There are about 1000 people from COVID-19 hotspots in self quarantine compared to only 143 in supervised quarantine in the Territory, because the first group arrived in the NT before July 17, taking advantage of the lag between hotspots being declared and the stricter requirements being enforced.
Michael Gunner’s Economic Reconstruction Commission has released its 13-page interim report, which recommended the NT Government study the potential for an energy corridor between Darwin and Alice Springs, as well as other ideas dependent on federal funding.
Police say they are monitoring the travel time taken by people from Australian COVID-19 hotspots to get from a Territory border to mandatory quarantine facilities, as they released the number of people who have come to the NT since Friday after mandatory quarantine was dropped for those arriving from non-hotspots.
A 19-year-old Tennant Creek man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to abduct a child while she slept in her bed over the weekend.
A meth addicted mother-of-two used Lego boxes to smuggle more than $35,000 worth of the drug into Palmerston, using a false identity and forging documents in order to obtain shipments, the NT Supreme Court has heard.
In case you’ve been hiding under your bed because of the borders opening, here is some NT news worth catching and all in just a two minute read: borders open and fines for breaking mandatory quarantine increase to $5,000; majority of Gunner Government’s ‘fast track’ projects actually ‘slow tracked’; the NT’s second most powerful public servant’s taxpayer funded trips to the US and in Hawaii revealed; and Tennant Creek’s only grocery store destroyed by fire.
A man from a state police would not reveal, who breached his mandatory quarantine by leaving his hotel room telling authorities he “didn’t want to stay in four walls”, has been the first to be given the increased fine of $5,056, NT police said.
Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne has responded to the abuse of office charge leveled at her by the NT Police, calling it a “misconceived charge” in a media statement from her lawyer.
Anyone breaching mandatory quarantine in the NT should be prepared to pay an expanded infringement penalty of more than five times the previous amount as the Territory borders reopen today, the Gunner Government announced Friday morning.
The Gunner Government has awarded a $55 million contract to build the new Darwin youth detention centre to Halikos Group – the company that objected to the facility being built in its original location because it infringed on free land they were given by the government.
Northern Land Council chief executive officer Marion Scrymgour has said traditional owners do not want the Territory Government to take over Kakadu National Park from the Federal Government and said there had been a “vacuum of silence” from Parks Australia over claims of mismanagement.
NT Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne has been charged with abuse of office.
