The Angurugu cyclone shelter was not open for the community until Tuesday morning, about three days after the tropical storm that became Cyclone Megan hit Groote Eylandt, knocking out electricity and water in the community that has many non-cyclone coded homes, but the government will not explain why it was kept closed.
Urban Rampage, which operates retail stores in Nhulunbuy, Tennant Creek, Katherine, and Alice Springs, said the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s decision to hold the company’s Centrepay facility indefinitely is having a disastrous effect on its First Nations customers.
A missing man’s body was found on the side of the Stuart Highway on Tuesday, NT Police said, with initial investigations indicating he may have been killed after falling from a vehicle.
Police are investigating the alleged assault of four students at O’Loughlin Catholic College in Darwin, NT Police has said.
The CLP’s spokesman on domestic violence Steve Edgington has defended his staffer after The Australian revealed the staffer’s “serious domestic violence” history, which has seen him face NT courts 27 times in the past four years, including for breaches of bail and contravening a domestic violence order, but later said he would be suspended until his criminal history could be verified.
A Darwin Middle School teacher has been charged for allegedly hitting a student in class, NT Police said.
Sites for three of the four proposed residential youth justice facilities in Darwin, Tennant Creek, and Alice Springs have been selected, with a fourth facility being planned for the Katherine region, the Chief Minister said, while also announcing the people who will lead the government’s Youth Justice Review.
The Chief Minister has said there is a “strong” possibility of the Stuart Highway closing because of rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan which caused only minimal damage in Borroloola, while South32 is still waiting to fully investigate the damage to its manganese export wharf on Groote Eylandt caused by bulk carrier MV Anikitos hitting it during the category three cyclone.
Two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old, who were chased by police after allegedly stealing a taxi they had been passengers in, have been arrested NT Police said.
There will be no disciplinary action taken against senior police officers who gave evidence to the coroner denying the TRG’s Nooguda award was racist until an investigation into the matter is complete, Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has said, which followed the lifting of a suppression order on the publication of certificates handed out with the award, including one that had an Aboriginal flag backdrop.
Two businesses in Katherine were robbed with weapons by different groups of kids, while a taxi driver in the town was bashed by a passenger and had his car stolen, NT Police said.
NT Police is investigating a “physical altercation” between a teacher and a student at Darwin Middle School, the Education Department has confirmed.
