EXCLUSIVE: The Northern Territory’s second-most senior public servant Andy Cowan had a trip to Disney World paid for by a private company seeking government funds to build an interpretive centre at Jabiru which appears to not have been disclosed, the NT Independent can reveal.
The Northern Territory has ranked last on six of eight measures of the CommSec’s State of the States economic report – including dead last on construction work that was down 30.7 per cent annually.
NT Police will be closing the Darwin watch house and moving other resources around in an effort to prioritise protecting the borders as AFP personnel pull out of the Northern Territory on Friday, according to an internal police memo obtained by the NT Independent.
UPDATED: The NT Police media team have reported that police have apprehended a 25-year-old man who escaped custody in Alice Springs on Friday evening, finding him in a car on the street where he allegedly committed the crime on Monday afternoon.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner says crime is not a big election issue for Territorians and that he’s more focused on “saving lives and jobs” from coronavirus to campaign in the lead up to the August 22 election.
A new analysis of NT Public Service executive contracts shows the Northern Territory has more “senior executive services” staff than Tasmania and the ACT combined, despite a quarter of the population.
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Sydney-based political activist group, GetUp, has been conducting voter enrolment drives in remote communities across the Northern Territory, a month out from the NT election.
The former operator of the giant inflatable in the Darwin Waterfront lagoon, and one of its directors Jarrod Berrington, are facing charges in the Federal Circuit Court for allegedly underpaying wages and allowances the Fair Work Ombudsman has said.
Territory Alliance Drysdale candidate Aiden Pigram has resigned following old Facebook posts resurfacing in which he made controversial remarks comparing Islam to Hitler and later appearing to request contact details for the local KKK branch.
Independent Member for Stuart Scott McConnell has called for the Administrator’s residence to be converted into an RSL and the position made “honorary”, following revelations of massive expenses on travel and electricity billed to taxpayers.
Two men have been forced into mandatory supervised quarantine in Howard Springs and will front court after police said they flew into, and had been mingling with, the Nhulunbuy community after they lied about not having been in Sydney in the previous two weeks.
