A Freedom of Information application seeking a departmental brief provided to former environment minister Kate Worden last year that recommended prosecution of Empire Energy was rejected on legal privilege grounds, a government letter shows, while the department appears to have attempted to cover up one of the three alleged offences referred to in the document.
The Health Department’s chief executive says the department will “really carefully” manage the deal it intends to sign with a company to run the closed hyperbaric chamber unit at Royal Darwin Hospital, after it was revealed that company’s sole director is the wife of the director of a company that previously held the same contract and went into administration, with its contract terminated by the NT Government.
A man was tasered while being arrested after allegedly ramming a vehicle into the front of a house in Gray on Saturday, also hitting two of the occupants who were in the front yard, NT Police said.
Three board members of Legal Aid NT have resigned following Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby’s appointment of Catherine Voumard as the organisation’s new director, which contradicted an independent selection panel’s recommendation, an internal email shows.
The nearly year-long investigation into allegations of improper conduct by anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches involving female employees in the workplace has finally been completed and referred to ICAC Inspector Bruce McClintock, but the findings of the report will not be released publicly yet, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said.
A woman has a serious eye injury after a brick was thrown through a side window of a vehicle she was a passenger in that was driving near the entrance to the Bagot community in Ludmilla, NT Police said.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro will not say if she recommended the Attorney-General directly appoint Catherine Voumard as director of Legal Aid NT, a decision that undermined the recommendations of an independent panel struck to hire for the role, which Ms Voumard was not interviewed for.
The CLP government has revealed the new Northern Suburbs Youth Hub will be located at the Leanyer Waterpark Recreation Precinct, rather than at the previous site of the old Casuarina Fire Station on Rowling St, which had been selected by the former Labor government two years ago.
A Darwin man is in hospital after shooting himself in the foot with a firearm he made, leading police to seize other ‘privately manufactured’ weapons and explosive detonation devices from his Moil home over the weekend.
The Finocchiaro Government has announced annual funding of $16 million to support ongoing operations of the new mental health unit currently under construction at Royal Darwin Hospital, as part of next week’s Budget.
A Corrections officer is in Royal Darwin Hospital after being assaulted in Holtze prison on Tuesday.
Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby has publicly announced she directly appointed Catherine Voumard as the new director of Legal Aid NT despite an independent selection panel not interviewing her for the role and recommending someone with management experience, while a high-level source in the organisation said the unilateral decision has upset the board and showed a lack of knowledge on the part of the Minister.
