Territory Families Minister Ngaree Ah Kit has admitted the child protection team is short-staffed by close to a third, but maintained they can provide 24-hour weekend staffing in Alice Springs while not able to say how many staff were rostered on each shift, which a local MLA has said would make it impossible for the government to deliver what they pledged.
The first four paramedics trained by Flinders University in the Northern Territory have graduated the university has said.
Two Palmerston men have been arrested and charged after police raided their homes in Bakewell and Gray on November 29, where police found child abuse materials on their electronic devices, the Joint Anti-Child Exploitation Team (JACET) has said; while another man was arrested for transmitting child abuse material to people three states.
A man in Tennant Creek has been charged with raping and threatening to kill a woman he knew, NT Police said.
Offenders who commit crimes in Darwin and other urban centres can choose to be sentenced in their home remote community, as part of a new “community court sentencing” program implemented by the Fyles Government earlier this month, that sources say will silence victims, cut prosecutors out of the sentencing process and reduce the public’s awareness of how offenders are dealt with by the courts.
A member of the NT Police executive has said an investigation into the alleged rape of a seven-year-old girl in Tennant Creek was not something the public “reasonably” needed to know about, appearing to contradict the agency’s official transparency guidelines, while police have refused to say when the alleged attack happened.
Police have suppressed the sexual assault of a seven-year-old child in Tennant Creek and refused to say if the offender has been arrested, breaching their own transparency guidelines, an independent MLA has said.
A teenager has been arrested over a burglary in Tennant Creek but others involved are still on the run, NT Police said.
NT WorkSafe has charged a Darwin-based solar installation and electrical company and its manager for failing to ensure the safety of its workers while working on the roof of a commercial building in August, which could see the company on the hook for more than $6 million in fines if found guilty.
A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection to an alleged sexual assault in Alice Springs that occurred last week, NT Police said, only issuing a statement after being sent questions by the NT Independent.
Australia’s newest low-cost airline Bonza has launched its Melbourne – Alice Springs route, with its maiden flight due to touchdown in Alice Springs later today.
The lawyer appointed to investigate the Barkly Regional Council has told a former employee that she has been excluded from examining code of conduct complaints against elected members, chief executive officers, or other staff, despite serious allegations of bullying, harassment, and mismanagement at the troubled council, which include the bungled handling of a sexual harassment complaint made by a young Indigenous woman.
