Darwin mayoral candidate Sam Weston is standing behind an unproven sexual assault allegation he made against a former RSL committee member, despite the police having found no victim or evidence of wrongdoing and closing the case last year, while the subject of the allegation is out of pocket thousands of dollars in legal fees.
UPDATED: A 62-year-old Palmerston man is dead following a police raid on his Rosebery home on Friday morning as part of a joint child abuse taskforce investigation, the NT Police said, with the man reportedly sustaining self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest.
Three mayoral candidates say they would like to see the 21-storey hybrid civic centre-private office tower currently being built in partnership with developer DCOH stopped if elected, and also supported a review or an investigation of the decision-making process for the project, while none of the current councillors would provide their thoughts about the project on the record.
The Darwin Entertainment Centre is now officially called the AANT Centre after a 10-year partnership agreement with the Automobile Association of the Northern Territory, but AANT has declined to disclose how much it paid for the naming rights.
Anindilyakwa Land Council chair Cherelle Wurrawilya will not say why chief executive officer Matthew Bonson suddenly left the role less than three months after being appointed to run the troubled organisation, which was raided by the National Anti-Crime Commission last year.
Costings for two different versions of the new Darwin Council civic centre were given to council but never made public in the months before it put out an expression of interest for the building, that led to a partnership with developer DCOH to build the controversial 21-storey hybrid civic centre-private office tower.
A Facebook page purporting to have revealed independent candidates for Darwin council as “paedophile puppets” controlled by Territory Labor, has been referred to the NT Electoral Commission for investigation after breaching the Local Government Act and spreading misinformation.
A vital Territory aquifer is drying at an accelerating rate and taking longer to recover from Dry seasons, a new study by Griffith University has found, raising concerns about the impact fracking operations in the Beetaloo Basin will have on the water source and additional extraction.
Territorians have a right to know how $25 million of taxpayer dollars are being spent at the Darwin Waterfront Corporation every year, an independent MLA says, following a compromised parliamentary hearing that did not fully investigate unadvertised jobs, poor governance practices and an unusual overlap of board and executive roles, but the Finocchiaro CLP Government have refused to explain how it intends to deal with the matter now, while ruling out a proper investigation.
The cost of Darwin’s long-delayed ship lift has surged to at least $820 million, a parliamentary committee has found, which will see taxpayers cover the costs for Paspaley Pearls Group to operate, as per an agreement signed in 2021.
Lawyers who indicate they represent Darwin Council, Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis, and council staff have threatened to sue Cyclone Tracy survivor Antony Bullock for defamation if he publishes a book about his investigation into the selection of a sculpture commemorating the cyclone’s 50th anniversary.
NT WorkSafe has appointed Grant Hastie as its new executive director, effective August 25, following a national recruitment process.
