The Parramatta Eels will play a last game in Darwin next season, and while neither the club nor the Finocchiaro Government has explained why the deal between the two will end, NT Major Events has said it is looking for a new NRL team to play from 2026.
Former deputy chief minister Nicole Manison has announced she is the new vice-president of Tamboran Resources, a gas company her Labor government awarded a potential billion dollar government gas supply contract to earlier this year that it refused to divulge the cost of.
A man was assaulted and had his electric scooter stolen in the Darwin CBD on Sunday, NT Police said.
Topline Steel Fabrications and two of its senior managers have been charged over a contractor being crushed by a bundle of steel weighing over 1.2 tonnes while his truck was being loaded, NT Work Safe has said.
US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Energy, Chris Wright, is also chief executive of a company that has a stake in Beetaloo Basin fracker Tamboran Resources.
Golden snapper around Darwin remain overfished, with around one fifth of their original population left, and with fishing mortality rates estimated to be more than double the rate considered sustainable, which will prevent stocks from recovering, the Golden Snapper Stock Assessment report says.
Japan will deploy troops to the Top End in collaboration with the US Marines it was announced on Sunday, following trilateral discussions in Darwin with the Australian Defence Minister.
An 83-year-old resident was confronted in his Katherine house by three males who allegedly tried to break in while armed with blunt and edged weapons last Tuesday, and who are still on the run, NT Police said.
Under fire CDU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman’s daughter was hired this month by his direct subordinate for a role at the university, amid deep financial losses and expected sackings.
The Finocchiaro Government has named former INPEX NT general manager Stuart Knowles as the interim Territory Coordinator, on the same day it publicly released its proposed legislation that would give the position and the Chief Minister sweeping powers to exempt certain projects from environmental and other regulatory processes.
Empire Energy’s pilot project to frack gas in the Beetaloo Basin has been given environmental approval, the company has said, while an environmental group estimated the approval would allow the company to use 410 million litres of water, the equivalent of 164 Olympic swimming pools and produce 72 pools worth of fracking wastewater over the life of the project.
Solar installation company Mpriza Group Pty Ltd and its manager, Nicholas Zikos, have been fined after pleading guilty in Darwin Local Court to multiple work health and safety breaches, some of which were brought after the company “inadvertently” sent evidence of its own wrongdoing to NT WorkSafe.
