A 39-year-old Palmerston man was arrested on Friday following a raid of his home and is currently facing multiple charges related to child abuse material offences, NT Police said.
Opinion: The Failed State Part II – The ethical failures of politicians and senior public servants
Ministers taking jobs in portfolio areas soon after leaving office with no punishment for code of conduct violations, while chief ministers permit ongoing unethical behaviour by the public service and the police executive, all contribute to the NT’s status as a failed state, writes Dr Don Fuller.
Local council sacked by Minister three months out from election
Members of the Coomalie Community Government Council have been officially sacked by the Local Government Minister over “serious and sustained deficiencies in the council’s governance and operations”.
Waterfront scandal referred for investigation as corruption motion in Parliament delayed
UPDATED: Opposition Leader Selena Uibo last night referred “potential fraud and gross conflicts of interest” at the Darwin Waterfront Corporation involving the Chief Minister’s husband to Parliament’s public accounts committee, citing “serious allegations involving significant sums of public money”.
CLP scraps ‘underfunded’ new Darwin Art Gallery building
The CLP Government has scrapped the currently in-progress State Square Art Gallery project in the Darwin CBD, suggesting a massive cost blowout, and will now put the future use of the site and “state-of-the-art” building to a public expression of interest process in hopes someone might want to do something with it.
‘An unsigned briefing carries no weight’: Minister did not see legal advice to prosecute Empire Energy
Environment Minister Joshua Burgoyne said he has not been provided a legal briefing that recommended prosecution against Empire Energy and has not asked to see it, while his department has since decided the company did nothing wrong in relation to one of the alleged offences, but will not provide any details of what it is the company was involved in.
CLP eyes changes to Darwin bus network, scrapping major bus interchanges
The CLP Government will overhaul the public bus network in Darwin and Palmerston, including closing the Casuarina bus interchange by October, followed by staged closures of both the Darwin and Palmerston interchanges, which it said will make the system safer for the community.
‘We have a prison system like Asia’: Corrections sources speak about the dangers of Holtze prison overcrowding
A Holtze prison corrections officer who lost an eye after having a crutch thrown at him was working alone at the time he was attacked by a prisoner who had not been properly classified for his threat risk, part of a wider problem of overcrowding and understaffing, prison insiders have said, but the Corrections Department insists prisoners are being properly classified.
Darwin civic centre tower opponents warn council of potential class action over use of car park levies
The applicants of a Federal Court action seeking details of a secret deal Darwin Council signed with a developer to build a 21-storey civic centre-private office tower say they have dropped the original case because a court date would be too late to stop construction, but said they are still looking at a claim to stop millions of dollars in car park levies being spent on the building and instead returned to developers and property owners who have paid the fees.
Territory Coordinator’s hidden work history revealed amid lack of public recruitment for role
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has defended hiring former low-level bureaucrat and one-time gas lobbyist Stuart Knowles as the Territory Coordinator, claiming on radio that he was hand-selected for the role without going through a public recruitment process because of his “vast experience” in the government and private industry and for his record of delivering “major projects”, but his work background suggests neither claim is accurate, the NT Independent can reveal.
Public servants to be made redundant rather than provided two years to find a job under new proposal
NT public servants will have a redeployment option taken from them and the Commissioner for Public Employment will be able to make determinations about their employment outside of the current enterprise agreement under a proposal put forward amid ongoing negotiations, the Community and Public Sector Union says, adding it could result in job cuts.
Stolen vehicle spree through Darwin northern suburbs leads to 13 arrests, one crash
Eleven youths and two adults were arrested in connection to a string of stolen vehicles across Darwin overnight that saw one stolen ute crashed on the highway north of Adelaide River, resulting in two adults and two youths arrested and taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries, NT Police said, with other offenders still on the run.