Bypass works on the long-delayed and over-budget Tiger Brennan overpass project that closed access to a gate at the Hidden Valley motor sports complex could mean the popular V8 Supercars event is cancelled next year, the new Minister for Logistics and Infrastructure has revealed, stating the department is currently “scrambling” to find a solution that would allow emergency vehicles to enter the facility.
Parks Australia has been slapped with a $200,000 fine after the Commonwealth agency pleaded guilty to damaging a sacred site at Gunlom Falls during the construction of a pathway in 2019, the largest fine on record under sacred sites laws.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro’s hiring of a liquor industry lobbyist as her chief of staff has been raised during debate in Parliament about new alcohol laws, with Greens MLA Kat McNamara suggesting the government’s plan to scrap the minimum alcohol unit price would benefit the liquor industry and not Territorians.
The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education used unreliable student records to claim government funding and failed to comply with Australian accounting standards, a new Auditor-General’s report has found, which follows other serious operational and financial problems at the institute that led the Auditor General being unable to sign off on its finances for two years.
The CLP Government will provide Territorians with a look behind the books at what it calls a “grim” economic outlook caused by years of “financial chaos” next week at a special event with the NT’s Under Treasurer.
Any person found guilty of spitting at any worker will be subject to a mandatory three-month jail sentence, as part of the CLP’s anti-crime agenda to be debated in Parliament this week, that has been labelled a “recipe for injustice” by the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Large “disturbances” in the remote community of Jilkminggan on Monday saw a woman assaulted by up to six unknown offenders and a man tasered by police after he allegedly threatened officers with a claw hammer, NT Police said.
The old Berrimah jail will hold adult prisoners again, while inmates from the newly refurbished Alice Springs youth jail will be moved to the yet-to-be opened Darwin facility, making it the Territory’s sole permanent youth jail, under an un-costed plan that the Finocchiaro Government said will add about 250 corrections beds across the NT by March.
The Northern Land Council was raided by National Anti-Corruption Commission earlier this week, one of two Territory land councils to be raided by the federal watchdog across three days.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said she will not be sacking public servants, when asked by the Opposition about how she was going to fund election promises with the $11 billion debt Labor created, and while the bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility passed Parliament, the government said it had not yet seen a report evaluating the impact of raising the age of criminal responsibility.
Five males allegedly smashed the passenger window of a vehicle parked at McDonald’s in Katherine and threatened those inside with an “edged” weapon, NT Police said.
The eight assistant ministers announced for the CLP Government will not be paid extra for their assistant ministerial work, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said.
