A Freedom of Information application seeking a departmental brief provided to former environment minister Kate Worden last year that recommended prosecution of Empire Energy was rejected on legal privilege grounds, a government letter shows, while the department appears to have attempted to cover up one of the three alleged offences referred to in the document.
A Top End worker had their fingertips amputated after suffering severe injuries while operating a self-propelled lawnmower, which kicked off an NT WorkSafe investigation.
The Health Department’s chief executive says the department will “really carefully” manage the deal it intends to sign with a company to run the closed hyperbaric chamber unit at Royal Darwin Hospital, after it was revealed that company’s sole director is the wife of the director of a company that previously held the same contract and went into administration, with its contract terminated by the NT Government.
The Darwin ship lift project has been referred to a government committee to be investigated after years of cost blowouts and delays, with the Finocchiaro CLP Government already flagging the project will still move ahead and anticipated it will now cost “hundreds of millions of dollars” more to build.
NT CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has declared her intention to run for deputy leader of the Liberal Party as part of a leadership ticket with federal shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, following her surprise announcement last week that she will no longer sit with the Nationals in Federal Parliament.
Three board members of Legal Aid NT have resigned following Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby’s appointment of Catherine Voumard as the organisation’s new director, which contradicted an independent selection panel’s recommendation, an internal email shows.
A 16-year-old male and two females, aged 15 and 21, have been arrested in connection with an aggravated robbery and an assault at a home that occurred in Nightcliff on Friday morning, NT Police said, amid claims of an increased police presence in the area.
EXCLUSIVE: The animal abuse investigation into Territory Coordinator Stuart Knowles was suddenly terminated by current Mining and Energy CEO Alister Trier while he was CEO of Primary Industries, the NT Independent can reveal, raising concerns about the perceived favour and the potential for coercion of the most powerful public servant in the Northern Territory.
The nearly year-long investigation into allegations of improper conduct by anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches involving female employees in the workplace has finally been completed and referred to ICAC Inspector Bruce McClintock, but the findings of the report will not be released publicly yet, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said.
A male youth under the age of 15 has been charged with indecent touching and attempted rape in connection to the assault of six females in the Darwin northern suburbs over a span of two weeks, NT Police said, but police did not explain why none of the incidents were reported publicly at the time they occurred to warn the public an alleged serial offender was sexually assaulting women.
A 43-year-old woman was killed early Friday morning after being struck by a vehicle while walking along the Stuart Highway, approximately 500 meters north of Virginia Road, NT Police said.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro will not say if she recommended the Attorney-General directly appoint Catherine Voumard as director of Legal Aid NT, a decision that undermined the recommendations of an independent panel struck to hire for the role, which Ms Voumard was not interviewed for.
