The Finocchiaro Government has spent $8.1 million converting part of Holtze Prison into a standalone women’s section, but has still not disclosed the overall cost of its five-year prison master plan, as inmate numbers continue to rise to just 50 prisoners below the capacity the government said it would be able to house by 2028.
NT WorkSafe has issued a safety alert following an incident at the Darwin Civic Centre construction site, where an excavator bucket injured a 50-year-old worker last week, while the City and contractor DCOH said they are cooperating with authorities.
Severe performance failures in the NT’s healthcare system have been labelled “deeply disappointing”, with the failure to meet national service delivery targets raising serious concerns about the state of healthcare in the Territory.
Two men have been arrested at an industrial yard in Woolner for their alleged role in dozens of thefts and burglaries across the Darwin and Palmerston region since last November, with NT Police recovering “a large quantity” of stolen property they want to reunite with owners. SEE THE PICTURES
Attendance rates at Northern Territory schools in 2025 dropped by half a per cent on 2024 despite the introduction of truancy officers in November of that year. Education Minister Jo Hersey said today she was doubling down on her government’s plan to get kids to school and hold parents accountable for non-attendance, but did not directly reference the marginal decline.
Nearly a kilogram and a half of cannabis was seized from a property in Galiwinku on Wednesday after a tip-off that the marijuana arrived in town by boat, NT Police said.
The Finocchiaro Government does not support Territorians paying for a gun buyback scheme and has rejected any centrally imposed policy mandate about firearms ownership, but the Albanese Government is planning to introduce legislation under which states and territories can use a background and identity check system based on federal criminal agency intelligence before someone is issued with a gun licence.
A 33-year-old man has been charged over alleged domestic violence against a woman, and traffic and drug offences committed in Darwin on Sunday, including making a threat to “burn or explode”, NT Police said.
Two 14-year-olds, a 15-year-old, and a 16-year-old have been charged with aggravated burglary and other charges relating to alleged property offending in Tennant Creek over the last two weeks, while extra officers have been sent to the town for an unspecified period of time, NT Police said.
Cattle station manager David Connolly has been announced as the next Administrator of the Northern Territory by Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro, following a period of at least five months in which she said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would not approve his selection.
An Alice Springs man who tried to complain about how the Health and Community Services Complaints Commission handled his health treatment complaint discovered the review committee meant to scrutinise the commission no longer existed, having been left dormant after Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby failed to appoint members, while she claimed it would be premature to do so ahead of the establishment of a proposed new integrity body.
Police Commissioner Martin Dole told the former head of public prosecutions that Zach Rolfe should be charged with murder over the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker, but did not have a conflict of interest despite his childhood relationship with the victim’s family, a new ICAC report has found, which also concluded that police management’s failure to record major decisions in the case was “unfortunate” and “surprising” but did not amount to improper conduct.
