Acting ICAC Greg Shanahan told Estimates hearings on Tuesday that he has recused himself from involvement in an undisclosed number of matters due to conflicts of interest, but refused to publicly disclose his conflicts register, stating only that some of his disclosures related to people he “worked directly with for a long period”.
St John Ambulance NT last week told paramedics it was ceasing two emergency procedures, roughly a year after a damning independent review into its medical treatments called for the procedures to be ended until a medical director was employed, with the report also finding multiple failures and poor decisions resulted in harm to patients and significant risk to staff.
The delayed reopening of the Dundee boat ramp has taken place following a more than $12 million upgrade, a boat ramp the former Labor Minister Joel Bowden felt the need to visit during the caretaker period last year before he announced the doubling of the cost of the project seven days later.
A 40-year-old man was killed Monday in an “off road buggy” crash on a property in Girraween, NT Police said, but two children involved were unhurt in the fatal crash.
Darwin’s property market has seen the highest quarterly growth in house prices among all capital cities, according to recent data, with property experts suggesting continued “fast-paced growth” after years of sluggish performance.
A record-high number of prisoners across the Territory reached 2,903 last week, which has the CLP Government scrambling to recruit record numbers of prison officers, while the union says conditions behind bars remain unsafe after an officer lost an eye last month and have also raised concerns about the continued use of private corrections guards.
The favourable treatment given by the government to former ICAC Michael Riches, departmental CEO Andrew Kirkman, and police commissioner Jamie Chalker contrasts starkly with the less powerful public servants like Maria Rust and Zach Rolfe, leading to further evidence of the NT being a failed state, writes Dr Don Fuller.
What occurred at the Public Accounts Committee hearing on Tuesday should serve as the last indictment on the Northern Territory, and the latest reason for the Federal Government to take over management of our institutions. It’s also shown us how bureaucratic fat cats have weaponised the public service to benefit themselves at the expense of the public.
The Kalymnian Brotherhood says it intends to defy a Health Department order to destroy two tonnes of octopus which it deemed “unsuitable for consumption”, saying the claims were the result of “sabotage” against them by an unknown third party, and that there is nothing wrong with its stock of eight-armed marine mollusks, as the Glenti Festival kicks off this weekend.
Director of Public Prosecutions Lloyd Babb has announced he will resign from his role, effective September, which will leave the Northern Territory without a permanent DPP, police commissioner, ICAC or head of Children and Family Services following resignations from those high-level positions over the past couple months.
The Prime Minister’s Office has no record of correspondence with Darwin Council about why Anthony Albanese allegedly cancelled a trip to attend the council’s ‘VIP’ unveiling ceremony of the controversial Cyclone Tracy memorial sculpture late last year, a Freedom of Information response indicates, despite Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis having claimed he cancelled the event because the Prime Minister could not make it.
Territory taxpayers have bailed out former DIPL chief executive Andrew Kirkman once again, preventing him from testifying in a Federal Circuit Court legal action scheduled for last week about a mental health injury he inflicted on a female staffer when he pounded his desk, screamed at her and told her in a 2021 meeting that her career would be “destroyed” if she challenged him.
