Five boys, aged between 12 and 15, who were all on bail allegedly assaulted and robbed a Darwin taxi driver Monday night, forcing him to abandon his car and call for help, NT Police said.
Land councils say they were not fully consulted on Fyles Government’s new pastoral land change
The Central Land Council and the Northern Land Council have said they were not fully consulted on the NT government’s decision to change laws they say will diminish native title rights and risk the destruction of Aboriginal sacred sites, the media has reported.
Larrakia Cultural Centre at waterfront to proceed after cash injection
The Larrakia Development Corporation is set to begin construction of Darwin’s Larrakia Cultural Centre before the end of the year after it acquired $56 million in funding from the Aboriginal Benefits Account.
Darwin Mayor’s wife’s connections to Chinese Govt’s Confucius Institute exposed
EXCLUSIVE: Darwin Mayor Kon Vatskalis’s “cooperation agreements” with Chinese government officials have been called into question after it was revealed in an internal CDU email that his wife is the current director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Confucius Institute, following years of public denials she had any connections to the organisation.
Middle Arm concept drawing showed four petrochemical export jetties: FOI documents
Fyles Government concept drawings for the so-called sustainable Middle Arm industrial area show four out of five export jetties could be used for shipping gas and petrochemicals, with the graphics given to the Federal Government around the same time the Chief Minister was denying there would be petrochemicals, material obtained under Freedom of Information laws show.
‘I have friends in China’: Fyles’ secret meeting with Chinese Ambassador only reported in China
The Chief Minister and other senior government officials secretly met with the Chinese Ambassador to Australia in Darwin to reportedly discuss a “willingness to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields”, the Chinese state media reported, while the Fyles Government did not publicly disclose the meeting to Territorians.
Allegations raised against Indigenous corporation chair; unrelated fraud claims and police investigation surface
Members of a remote Aboriginal corporation have called on its chair to stand down following serious allegations made against her, while unrelated allegations of the theft of more than $1 million from the organisation appear to be the subject of a police investigation involving possible raids.
Third person charged in connection with suspected murder of Tony Rowe
Northern Territory Police has charged a third person over the suspicious disappearance of Darwin man Tony Rowe in May last year.
INPEX-led study to explore Darwin’s potential as ‘clean’ hydrogen hub
A $1 million feasibility study into a potential “clean hydrogen market” in Darwin will be funded by the Federal Government through a group comprised of INPEX, Santos, Xodus and Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, the NT Government said, but critics argue it’s “greenwashing” the larger gas projects at Middle Arm.
Qantas’ Canberra to Darwin route takes off on June 9th
QantasLink will resume its Canberra to Darwin seasonal service five times weekly from June 9 until September 29 this year, after the service was cut in 2021.
NT tourism suffering this year despite govt’s $35.5 million infusion
The number of tourists coming to the Territory continues to be significantly down weeks into this year’s peak visitor season with hotel occupancy rates at only 56 per cent for May, despite the Fyles Government’s claims of injecting $35.5 million to boost the local tourism sector.
Fuel card rorts: Independent board that sets pollies’ benefits refuses to explain
EXCLUSIVE: The independent body that determines NT politicians’ salaries and benefits has refused to explain how two Labor MLAs were able to charge taxpayers for personal holidays on their government fuel cards through a benefit scheme that does not appear to exist.