The co-chair of the Uluru Statement and a key proponent of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Pat Anderson was forced by the NT’s corruption watchdog to re-establish a legally-mandated Indigenous advisory board to the Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education which she chairs, however close to a year after agreeing, the organisation will not say what progress has been made.
Creditors have voted to wind up the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, a well-placed source has said, with financial records showing the organisation continued to provide services despite almost $2 million in funding for those services having been withheld, with money being shuffled from elsewhere in the organisation to cover the shortfall.
A man has survived after he was hit by a car and thrown up to 20 metres through the air and off the Channel Island bridge, landing on the rocks below, the media has reported.
Fortescue Energy has laid off all its NT staff members except former chief minister Michael Gunner who appears to have been promoted in the quiet shake-up to “director of business development in Australia and New Zealand”.
Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison will be flying overseas on a taxpayer-funded trade mission to India soon, the state media reported, but provided no estimated costs for the voyage.
A vote on a motion proposing Darwin Council publicly support the Yes vote in the upcoming referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has been delayed until after the referendum, rendering it redundant, after a councillor had the debate adjourned Tuesday night.
Labor MP Marion Scrymgour is calling for urgent attention to address the rise in illegal drug use in remote areas, which she said has recently resulted in multiple suicides on the Tiwi Islands.
Hundreds of Territorians took part in a day of action across the NT on Tuesday, calling on the government to properly fund domestic and family violence services, a month after it was revealed the Fyles Government had only funded $20 million of the required $180 million requested by the sector.
WARNING DISTURBING CONTENT: A Darwin crocodile researcher who referred to dogs as “sex toys” has pled guilty to charges including beastiality, animal cruelty, and possessing child abuse material, having filmed the extreme torture and killing of 39 dogs he had mostly sourced from Gumtree, where in some instances he had convinced distressed owners who were moving interstate that their pets were going to a good home.
A Darwin councillor has called on council members to support the Yes campaign in the upcoming referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which could see council distributing Yes material and staff wearing t-shirts and badges showing their support, if the motion passes.
UPDATED: The woman charged over Chief Minister Natasha Fyles being hit in the face by what’s believed to be a cream-covered crepe on Sunday morning has been identified as a Darwin real estate agent.
Netflix’s six-part modern-western drama Desert King has commenced production in South Australia and is expected to film in undisclosed parts of the Northern Territory, after the Fyles Government contributed $1.3 million to the costs of the production that will mostly be produced in SA.
