Three mayoral candidates say they would like to see the 21-storey hybrid civic centre-private office tower currently being built in partnership with developer DCOH stopped if elected, and also supported a review or an investigation of the decision-making process for the project, while none of the current councillors would provide their thoughts about the project on the record.
The Darwin Entertainment Centre is now officially called the AANT Centre after a 10-year partnership agreement with the Automobile Association of the Northern Territory, but AANT has declined to disclose how much it paid for the naming rights.
Anindilyakwa Land Council chair Cherelle Wurrawilya will not say why chief executive officer Matthew Bonson suddenly left the role less than three months after being appointed to run the troubled organisation, which was raided by the National Anti-Crime Commission last year.
Costings for two different versions of the new Darwin Council civic centre were given to council but never made public in the months before it put out an expression of interest for the building, that led to a partnership with developer DCOH to build the controversial 21-storey hybrid civic centre-private office tower.
A vital Territory aquifer is drying at an accelerating rate and taking longer to recover from Dry seasons, a new study by Griffith University has found, raising concerns about the impact fracking operations in the Beetaloo Basin will have on the water source and additional extraction.
Three males were arrested and one remains on the loose after the group allegedly stole tools and spray cans from a Tennant Creek business before spraying graffiti on buildings down Paterson Street, using the tools to break into a licenced premise and stealing 134 litres of alcohol, NT Police said.
The cost of Darwin’s long-delayed ship lift has surged to at least $820 million, a parliamentary committee has found, which will see taxpayers cover the costs for Paspaley Pearls Group to operate, as per an agreement signed in 2021.
Lawyers who indicate they represent Darwin Council, Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis, and council staff have threatened to sue Cyclone Tracy survivor Antony Bullock for defamation if he publishes a book about his investigation into the selection of a sculpture commemorating the cyclone’s 50th anniversary.
NT WorkSafe has appointed Grant Hastie as its new executive director, effective August 25, following a national recruitment process.
Two people were killed in a single vehicle rollover on the Stuart Highway north of Tennant Creek on Friday, NT Police said.
More than 80 per cent of NT Police officers who took part in a ballot on a new pay offer have voted against the deal, which included a three per cent wage increase, the NT Police Association has said, amid threats from the government that rejecting the deal could lead to cuts to housing entitlements along with generous personal leave provisions.
The Mandorah ferry terminal and associated works will open to the public later this month with a total build cost of $85 million, the Finocchiaro Government has said, which is $39 million more than estimated in 2017, and comes more than six years after the former Labor government declared it a priority project.
