NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has promoted Martin Dole to Deputy Commissioner after 27 years as an officer in the force, including as one of the officers who carried out the controversial arrest of Zach Rolfe for murder four days after the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker in 2019.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler disclosed the location of a Darwin region domestic violence shelter as part of a political photo-op that she publicly distributed in political material, an MLA has alleged, suggesting it could put victims’ lives at risk and calling for the government to pay for increased security at the facility.
A man was killed in a cement truck roll over at King Ash Bay on Thursday, NT Police said.
Two people were assaulted in the yard of their Alice Springs property by a large group of people, NT Police said, an attack which happened in the same short industrial street as an aggravated burglary of a business the night before.
The Lawler Government will introduce legislation to legalise youth curfews across the Northern Territory, after refusing to admit last month that the “emergency situation” ordered in Alice Springs following riots in the town may have been unlawful, which an independent MLA said was only being done now to “fix their latest cock up”.
A man was arrested at the Alice Springs Hospital for allegedly assaulting his partner, leaving her wandering the streets at night with cuts to her face and head, NT Police said.
A man was taken to hospital in a serious condition with cuts to his hands, arms, chest, and back after he was attacked by a woman with an edged weapon in Katherine, NT Police said.
A 28-year-old woman allegedly assaulted a man with an “edged weapon” outside a Tennant Creek residence on Wednesday night in a domestic violence incident before attacking another woman who intervened and fleeing the scene, NT Police said.
Police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying those responsible for a number of grass fires police believe were deliberately lit along Grevillea Road in Katherine on Wednesday evening.
The CLP Opposition has outlined its election platform during its Budget reply speech in Parliament Wednesday morning, billing it as a “roadmap to rebuild the Territory”, which will include more cash for first home buyers to get more new homes built.
The Federal Government has refused to say whether it will commit any funds toward the roughly $1 billion cost of a new Darwin city football stadium and other grounds to support a new Territory AFL team, as it has committed to Tasmania, while former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire said if there was to be a Northern Territory team, it should be “a long way down the track”.
Two Darwin service stations were robbed overnight, with five males arrested, and a large group of females still on the run, NT Police said.
