The NT Police Association has said an extra 200 officers recruited over fours years is a good first step to improving policing, while some officers on sick leave had been “damaged” by the lack of resources provided by the government and executive and would never be coming back to work, which has also led to a need for more officers.
The Northern Territory economy shrunk by 5.2 per cent to $30.1 billion last year, driven by declining net exports, according to new government data, which casts further doubts around the Lawler Government’s claims of building a $40 billion economy by the end of the decade.
Two women have been charged with the commercial supply of methamphetamine after the alleged seizure of 500 grams of the drug last week from a Darwin rural area property, NT Police said, as part of an ongoing operation into the meth trade in the Greater Darwin region.
The Lawler Government has released the long-awaited review into police resources, which made 18 recommendations to improve the NT Police force, following a decade of “deeply traumatic organisational events” that led to multiple organisational failures, including the inability to properly allocate its resources.
Royal Darwin Hospital has minimal neonatologist and nurses qualified to work in its neonatal intensive care unit, which led to its level of care in the unit being downgraded, the Nursing and Midwifery Federation has said.
The Lawler Government has extended the Alice Springs youth curfew for another six days, after it was recommended in a meeting of the Territory Emergency Management Council yesterday.
Official documents have revealed the Lawler Government made an error concerning which ministry was supposed to declare the Alice Springs “emergency situation”, raising further questions about the legality of the youth curfew and whether police have been exposed to legal risk in carrying out the orders.
The neonatal intensive care unit at Royal Darwin Hospital is no longer treating children born before 32 weeks gestation because of a lack of staff, the Health Department has said, with no timeframe for when it will be caring for younger babies again.
Four males allegedly stole a car after breaking into a Darwin CBD residence over the weekend, leading police on a dangerous pursuit through the northern suburbs before a tyre deflation device was used to end the chase in Anula, but which then forced police to pursue the offenders on foot, NT Police said.
A 13-year-old has been charged for allegedly being one of a group of six youths who used rocks to hit the front sliding doors of a Katherine service station and then pushed the doors off the rails, before stealing some items, NT Police said.
Darwin home prices could accelerate next year if anticipated interest rate cuts go through, amid an ongoing housing shortage, a new property forecast report released by Oxford Economics Australia has found.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has had to ask South Australia to send police to Alice Springs because some kids from the APY lands who were “not aware of the curfew” were in town, the Police Minister has claimed amid differing reasons for the reinforcements, but said it had nothing to do with the riots in the streets last week which led to an “emergency situation” declared and youth curfew.
