Police Minister Brent Potter has refused to resign following revelations he shared racist, homophobic and misogynistic posts on social media, saying he has “been on a journey” since posting the material and that Territory Labor knew about the posts before they preselected him in 2022.
Three teens and a 23-year-old were arrested yesterday by the dog squad after allegedly stealing dozens of bottles of wine and beer from Casuarina Square shopping centre, where the males allegedly threatened staff and attempted to flee on foot with a trolley full of their haul, NT Police said.
NT Police Association president Nathan Finn has said he told Police Minister Brent Potter he found it difficult to see how he could continue in the role because of his Facebook posts sharing racist and anti-Semitic material, and said Chief Minister Eva Lawler’s defence of him “sent a damaging message”.
Drug use in the NT is up by more than five percentage points with 25.2 per cent of Territorians using an illegal substance last year, compared to 19.6 per cent in 2019, with cannabis and hallucinogens leading the charge, a new study has found.
Mosquito repellents are being distributed and agencies are trying to disrupt breeding spots as high rainfall has lead to plague levels of the disease-carrying insects in Tennant Creek, the ABC has reported.
A man who robbed a service station with a knife rode off on a pushbike with a small number of items he stole, NT Police said.
The fallout from revelations that Police Minister Brent Potter shared racist posts on social media came quick on Wednesday, with an independent MLA calling for Mr Potter to resign over his “sickening” behaviour, while Chief Minister Eva Lawler backed her minister, despite claiming in a statement that “there is no room for racism in the Territory”.
Nicole Hurwood has been appointed as the Commissioner for Public Employment, a promotion from her role as a deputy chief executive officer in NT Health.
Four youths broke into a Berrimah business and stole mobility scooters which they rode about 10km to East Arm where they broke into other businesses, NT Police said, while in another incident a Good Samaritan had his car stolen after stopping to help some youths who were trying to change a tyre on a stolen car.
An 81-year-old woman was robbed at knifepoint by a group of three youths, which included a seven-year-old boy, while five youths were arrested after a series of robberies in the Darwin CBD, NT Police said.
An armed man allegedly attempted to enter the Alice Springs Hospital over the weekend, forcing hospital workers to barricade themselves inside while waiting more than for 40 minutes for the police to arrive, exposing the NT Government’s lack of “code black” data in hospitals, the Opposition CLP says, and causing safety fears.
The NT Government has announced a second large scale battery storage project for the Darwin-Katherine power grid before the first batteries have been tested, which are expected to be running by the end of the year the Chief Minister says.
