UPDATED: Treasurer Eva Lawler will fly to Singapore to attract private investment to the Northern Territory this week, state media and her office reported over the weekend, which comes amid the Chief Minister’s reported high-level meetings in the US with unnamed defence officials, while Business Minister Paul Kirby’s office said on Saturday he was busy overseeing the NT’s first ever “kite festival”.
Former Darwin councillor Paul Arnold has had another complaint filed against him with NT Police, this time by a sitting councillor who alleges he verbally abused and harassed her at Saturday’s Lyons Ward by-election polling station while appearing to wear an electronic ankle monitoring device.
A 14-year-old male and two 20-year-old females have been arrested after allegedly stealing a car on Mitchell Street and smashing into a police vehicle after a long pursuit Sunday night, NT Police said.
Lyons Ward by-election Greens candidate Suki Dorras-Walker is currently leading Mad Snake Cafe owner Sam Weston to be Darwin’s next councillor, in a tight race that will come down to preference votes.
Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeff McLaughlin has pleaded not guilty to possession and supply of cannabis, cultivating cannabis plants, and driving with THC in his body, charges that stemmed from two different roadside drug tests, while a charge of driving under the influence of the drug has been dropped, it has been reported.
A woman who fled into scrubland after running out of a car being pursued by police has been arrested and a handbag containing 43 grams of Cannabis seized as part of a remote roadblock operation on the Central Arnhem Highway, NT Police said.
NT WorkSafe has laid reckless conduct charges against a Queensland-based cattle company, and two of the company’s officers, after an employee’s arm was crushed – and later had to be amputated – while he was working on a Northern Territory station.
Four teens assaulted staff at a Fannie Bay dental clinic shortly after chroming in a nearby cafe, the owner of the practice has said, in a violent attack which was followed the next day by three teens assaulting two women in Darwin city, leading to calls from the business community for more police on the streets.
Two people in Palumpa were hit by a man using an unspecified “blunt weapon” on Wednesday, leaving them with unspecified injuries which required treatment, with the alleged offender unsuccessfully trying to steal their car before running off, and is still on the run, NT Police said.
Auditor-General Julie Crisp has found many “significant deficiencies” in Batchelor Institute’s governance and financial controls, with the situation so dire she could not sign-off on the financials of the annual report, also calling into question student records management in a damning report on the troubled tertiary organisation.
NT Police Deputy Commissioner – and former commissioner Jamie Chalker’s right-hand man – Murray Smalpage has announced he will retire from the role next month after a tumultuous three-year term.
The Airport Development Group will be holding an industry-wide briefing on August 31 at 10 a.m. at the Tindal Room at the Darwin International Airport in advance of the rollout of its upcoming $100 million in upgrade works at Darwin, Alice Springs, and Tennant Creek airports.
