A man who was trying to clear a Darwin street of a bicycle “strategically placed” as an obstacle by four alleged youth offenders aged as young as 11 who had just crashed a stolen vehicle, was threatened with a machete by the group, who then stole his car and drove off before crashing it, NT Police said.
A union has demanded Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman apologise for blaming workers for the delayed opening of the university’s city campus, saying it is “despicable” to blame workers for mismanagement on the project.
Darwin City continues to have the highest vacancy rate of capital cities in the country after recording an increase of 0.23 per cent for the previous quarter, to a 2.69 per cent vacancy rate in January, a new report shows.
Police Minister Brent Potter has been referred to the NT’s anti-corruption body over allegations he attempted to influence the police investigation into CLP politician Josh Burgoyne’s car crash last August by making public comments that an independent MLA says could be seen as a “breach of the separation of powers” and ultimately “misconduct”.
A Tennant Creek senior who was struck in the head with an iron bar during a violent home invasion in December was rushed to Darwin to stop bleeding on his brain after days of delays to proper health treatment, a source has said.
Alice Springs CLP MLA Josh Burgoyne has spoken publicly about a vehicle crash he was involved in last August that sent two healthcare workers to hospital, four days after the incident was made public in the media, and the same day police charged him over the crash.
UPDATED: Alice Springs CLP MLA Josh Burgoyne is facing dangerous driving charges in connection to a car crash last August that injured two healthcare workers, which was not made public until Thursday evening.
Three solar power stations built four years ago were finally connected to the grid late last year, but two are still unable to generate power to the grid, with the other one providing only 25 per cent of its capacity, while the Lawler Government will not say when they will be operating at full capacity or if it is in talks to purchase the solar farms.
The Lawler Government has passed amendments to the Building Act years after unsafe homes and units were discovered that it says will improve safety and boost consumer confidence, but the Opposition rejected the legislation, saying it lacked detail and raised the potential of underqualified or conflicted people controlling building registration.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler has told Parliament the public can wait 30 years to see if beleaguered Minister Chansey Paech disclosed his shares in a liquor wholesale company to Cabinet before discussing remote community grog bans, as calls for Mr Paech’s resignation continued Wednesday.
Suspended Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin is still being investigated by police for sitting on a child during a claimed “citizen’s arrest”, more than five months after it happened, and three months after a man who was threatening the same boy was charged with aggravated assault.
A Coconut Grove man suffered head injuries after his home was broken into and he was bashed and knocked unconscious, with the offenders still in the run, NT Police said.
