Police caught six drug drivers but no drink drivers and also seized unspecified amounts of cannabis, methamphetamine, MDMA, ketamine, steroids, kava, and alcohol, along with a number of gold bars during a remote road safety operation, NT Police said.
Nearly 40 Kiwi police officers have left their jobs to move to the Northern Territory this year following an international recruitment drive, New Zealand media reported, with the pay offers and perks so generous the New Zealand police admitted it “can’t compete”.
Acting Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Greg Shanahan has ordered changes to the way public servants file corruption reports to his office, but has refused to say if the new directions are the result of referrals dropping substantially since he took the helm last December.
The CLP is moving ahead with its controversial plan to allow Territorians to purchase pepper spray by setting up its community oversight body to oversee the trial that includes victims of crime, a public servant who worked for a former CLP chief minister, and local business people, but nobody with a legal background, which follows the Queensland LNP Government recently rejecting the OC spray idea as dangerous to the public due to “potential misuse and unintended harm”.
An NT Police officer has been placed on leave with pay after being charged with using false documents, forgery and obtaining financial advantage by deception, the NT Police said.
A 30-year-old man was chased by police and arrested in Darwin on Saturday night after he allegedly stabbed another man, which was one of multiple arrests for NT Police over the weekend throughout the Territory, including a police pursuit of a stolen vehicle that rammed a cop car.
Darwin mayoral candidate Sam Weston is standing behind an unproven sexual assault allegation he made against a former RSL committee member, despite the police having found no victim or evidence of wrongdoing and closing the case last year, while the subject of the allegation is out of pocket thousands of dollars in legal fees.
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.
