Former Northern Territory administrator Vicki O’Halloran has been directly appointed to a new job at Charles Darwin University by the vice-chancellor through a process called ‘appointment by invitation’, which does not require it to be advertised, the university has said.
Grants of up to $15,000 for GP registrars willing to relocate to the Northern Territory in the first training term next year, and stay for at least six months, are being put up by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
NT taxpayers will pick up the tab to accommodate, feed and transport Alice Springs youth detention staff in Darwin for up to four months, after inmates from the troubled town are moved to Don Dale Youth Detention Centre while the central Australian facility is renovated, according to a recently released government tender.
A young child was allegedly assaulted overnight while seemingly sleeping in a caravan in Nightcliff by a man who entered through a window, NT Police said.
Three unnamed people, including one with a position that does not appear to exist, accompanied Chief Minister Natasha Fyles on her controversial taxpayer-funded trip to the US at an additional cost of more than $60,000, according to Katie Woolf.
Two men have been arrested in Humpty Doo after a three hour stand off with Territory Response Group members and police negotiators on Wednesday, NT Police said, but the agency has given no details of their alleged crimes.
Two teenagers have been arrested for breaking into a Coolalinga shopping centre and stealing alcohol, NT Police said.
Fortescue Future Industries’ director of Australia-West Michael Gunner had the media removed from the room before his speech at the NT Resources Week conference on Wednesday, after the NT Independent ran a story about the anti-corruption watchdog investigating Mr Gunner and his office for allegedly misappropriating taxpayer money during the 2020 election.
Two officers have been given national bravery awards for their heroic actions during violent rioting at Wadeye, bravery that was suppressed as part of a cover-up of the extent of the violence by both the NT Police and the Fyles Government, which had led to more than 400 people being left homeless during the “humanitarian situation”.
Qantas has cut flights to and from the Northern Territory, including between Darwin and Alice Springs, amid the NT tourism industry’s calls for the airline to reconnect with Alice Springs and other regional destinations.
The Fyles Government celebrated building new homes in Galiwin’ku this week by crediting Labor’s Member for Arafura for the builds, which he proudly said would continue to be built to help his constituents, only they weren’t actually built in his electorate.
Former Darwin councillor Paul Arnold has broken his silence on the $100,000 tourism grant his photography business was awarded and says he will defend the string of domestic violence charges against him.
