A group of males “attempting to start” a Toyota Landcruiser in the staff car park at the Darwin Airport on Wednesday evening kicked off a long night of stolen vehicle action for NT Police, that saw a police vehicle rammed and projectiles thrown at officers.
The redeveloped land around the controversial Cyclone Tracy memorial at Bundilla Beach cannot be opened to the public because the council is waiting for a toilet to arrive from Sydney, which could take another two months, Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis said, while warning the public to use the toilet properly when it arrives.
EXCLUSIVE: The NT’s Director of Public Prosecutions created new jobs in his office that were ultimately filled by his son and daughter-in-law, but Lloyd Babb says he was not involved in recruitment for the positions that weren’t publicly advertised and claims he declared a conflict of interest upon learning that his family members just happened to apply for the mysterious jobs.
A decision on whether to approve the 21-storey Darwin Council civic and commercial office tower hybrid development has been deferred by the Development Consent Authority, with the agency asking the proponents to explain how the building fits in to the historic precinct in which it would sit and how expanses of blank walls and reflective glare would be minimised.
The CLP Government knew since last September that private maternity services were shutting down in Darwin, but did nothing to warn the public or prepare frontline clinical staff, an independent MLA says, leaving everyone “blindsided” by the move.
The CLP Government has announced the latest round of a grant program which provides up to $3 million to co-fund projects that improve exploration efforts, assist in discovering and developing resources, and add to “geoscientific knowledge gaps”, across the Territory.
A tourist from the United States had her purse, passport, and bank cards stolen while she was in Alice Springs Hospital on Friday, NT Police said.
Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman was given a pay rise in the same year the university reduced its profitability by close to $40 million despite increasing revenue, CDU financial documents show.
A 17-year-old on bail who allegedly stabbed his 16-year-old partner repeatedly in the legs and back in a remote community has been arrested and charged, NT Police said, while also calling for the public’s help with information about an unrelated indecent assault of multiple people in Darwin’s party district over the weekend.
An 18-year-old male was charged with drug and firearm-related offences by the NT Police on Friday, after a raid of his Katherine home yielded illegal drugs, firearms, ammunition and fireworks.
NT Corrections officers have delivered a resounding no-confidence vote in Commissioner Matthew Varley over moves to bring in private guards to deal with pressures in the corrections system, but the Minister has hit back at the union, saying the government will not be “strong-armed” into sacking Mr Varley, which comes amid resurfaced comments that show the CLP did not support outsourcing corrections duties while in opposition.
EXCLUSIVE: The publicly-funded Darwin Waterfront Corporation hired board member Andrew Kirkman’s wife for a key role that was not advertised late last year and that came with an undisclosed hefty pay packet, the NT Independent can reveal, raising questions about undeclared conflicts of interest at the corporation and a cosy culture of political appointments and nepotism.
