The Finocchiaro CLP Government has moved to withdraw government housing for Darwin police officers as part of its latest contract negotiations, the NT Police Association has said, labelling it a “slap in the face to every police officer” and a broken election commitment.
The 18-year-old man charged with the murder of Nightcliff Friendly Grocer owner Linford Feick appeared in court Monday, where it was discovered his age and legal name were not properly recorded, resulting in previous charges connected to other alleged offences believed to be youth matters now changed to adult matters.
Darwin Council will not say if developer DCOH will pay the estimated $2.8 million car parking shortfall levy for its share of car parking at the new 21-storey civic centre-office tower, which the council itself is partly financing with the same car parking shortfall levy that other developers have been required to pay.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has ordered Parliament be recalled next week so she can introduce legislation aimed at strengthening the Bail Act following the stabbing death of a Nightcliff supermarket owner, which comes seven months after she was warned her government’s so-called ‘Declan’s Law’ would not keep the community safe.
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has announced she will hand down the findings of her more than two-years-long inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu on June 10.
Two people were killed in a two vehicle collision on the Stuart Highway near Lake Bennett overnight, NT Police said.
Santos is expected to commence production at its Barossa offshore gas field off the NT coast later this year, following final federal approval being granted this week.
An elderly Katherine woman used a shovel to stop four people breaking into her house through a window they had smashed, NT Police said.
Tourism Minister and Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby has rejected calls for a public inquiry into the possible misuse of public resources at the Darwin Waterfront Corporation involving the Chief Minister’s husband and other senior public servants, stating she “is the Minister” and has received a secret internal “briefing” that exonerated everyone of any wrongdoing. However, the briefing was completed before revelations the Chief Minister’s husband benefitted from questionable hiring practices.
The Coalition has pledged to lower airfare prices in the NT by lifting cabotage restrictions that prevent foreign airlines from carrying passengers on domestic flights in Darwin, but has not confirmed any airline willing to do that and may find it difficult to attract any, an aviation expert said.
A series of high-visibility operations during the long Easter weekend by NT Police to enhance road safety across the region uncovered more than 60 people testing positive to either alcohol or drugs in their system while driving, with hundreds of others caught speeding and not wearing seat belts.
NT Health has issued a warning to Territorians about the use of nitazenes, a dangerous synthetic opioid recently found in the Territory, which is potentially up to 10 times more potent than fentanyl.
