Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison will spend more than $65,000 of taxpayer money to lead a trade delegation to India next week, her office has revealed, which it said would include two ministerial staff, three industry department staff and one “representative” from the Department of Chief Minister.
An engine room fire on cattle export ship the Brahman Express has led to authorities directing the vessel back to Darwin Port, authorities have said.
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Two people have been arrested in connection to two armed attacks at the GEMCO Groote Eylandt mine site that saw a female employee held up with an axe by several men and significant property damage caused, resulting in lockdowns of the mine over the weekend and again on Tuesday.
The Tennant Creek and District Times’ owner, editor and reporter Tash Adams’ role as the Barkly Regional Council media advisor and executive assistant to the Mayor and chief executive officer has been described as “ethically untenable” by a journalism ethics academic.
Two 12-year-olds and a 14-year-old who allegedly stole a car before later stealing fuel and causing damage to “multiple businesses” across the Greater Darwin region and threatening people with a knife, have been arrested and are facing multiple charges, NT Police said.
The NT Government is considering challenging a landmark decision by the NT Supreme Court this week that found the Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities is responsible for delivering safe drinking water to residents in the remote community of Laramba.
A 56-year-old man who allegedly raped a woman in a lane in the Darwin CBD on Tuesday afternoon before fleeing the scene has been arrested, NT Police said.
Both the federal and Territory governments will not say if they were owed money by the failed Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation which was placed in administration in early August, after having mining royalty funding cut by traditional owners, but which had kept providing services using other money.
The Fyles Government have “fooled the public” into thinking they are safer now that transit security guards have been armed with capsicum spray, the union representing the NT’s police officers says, which is nothing more than a “cheap policing program” that will lead to “disaster”.
Wulagi supermarket owner Vinay Madasu and his company are facing legal action after the Fair Work Ombudsman accused the company of owing a worker more than $68,000 in back pay.
UPDATED: Two men have died, and a woman is in intensive care, after two separate shootings involving three people in Karama and Millner on Tuesday afternoon and evening, with one shooting thought to have involved a couple, NT Police said.
