Directors who were at the Northern Aboriginal Australian Justice Agency when the organisation’s chief executive officer was unlawfully sacked have now left the board, with the size of the board cut in half and the constitution changed at its recent annual general meeting, following a threat by the NT Attorney-General to remove funding if the directors did not resign.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy flew to Singapore on holidays Thursday afternoon, after spending just a few hours in crime-stricken Alice Springs, a police source has said, while NT Police confirmed he was on “scheduled leave”, which came ahead of the Chief Minister also leaving town early.
Two men are in Katherine Hospital after being stabbed during a Thursday night home invasion, with one of the men suffering “stab wounds to his chest”, NT Police said.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced a “Circuit Breaker Program” for Alice Springs in the wake of a surge of violent crimes in the troubled town that it says will address the “root causes” of crime, but the program as described is exactly what Labor announced in April.
Close to 90 per cent of St John Ambulance paramedics and patient transport officers who responded to a United Workers Union survey said they do not have confidence in the organisation’s executive, while 83 per cent they still have concerns about clinical procedures and patient safety, following a damning government review.
Environmental group Lock the Gate Alliance says it is seeking a Federal Court injunction to halt Tamboran Resource’s fracking operations in the Beetaloo Basin, arguing it needs to be assessed under federal environment laws concerning its water use, before proceeding.
Another planned arrest of an alleged domestic violence perpetrator in a remote community has gone wrong for police, this time with two officers having a large cup of a boiling liquid thrown on them, that required medical assistance, NT Police said.
A suspected member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club had his Darwin accommodation raided by police following allegations he assaulted and threatened to kill his partner, NT Police said, resulting in charges for the alleged assault, drugs and perverting the course of justice.
Video of a stolen ute in a remote community shows a different story to the one portrayed by police media in late October after a massive pursuit of another stolen ute involved up to 10 police vehicles – including the Territory Response Group – ending in what police described at the time as a “seamless coordination across multiple police teams and communities”, but which was a “volatile” and “dangerous” situation that put the public at risk.
Police are looking for a man who allegedly raped a woman in Lajamanu on Monday, NT Police said.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has committed to taking no action against five senior police officers who lied to the court about their involvement in the racist TRG awards, despite evidence the joint investigation by the ICAC and NT Police executive failed to properly review the officers’ criminal conduct.
There is no evidence to support St John Ambulance chief executive Andrew Tombs’ claim the organisation has addressed the urgent recommendations made in a damning report into patient treatment, that found multiple failures and poor decisions resulted in harm to patients and significant risk to staff, the United Workers Union has said.
