A 4WD owned by a member of the public allegedly rammed into the side of a stolen ute with children inside, including a 16-year-old driver, in an attempt to stop it after a two-hour dangerous driving rampage that included a campdraft camp in Tennant Creek where it almost ran over three small children, sources have told the NT Independent, while NT Police has provided an account of how the stolen ute was stopped that does not match the photographs of the damaged vehicles.
EDITORIAL: There is no way to overstate the damage the Justice Blow report has had on the already fragile Northern Territory Police Force, its members and the trust every Territorian should have in its police service. It shows an organisation paralysed in the face of its challenges, overcome with infighting and accusations, its senior and most experienced officers’ morale shattered and the culture of a once-proud police service left to rot from the inside out.
Opposition Leader Selena Uibo was forced on Friday to admit to abusing the taxpayer-funded government white car service for personal use following an FOI application filed by the ABC, stating she will now pay back the money, which the NT Independent understands was used for transport to dinners in Darwin, a birthday celebration earlier this year and other personal events.
The Justice Alan Blow inquiry into senior police appointments under former police commissioner Michael Murphy has found the promotion and appointment processes “have many shortcomings” that need to be addressed immediately, while also exposing a war within the senior ranks of the NT Police over unresolved allegations of favouritism, bias and “undeclared or unmanaged conflicts of interest” that is continuing to affect the police’s culture and morale.
Facebook posts showing Public Employment Minister Jo Hersey attending union protest rallies against the previous Labor government’s public service pay freeze have contradicted her claims the union failed to fight against the 2022 pay freeze, but the Minister is now criticising unions for donating to Labor’s 2024 election campaign, which all comes amid a bitter battle over a new contract for public servants.
Lands and Planning Minister Josh Burgoyne has flatly rejected Larrakia people’s concerns that a proposed 11-storey hotel in the parking lot of the Darwin Convention Centre at the Waterfront precinct will impact an adjacent registered sacred site, with his comments later criticised by Larrakia owners as ill-informed and unqualified.
A 60-year-old man has been arrested for alleged historical child sexual offences that occurred in Fannie Bay between 2002 and 2007, NT Police said.
CDC bus drivers across the Territory have started wearing campaign-branded hi-visibility vests as part of the Transport Workers’ Union’s escalating work action against the bus operator’s contract offer, which they say falls below industry standards.
Voluntary assisted dying legislation should be adopted in the Northern Territory, a new report by the government’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee has found, but it comes with 86 recommendations including instructions on how to draft the legislation, while the CLP Government has given no indication of when it will be introduced to Parliament.
Tamboran Resources announced that its Beetaloo Joint Venture (BJV) has reached a Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Shenandoah South pilot project and that it has acquired Falcon Oil and Gas, while the NT Government announced that taxpayers will underwrite $75 million of a $180 million loan for a new compression facility to bring Beetaloo gas to market.
The Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics under former senior bureaucrat Andrew Kirkman spent $2 million on a deeply flawed and painfully slow internal investigation into the rorting of millions of taxpayer dollars through the Indigenous Employment Provisional Sum scheme by dozens of Territory contractors, that led to the recovery of only $900,000, new internal government documents show.
The death of woman at Casuarina is being investigated after a postmortem examination identified unexplained internal injuries, NT Police said.
