A female police officer was sent to hospital after an altercation with five females in Yarrawonga yesterday afternoon, in an incident that saw the “aggressive” females allegedly surrounding the officers at one point, with pepper spray deployed and damage to a police vehicle, the NT Police said.
The CLP Finocchiaro Government has shut down a censure motion brought against it by an independent Indigenous MLA in Parliament, who said the government was “contributing to increasingly unsafe communities across every part of the Northern Territory” with its unilateral policies.
A little-known ‘networking’ company connected to Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro’s husband Sam Burke has not made its annual financial reports public since 2021 while its auditor resigned two years ago, the NT Independent can reveal, raising more questions about how much the company received from taxpayers through the Waterfront Corporation to hold a conference this year and the value of ongoing fees paid to it with taxpayer money.
A Sydney man has been charged in relation to an alleged $3.5 million rort of an NT Government department through a corporate email fraud that fooled NT public servants, after he allegedly emailed them claiming to be from an established construction company but asking to change that company’s bank account details for the next payment.
NT Police are searching for a man wearing “open-toe fluffy slippers” and no pants who allegedly performed an indecent act while chasing a woman on a run in Alice Springs on Monday afternoon.
The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education’s chief executive officer Joe Martin-Jard will leave the job roughly 14 months after he started, while his deputy has been directly appointed to take over from him in a “succession plan”, despite the Office of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption previously warning the organisation against direct appointments of staff without a selection process.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has used the Saturday night stabbing of a 15-year-old at the Darwin showgrounds to promote changes to the Youth Justice Act it will introduce this week on urgency, without any evidence the measures will reduce crime and while refusing to work with Indigenous groups and leaders to find solutions to the Territory’s crime problem.
Tamboran Resource’s long-serving CEO and managing director Joel Riddle has suddenly “stepped down” from his roles, the company said in a surprise announcement on Monday, with the chair of the board appointed interim CEO amid reported financial problems and other challenges facing the company.
UPDATED: A 15-year-old is in police custody and has been charged after allegedly stabbing another teen at the Royal Darwin Show on Saturday night in front of dozens of show-goers, with the victim rushed to hospital in a “serious condition”, NT Police said.
The NT Centre for Disease Control has issued a measles alert following the hospitalisation of a man in north Queensland who visited numerous tourist attractions in the NT earlier this month.
A 23-year-old man has died in a head-on collision involving a Honda CRV and a road train on Sunday afternoon, 14 km north of Katherine on the Stuart Highway, NT Police said.
NT Police have confirmed they did not undertake full searches of several potential disposal sites of Peter Falconio’s remains mapped out for them by a world-leading expert in “no-body” homicide cases in 2007, and have yet to action the entire scope of the search report.
