An employee of a Palmerston business has been charged with gross indecency for an alleged assault of a customer, NT Police said.
REPORT REVEALED: St John Ambulance review finds patients were harmed, fails to investigate deaths
EXCLUSIVE: A damning review into St John Ambulance NT’s treatment of patients has found multiple failures and poor decisions resulted in harm to patients and significant risk to staff, with a near complete breakdown in trust between hospital emergency department staff and the Territory’s ambulance service provider, the NT Independent can reveal.
No charges laid against DHA despite land clearing breach at Lee Point development
Environmental groups and traditional owners are urging Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to take legal action against Defence Housing Australia for alleged violations of federal environmental laws after NT authorities ended their investigation into alleged unlawful land clearing at Lee Point.
‘National shame’: Coroner hands down 35 recommendations to improve NT’s Domestic Violence response
Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has handed down 35 recommendations for the NT Government and police to improve their response to the growing epidemic of domestic violence, calling on the government to properly fund services that will prevent the deaths of women and children.
Brothers arrested for fighting in the street, one attacked other with ‘edged weapon’: police
Two brothers have been arrested for fighting in the street in Alice Springs today, with one allegedly “assaulting” the other with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.
Four properties broken into, vehicle stolen overnight in Alice Springs; aggravated robbery in Katherine
NT Police are investigating after four Alice Springs properties were broken into overnight and are also looking for information relating to a stolen car allegedly used to target a taxi.
Council threatens Cyclone Tracy memorial protestors with fines, minister says VIP event doesn’t pass the ‘pub test’
Darwin Council has threatened to take action against Cyclone Tracy survivors who protest the VIP-only unveiling of the controversial 50th anniversary memorial unless they get public liability insurance, a provision the council gives contradictory advice to the public about on its website, while NT Treasurer Bill Yan said the event needs to be opened to the public and labelled the monument debacle “a dog’s breakfast”.
Bowman says CDU in ‘financial ruins’ with staffing ‘bloodbath’ on the cards, then skips town for early Christmas holidays
CDU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman has told staff to expect sackings in the near future while the university’s “finances lie in ruins”, admitting it cannot afford to continue the way it is, then informing everyone in his “weekly musings” email that he is taking early and extended Christmas leave as of next week.
Elderly woman ‘bumped’ before handbag stolen in Alice Springs car park
An 85-year-old woman was first “bumped” by a member of a group of four adults, and then had her handbag stolen by the same person, in an Alice Springs car park on Friday, NT Police said.
No plans to put Darwin Esplanade on heritage list: CLP
The CLP Government has ruled out placing the Darwin Esplanade back on the heritage list, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned the previous government’s provisional heritage listing for the site.
‘They couldn’t run a raffle and should all be resigning’: Barrister calls for NAAJA board’s resignation
Prominent Darwin silk John Lawrence has condemned the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency board’s years of mismanagement and called for their resignations, following an extraordinary public apology to chief executive officer Priscilla Atkins after the Federal Court found the board unfairly sacked her.
Batchelor Institute won’t say how it dealt with conflicts over chair’s honorary doctorate
The Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education will not say how its council members dealt with potential conflicts of interest when voting to confer an honorary doctorate on their own chair, with the Office of the ICAC last year finding in its review of the organisation that it had no policy to deal with personal or social conflicts of interest.