The Finocchiaro Government has axed a $19 million police station that was to be built at Peppimenarti because it claimed the residents did not want it and will instead build one in Maningrida, but the head of the local Aboriginal corporation said the residents were not consulted and simply objected to the proposed site of the complex in the middle of ceremonial grounds and wanted to use some of the money to build new houses so people did not have to continue living in tents.
NT Police divers have recovered the body of a 57-year-old man who went missing after entering a plunge pool at Edith Falls north of Katherine around 3pm on Tuesday.
A large fight erupted in the Casuarina Centrelink offices on Monday afternoon, NT Police said, which witnesses said was so bad children and staff were forced to hide in a saferoom, with at least one man in his 20s suffering “blunt force injuries to his head”.
An independent investigation that found a former NT Supreme Court judge sexually harassed a former female associate, including suggesting they “share a bed”, was rejected by the NT Government, which moved to get the Anti-Discrimination Commission to drop the matter, a legal firm representing the associate said.
A 22-year-old man has had his charge upgraded to murder for allegedly stabbing a man in the chest in the Alice Springs city centre in May, NT Police said.
The Northern Territory will host the largest Exercise Talisman Sabre from Sunday July 13 to August 4, with over 30,000 military personnel from 19 nations participating in war games throughout the region.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has found former NT Police constable Zach Rolfe “was racist and worked in and benefitted from an organisation with the hallmarks of institutional racism”, which she said may have contributed to the “avoidable” shooting death of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker.
The Health Department and the Health Minister will not comment on allegations a health practitioner under investigation by NT Police for alleged multiple rapes has been allowed to return to work, while police have refused to confirm the investigation and the industry regulator has claimed it can’t comment on whether a complaint has been filed against the practitioner.
The Health Department is allowing a health practitioner under investigation by NT Police for alleged multiple rapes to return to work, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has said, raising safety concerns for staff.
NT Police are investigating a break-in at a government armoury in Katherine, where a quantity of ammunition was allegedly stolen from the facility located in an industrial area in Katherine East.
A woman in a remote community who feared for her life after her partner hit her vehicle with a bullet from a high-powered rifle was not helped by police for 14 hours because the Immediate Response Team had been disbanded after the shooting death of Kumanajayi Walker, while senior police thought local officers would “aggravate the situation”, the former officer in charge of the unit said in a previously suppressed statement to the Coroner.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government will crack down on young offenders by scrapping eligibility for youth diversion for 13 additional offences – including break-ins – that it claims will “ensure serious young offenders face real consequences”, but which has been labelled by critics as another ineffective move that won’t reduce or prevent crime and will not end the cycle of reoffending.
