A work timetable for the upgrade of Darwin Airport’s tarmac will be reportedly be released in the coming days by the Department of Defence to enable airlines to effectively schedule flights into and out of Darwin, as well as aid Territorians in planning their upcoming late year and Christmas holidays, the government said.
The estimated cost of the proposed National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs has increased three-fold since its 2017 announcement, new figures show, while the Territory’s acknowledged contribution has also increased by almost 40 per cent since last March.
The Darwin Street Art Festival will feature Irish artist Aches, who produces large scale psychedelic murals around the world, along with Australian artists Adnate, Filthy Ratbag, Jeswri, Gonketa, and Kitt Bennett, the organisers have announced.
A man was dragged up to 10 metres by a trailer attached to his car which was stolen from an Alice Springs service station, NT Police said.
The Australian Education Union NT said it welcomes the Federal Government’s $40 million equity fund to Alice Springs schools – part of the $250 million package to tackle crime in the region – but called for more accountability on the part of the NT Government after it changed its story on how the funds will be distributed.
Labor MLA Brent Potter has issued an impassioned public plea for information about what he alleges is the suspicious death of a peacock in his electorate that he had been in “awe” of for its “beauty and elegance”.
Six people allegedly broke into a remote roadhouse, stealing alcohol and cash, with some of the group allegedly assaulting an employee, NT Police said.
Allegations of political influence in the ICAC’s investigation into Labor’s alleged misuse of public funds during the 2020 NT election have been raised by independent MLAs, following revelations a party member with undisclosed conflicts of interest was involved, while Commissioner Michael Riches has admitted “errors have been made”.
Researchers at Charles Darwin University have found green turtles use coastal cues to help them migrate, and are not driven by ocean currents as scientists had believed, while they also found there is a lot more rubbish washing up on northern Australian beaches than previously thought.
The Fyles Government has declared 10 new “high risk areas” in the Darwin northern suburbs where police will be permitted to use handheld weapon detectors on people suspected to be carrying knives and other weapons.
Speaker Mark Monaghan’s decision to permit two of his Labor colleagues to use their taxpayer-funded fuel cards for personal interstate holidays was issued secretly on December 23 to an internal government server with no notice – five days after one MLA had already embarked on his trip – and nine days before it came into effect, new documents show.
A fibre-optic submarine cable linking Port Hedland to a Perth to Singapore cable, and thus Darwin to the city-state, has been switched on, fiber and network company Vocus has said.
