Alice Springs “two to three times” a day but can’t say for sure because retrieving stats of arrests is “not straight forward” and would mean taking police off the streets to provide accurate data.
Chief Minister and Treasurer Michael Gunner told a heated Estimates Committee on Monday his government is pinning its economic hopes on a rebound in GST payments, increased royalties and potential future major projects to replenish its coffers over the coming years, despite little indication that will happen.
Here’s a two-minute rundown of this week’s top stories: From a video capturing escalating youth crime conditions in Alice Springs; to the Opposition lambasting Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s “meaningless” youth crime data; to a new entity in Jabiru that shares directors with an Aboriginal corporation currently under probe; and to an international journalist and a Darwin lawyer castigating Mr Gunner’s ban on the NT Independent.
After having their dreams of building a new club on the Esplanade dashed, the Darwin RSL says it is now seeking a developer to rebuild at its old Cavanagh Street site that was razed by fire in 2018.
Pressure continues to mount on Chief Minister Michael Gunner to lift his ban on the NT Independent, after a member of the Darwin legal community joined a growing group of journalism and legal experts across the country calling for the ban to be rescinded, while suggesting the government has breached its own code of conduct.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has been accused of releasing “meaningless” youth crime data ahead of a visit to Alice Springs this week, which is being called into question by the Opposition after it was reported without scrutiny in an online newspaper.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s ongoing ban of the NT Independent undermines basic democratic values and is contributing to the erosion of integrity in government, says journalist Peter Greste, who was jailed in Egypt for more than a year while on assignment for Al-Jazeera in 2013.
A Darwin alderman has called for a “classy” light railway system between Darwin and Palmerston to help reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions after a recent council study found vehicles were responsible for 60 per cent of the city’s annual two million tonnes of carbon emissions.
The much-hyped Territory Economic Reconstruction Commission’s plan for saving the Northern Territory’s economy post-coronavirus has come down to plans already in place: further developing natural gas reserves and expanding the mining sector, while also simultaneously moving to achieve a “decarbonisation plan” to reach net zero emissions by 2050, with a focus on renewable energy.
Here’s a two-minute rundown of this week’s top stories in the Territory: From NT Police’s leaked internal memo telling officers to lie; to authorities mum on a stabbing incident; to Territorians being billed for Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s personal Sydney flight fees and limo costs; to Zachary Rolfe’s lawyer appealing to move his murder trial to Darwin.
Labor Member for Karama Ngaree Ah Kit has been accused of being ‘out of touch’ after holding an invite-only community crime forum in her electorate office attended by eight hand-selected people who may or may not have been victims of crime.
The RSL’s controversial plan to build a club on the Esplanade appears to finally be dead, after Darwin City Council passed a motion at its meeting last night to turn the carpark at the centre of the proposal into green space.
