Former NT Police Association president Vince Kelly will head the Fyles Government’s review into the NT Police, the government unilaterally announced despite pledging a bipartisan approach to the review, while calls continue for a proper independent inquiry led by a retired judge due to unresolved allegations of potential corrupt and criminal conduct.
The Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations will take no action against the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation after a four year investigation that followed raids on the corporation’s Jabiru headquarters.
The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education has settled a compensation claim made by its former chief financial officer but it has not disclosed how much they paid her after she took the institute to the Federal Court over her dismissal.
Enrollments in GP vocational training in the Northern Territory have plummeted by 80 per cent over the past seven years, with only 14 commencing this year, a new study has found, raising calls for urgent action.
Resources company Tivan has said it has extended by six months a “not to deal’ agreement with the Fyles Government over a plot of land where it might build a minerals processing plant at the controversial proposed Middle Arm industrial area.
More than a dozen bottles of spirits, along with wine casks and a carton of beer, destined for dry communities in the Victoria River Region were seized and destroyed by NT Police last weekend, with charges against multiple people pending for attempting to bring booze into restricted areas.
A 28-year-old woman is in hospital after what appears to be a stabbing in the street, that police media reported as an “assault with an edged weapon”, indicating that the woman suffered a punctured left lung.
UPDATED: A man who was tasered by police outside a Nightcliff house, after what NT Police said was a more than 24-hour standoff with authorities that followed the man allegedly assaulting a woman, has been charged with multiple domestic violence offences and assaulting police.
CLP Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro has finally taken a position on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, telling party members in an email on Tuesday morning that she will be voting no at the upcoming referendum, after months of indecision and creating massive turmoil in the party.
Charles Darwin University will use genomics to conduct a study on biting midges, looking at their potential to transmit severe animal blood-borne diseases that could damage the Australian livestock industry, the university has said.
A large bushfire at Darwin River earlier this month that destroyed one home and several vehicles “appears to be accidental”, the NT Police have concluded after previously describing the fire as “suspicious”.
A joint funding announcement of $1.35 million from the five-year-old Darwin City Deal will “transform” Darwin’s laneways and minor streets to be more attractive and enticing places for locals and visitors, the Fyles Government has said, but failed to mention ongoing nightly crime in the CBD that has led to one popular eatery closing its doors.
