The Territory’s deficit this year will be more than double what the Fyles Government claimed in May, with net debt also expected to continue to increase to $10.2 billion in two years, according to the mid-year fiscal report tabled in Parliament Tuesday night.
Electric scooter and bike hire company Beam has commenced operations in Darwin, and the company said it will have employees on the street in high traffic areas monitoring the safety of people’s riding with a three-strike policy for those caught riding dangerously or breaking the law.
NT Police have warned the public not to approach a man they believe breached his bail, but failed to tell the public he had previously served time for killing a man in a remote community.
The Fyles Government has introduced “tough” new alcohol laws in Parliament to be passed on urgency, that will see Darwin bottle shops prevented from opening until noon on weekdays, security guards armed with capsicum spray and the banned drinker register expanded, amongst other changes, which the Opposition said should have been done sooner.
Territory Families Minister Ngaree Ah Kit says she will be “looking very closely” at having youth workers on the streets of Alice Springs 24-hours-a-day, something the Police Minister said two weeks ago would definitely happen.
Northern Territory traditional owners presented a hand-painted map of the Roper River to Federal Parliament along with a petition on Tuesday – with the group hosted by NT Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy – as part of a campaign to protect the river and oppose the Fyles Government’s recently released water plan that manipulated the data used to underpin it.
An unidentified offender is on the run after stealing a 4WD and colliding it with a stationary car occupied by a woman and a one-year-old girl, NT Police said.
A man who allegedly drove his vehicle at a woman before crashing into the house behind her has been charged with recklessly endangering serious harm, and being armed with an offensive weapon, NT Police said.
The GEMCO mine on Groote Eylandt has been broken into for a third time in less than two months, sources have said.
Territory Labor’s support has plummeted to new lows that would see it lose power if the election were held today, a new independent poll shows, with only 19.7 per cent of Territorians polled saying they would support the scandal-plagued Fyles Government.
Young offenders are still on the run after throwing rocks at police following a ram raid of an Alice Springs service station, NT Police said, which followed the arrest of eight children aged between 11 and 13 for stealing a car, while a prominent businessman says the town is in a similar situation to last year, despite the Fyles Government’s summer crime reduction ‘plan’.
The Northern Land Council has laid out its final submissions in a “$225 million” compensation claim against the NT government on behalf of the Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra peoples over the expansion of the McArthur River Mine, the media has reported.
