Chief Minister Natasha Fyles failed to publicly disclose on her parliamentary register a potential conflict of interest involving her husband working for a major health provider that has reportedly been paid more than a quarter of a billion dollars by the NT Government, an independent MLA says.
A man who tried to intervene in a service station break-in was hit with an axe after having fled to his car, while two men have been arrested over the assault and the burglary in Nightcliff on Thursday afternoon, NT Police said.
NT Police has said its investigation file on last year’s crash of Matt Wright’s company’s helicopter includes evidence of maintenance and fuel records, expert opinions concerning the fuel system and airworthiness of the aircraft, and toxicology analyses of individuals involved in the crash.
The Territory’s gross state product decreased by 5.3 per cent in the last financial year, the weakest result for all states and territories, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show, while an academic said he thought the Fyles Government realised the “future was grim” unless it reduced the public service or gas fracking began in the Beetaloo basin.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has ruled that she will not recuse herself from presiding over the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker saying that she was not persuaded a fair-minded lay person would think she was not impartial.
An Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation has found a helicopter owned by crocodile wrangler Matt Wright “probably” crashed because it ran out of fuel mid-air, with maintenance non-compliance also increasing risk levels for much of the company’s flying, and engine defects likely affecting the chopper’s fuel consumption.
A man was stabbed in the leg on the Alice Springs Hospital lawns on Wednesday, allegedly by a relative, NT Police said.
Four teenagers have been arrested after allegedly using two stolen cars to ram raid a Darwin bottle shop and then attempt to ram police vehicles, before one car was stopped after police used tyre spikes on it twice during a pursuit, NT Police said.
A two-year-old and a 12-year-old were flown to Royal Darwin Hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run in a remote community on Wednesday morning, NT Police said.
Virgin Australia will commence direct flights to Uluru from Melbourne and Brisbane starting June 6 next year, but they will not provide any remedy for ongoing skyrocketing domestic ticket prices that soared more than $3,000 one-way from Darwin recently.
Remote councils in New South Wales receive over six times more federal government financial assistance grants per person than remote NT councils which undermines their ability to maintain their roads, a new report by the Grattan Institute has found.
Lawyers for a group of Gunbalanya and Laramba public housing tenants have argued in the Supreme Court that the rationale behind the NT Government’s flat-rate rental calculations is unethical and unlawfully punishing tenants in remote areas.
