UPDATED: The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed the sentence handed out to 24-year-old Jake Danby for hit-and-run causing death, following public uproar over the lenient sentence this week which spared him jail time, despite Danby bragging in text messages about hitting two Aboriginal men, killing one of them, who he called an “oxygen thief” while saying he would not go to jail.

The 24-year-old man who struck two Aboriginal men with his car, leaving one to die as he fled the scene, and who received no jail time this week for the crime, is related to Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby, who publicly commented on the matter Thursday morning at a press conference, but did not disclose the familial relation and her clear conflict of interest.

Territory bus drivers employed by private operator CDC have started protected industrial action drawing attention to increasing incidents of assaults, rock throwing, and other threats workers face, as part of their demands for better pay and working conditions, which comes one year to the day since a driver was kicked in the head while driving 70km/h down the Stuart Highway.

After many months of searching, the Finocchiaro CLP Government has hired a former adviser to the NSW police commissioner and noted “crisis management specialist” as its new director of communications.

A 24-year-old Darwin man who was spared jail time this week after killing an Aboriginal man with his car in 2024 and leaving another injured before fleeing the scene and bragging in text messages to mates about teaching an “oxygen thief” a lesson may have his sentence appealed by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.