Defence Housing Australia will not clear any land for a controversial housing development at Darwin’s Lee Point until August 11, while the federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek conducts a cultural heritage assessment of the location, Environmental Justice Australia has said.
A 13-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy are facing a series of charges after they allegedly spat on security guards, and a police officer, and assaulted one of the guards, NT Police said.
The Territory’s top judge has been accused of “acting improperly” by a prominent Darwin lawyer over his handling of a complaint against Justice Stephen Southwood that has stalled for nearly two years, after he initially failed to disclose a conflict of interest involving his deep entanglement in the Stella Maris inquiry and “secret communications” following a damning 2015 court ruling.
Judge Alan Woodcock has committed Keith Kerinauia to stand trial for murder over the stabbing death of bottleshop worker Declan Laverty in Darwin in March.
Access to Inpex’s Darwin Ichthys LNG processing plant has been restricted to essential staff only, as flaring is undertaken as part of “production safety system” measures, the company has said.
NT Police are looking for witnesses to an assault in Darwin that left a victim with head injuries and being treated at Royal Darwin Hospital but the agency has given no details on the seriousness of his injuries.
The Fyles Government will employ a consultant to recommend changes to government oversight of the building industry, which could include a building commissioner, the Infrastructure and Planning Minister Eva Lawler said.
EXCLUSIVE: The NT’s anti-corruption commissioner has defended hiring a CLP executive member to oversee reports to his office, after Commissioner Michael Riches first indicated he was not aware of his new investigator’s political ties, the NT Independent can reveal.
A $1 million fund from the NT Government’s $35 million ‘market harder’ budget should be set aside for urgent tourism vouchers to keep Central Australia’s tourism industry alive following continued negative effects of Alice Springs’ crime crisis, the Opposition CLP says.
The company that owns Darwin Fish Market has gone into administration, an Australian Security and Investment Commission notice shows.
A 13-year-old and a 14-year-old have been charged with aggravated robbery but three other young alleged offenders have not been identified following an alleged assault at a service station in Eaton on Tuesday, NT Police said.
Frustrated firefighters say they still do not understand what the Fyles Government is willing to offer them after an almost 1000-day pay dispute, while their union claims Public Employment Minister Paul Kirby cancelled a meeting over the new contract because he said he was too busy on the Northern Territory show circuit.
