Tony Innes has spent the past two years fighting bureaucratic red tape and the government’s “double standards” to keep an iconic rodeo afloat, while government-owned facilities are not being held to the same level of compliance as private businesses, he says.
Darwin Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis has slammed a proposal by the NT Police to restrict the consumption of alcohol at East Point, calling it “unfair” to the vast majority of people who “behave themselves”.
VIDEO: A fly-through of the Casuarina $25 million “resort-style” pool has been released painting a picture of a tropical oasis complete with an outdoor gym, cafe, evening event space, “clubroom” and creche.
The Gunner Government will reportedly trial a program that will see international students fly to the Northern Territory to be quarantined at the Howard Springs facility before attending class at Charles Darwin University.
Vanuatuans would be among those from overseas who would not have to quarantine to come to the NT under a proposal by Chief Minister Michael Gunner although he conceded he had no power to make it happen.
The Alice Springs region will receive $3.5 million in Federal Government tourism funding to be spent on marketing and festivals to try and help the region deal with the massive decline in international visitors caused by COVID-19 restrictions.
Lawyers representing NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe, charged with the murder of Kumanjayi Walker in Yeundemu late last year, have taken aim at key evidence revealed by body worn camera footage saying it “distorts reality”.
In case you missed it, we’ve wrapped up the biggest stories we reported for you this week: A teenager escapes jail for a machete attack on a girl; the Chief Minister admits the real reason for the Parrtjima festival’s cancellation; the NT’s suicide rates continue to be the highest in Australia; and the hit-and-run driver who turned himself into police. These and more in just two minutes of reading.
A Darwin man has been sentenced to six months imprisonment after being found in possession of 240 child abuse images and videos involving children as young as six.
A man who is alleged to have almost killed a five-year-old boy after allegedly striking him with his car on Vanderlin Drive, sending him flying into the air, has turned himself in to police.
A man who has “spiralled into a cycle of violent behaviours, offending and imprisonment” has been sentenced to prison for stomping on his wife’s head multiple times in a “callous and brutal fashion”.
A Darwin man is facing court after three boxes of cannabis sent in the mail to the Winnellie Post Office were allegedly found in his car along with plastic bottles containing an unidentified liquid and “other suspicious items”.
