The Lawler Government may cut its funding to the Environmental Defenders Office following findings a lawyer with the organisation “distorted and misrepresented” evidence during a Federal Court hearing into Santos’ Barossa gas project, which the Chief Minister suggested was an attempt by the EDO to derail the Territory’s economy.
Sun Cable has appointed a new leadership team to oversee the domestic side of the resuscitated Australia-Asia Power Link project that ultimately aims to transmit solar energy from the NT to Singapore, but which will focus on providing power to Darwin first.
The Lawler Government is currently assessing what information it publicly releases through a secret review that it has provided little information on and refuses to answer questions about.
Two men have been arrested for allegedly raping a female stranger near the Darwin CBD in mid-January NT Police said, an attack police did not make public after the agency became aware of it four days later.
Mission Australia Housing NT and Venture Housing have taken over management of 500 public housing properties in Darwin and Palmerston, which is part of a plan to move up to 40 per cent of urban public housing to community housing providers, the Lawler Government has said.
Ninety-eight per cent of NT Police officers who responded to a union survey believe there are not enough police, and 76 per cent have considered leaving the force in the last six months, the Northern Territory Police Association has said, but Police Minister Brent Potter said the government is on the right track with an 18 per cent increase in morale in the last year.
The passenger of a white Hilux was shot in the leg while driving down a Palmerston street more than a week ago, NT Police said, as investigations continue into who fired the gun from outside a home.
The NT Government awarded $1.9 billion to companies and individuals in 2023 through 1,662 public and select tenders, an NT Independent analysis of government documents shows, which includes lucrative contracts to CDU, construction companies and one lawyer also made the top 10 this year.
The 2.5km stretch of the Adelaide to Darwin railway track that was damaged due to flood waters has been repaired ahead of schedule, enabling the resumption of backlogged freight services through Tennant Creek to Darwin, the government has said.
More than 80 Technical and Further Education courses across a broad range of sectors, including construction, child and aged care, and hospitality and tourism will be available at reduced fees for Territorians as part of a joint federal and Territory government program designed to upskill the workforce.
A two-kilometre section of the Stuart Highway that has been under repair for at least 10 months was not bituminised before the Wet season rains, which was the major cause of food supply disruptions in Darwin, the NT Independent understands, with the full extent of the situation not initially disclosed by the government.
The NT has once again ranked as the economic laggard among all states in terms of overall economic performance in the CommSec quarterly State of the States report, led by weakening key economic indicators in housing finance, construction and rising unemployment.
