The CLP Government has ordered a three-day “visibility operation” across the Darwin bus network aimed at cracking down on ‘anti-social behaviour’ at “known hot spots and problematic bus routes”, but critics say it’s another “intimidation tactic” targeting vulnerable people.
Education Minister Jo Hersey has become the first CLP minister to admit using the taxpayer-funded white car chauffeur service for a personal trip, raising the prospect of other potential misuse by ministers, but claims she received advice from a body that has nothing to do with the car service that her personal trip to Casuarina was “within the guidelines”, even if “it doesn’t probably float with the public”.
The CLP Government says it will put parents of students who consistently fail to attend school under income management, with critics arguing reinstating the old policy will cause more problems, while questions have also been raised about how the NT Government will enforce the policy and whether the Federal Government was involved in its development.
A 4WD owned by a member of the public allegedly rammed into the side of a stolen ute with children inside, including a 16-year-old driver, in an attempt to stop it after a two-hour dangerous driving rampage that included a campdraft camp in Tennant Creek where it almost ran over three small children, sources have told the NT Independent, while NT Police has provided an account of how the stolen ute was stopped that does not match the photographs of the damaged vehicles.
A man is in a serious condition after being struck in a hit-and-run at Docker River on Sunday morning while the alleged offender still on the run, NT Police said.
Facebook posts showing Public Employment Minister Jo Hersey attending union protest rallies against the previous Labor government’s public service pay freeze have contradicted her claims the union failed to fight against the 2022 pay freeze, but the Minister is now criticising unions for donating to Labor’s 2024 election campaign, which all comes amid a bitter battle over a new contract for public servants.
Three men have been charged for allegedly stealing up to 400 head of cattle from a station in central Australia in August, NT Police said.
CDC bus drivers across the Territory have started wearing campaign-branded hi-visibility vests as part of the Transport Workers’ Union’s escalating work action against the bus operator’s contract offer, which they say falls below industry standards.
Voluntary assisted dying legislation should be adopted in the Northern Territory, a new report by the government’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee has found, but it comes with 86 recommendations including instructions on how to draft the legislation, while the CLP Government has given no indication of when it will be introduced to Parliament.
Tamboran Resources announced that its Beetaloo Joint Venture (BJV) has reached a Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Shenandoah South pilot project and that it has acquired Falcon Oil and Gas, while the NT Government announced that taxpayers will underwrite $75 million of a $180 million loan for a new compression facility to bring Beetaloo gas to market.
The Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics under former senior bureaucrat Andrew Kirkman spent $2 million on a deeply flawed and painfully slow internal investigation into the rorting of millions of taxpayer dollars through the Indigenous Employment Provisional Sum scheme by dozens of Territory contractors, that led to the recovery of only $900,000, new internal government documents show.
A firearms dealer in his 80s has had more than 240 guns and various gun parts seized by police for alleged multiple breaches of the NT Firearms Act, which followed a loaded revolver discharging while police were inspecting it, NT Police said.
