The “extra” $1 million Legal Aid NT was provided by the Finocchiaro Government will not stop it cutting criminal legal services as planned, the group has indicated, while producing a handbook explaining to people representing themselves how to ask a judge to adjourn their matter.
Youth inmates are today being moved out of the current Don Dale facility and into the new Holtze Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, the Corrections Commissioner said, to make way for 50 low-security adult male prisoners who will take over their space in the old Berrimah prison by next month.
A 49-year-old woman who was struck by a bicycle in the northern suburbs last week has died in hospital as a result of serious injuries sustained in the collision, NT Police said.
The Northern Land Council has appointed Yuseph Deen as its new Chief Executive Officer, who previously served as CEO of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.
A memorandum of understanding between the CLP Government and Alice Springs Town Council will see $27 million worth of infrastructure projects flow to the town, the Chief Minister said.
An audit of the finances of the Darwin Salties, the Darwin Basketball Association, and Basketball Northern Territory is being conducted by KPMG under the direction of Basketball Australia with input from the Northern Territory Government, following an ongoing financial crisis in the sport, with a source telling the NT Independent the organisations lost about $1.6 million combined over the last two years.
An adventure tour company owned by Matt and Kaia Wright that crashed an airboat last year ejecting all 13 passengers onboard and injuring eight, including one passenger who suffered a fractured skull, has been charged with various offences by NT WorkSafe, along with its directors.
The NT Government has signed an agreement with SeaLink to continue to run passenger ferry services between Darwin, Mandorah, and the Tiwi Islands for the next five years at a cost of $25.7 million – a cost the government did not disclose.
The “extensive” manhunt for two young offenders who escaped the Alice Springs youth prison on Tuesday has ended after the pair turned themselves in to police with the support of their families on Wednesday night, the Corrections Commissioner said.
A tender to paint CLP Minister Marie-Clare Boothby’s electorate office and “move furniture” was put out to the market at a cost of between $500,000 and $1 million, government records show, which the Minister claims she shut down over the huge price tag, but the tender was active for at least a week before being removed, the NT Independent can reveal.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has taken credit for a 0.4 per cent increase in retail spending in the NT for the month of September, issuing a statement to suggest their August election victory “renewed confidence” in the economy and somehow led to Territorians spending more money for one month.
The Finocchiaro Government has pledged an “extra” $1 million in funding for Legal Aid NT, a day after a homeless man charged with aggravated robbery was reportedly granted bail due to confusion around his trial following Legal Aid cutting his defence funding.
