Police Minister Brent Potter and Police Commissioner Michael Murphy have contradicted themselves in interviews about how they will provide a pledged 50 extra police in Alice Springs, while the union representing police said they believed officers would have to be brought in from remote communities, recently estimating the Territory was about 200 officers short.
An 11-year-old boy, and two 13-year-old boys allegedly broke into an 80-year-old woman’s home in Alice Springs, with one of them throwing a rock into her head, which required the woman to be treated in hospital, NT Police said.
A man who was involved in attempted axe attacks on shoppers is on the run, while a police officer suffered a serious puncture wound on her arm after attempting to arrest him and another man involved in the violent shopping centre incident, NT Police said.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy denied 57 days of sick leave to a police officer who served for 40 years in the NT, and who now has a “difficult” health prognosis relying on the hope of a “medical discovery”, without reason or justification, Fair Work Commissioner Bernie Riordan has said.
A Federal Court judge has halted Santos’ work on the southern part of its Barossa gas pipeline that runs within 7km of the Tiwi Islands until potentially mid-January, when a ruling is made on an application by some residents over a new environmental plan for the project, while the peak petroleum body says the decision has damaged the economic and energy security of Australia and its international partners.
The NT’s biggest music festival, Bassinthegrass 2024, has announced its lineup, featuring local and international acts when it returns to Mindil Beach in Darwin on May 18 next year.
Two men have been arrested after allegedly assaulting a group of five with a metal pole, a machete and a guitar case full of other weapons, leaving one man with head injuries and a lacerated ear at a bus exchange, NT Police said.
The Fyles Government has released its water allocation plan for the Georgina and Wiso basins, which was a requirement to permit fracking in the Beetaloo basin, but the government has manipulated the aquifer re-fill data produced by a hydrologist it employed, to only include the last 50 years, which is skewed by an extremely large recharge caused by Cyclone Tracy.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles must immediately divest her shares in gas giant Woodside Energy or abstain from any further Cabinet discussions and public promotion of the Middle Arm industrial precinct, a leading national integrity expert says, amid a growing political storm for the Territory Labor leader.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ shares in gas giant Woodside Energy – a proponent of the Labor Government’s proposed Middle Arm precinct – will be examined as part of the upcoming Senate inquiry into the multi-billion dollar gas development, an independent Senator says.
Palmerston Council must spend $76,500 to improve safety as part of an enforceable undertaking it agreed to in exchange for having nine charges dropped that were laid after the near-drowning of a worker in 2020, NT Work Safe said.
A 12-year-old boy and two teenage boys have been charged over an aggravated robbery at a service station in Ludmilla on Sunday, where one of the boys allegedly assaulted a male employee with a screwdriver, causing a minor injury, NT Police has said.
