The Darwin Basketball Association was forced to adjourn its annual general meeting this week because it could not provide audited financial statements for both it and the Darwin Salties NBL1 side for two years, which the chairman claimed was because its bookkeeper was sick, while the government declined to explain why $400,000 of taxpayer money was given to an organisation before seeing audited financial records.
A female of an unspecified age was treated at Royal Darwin Hospital after bleeding heavily from being stabbed in the foot, leg, and lower back in a Darwin home, while her alleged attacker has been charged, NT Police said.
A man was treated in Alice Springs Hospital for head and chest injuries after being kicked and punched and assaulted with a blunt weapon, while trying to stop his attacker from damaging his car, NT Police said.
NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy was made aware of racist awards handed out within the Territory Response Group at least six months before they were aired publicly, a coronial inquest has heard, contradicting Mr Murphy’s claims in February that he was “not aware of the TRG awards”.
NT Police have welcomed four new members to its elite Search and Rescue Squad after completing their training and evaluation, which follows the unit being plagued with a lack of personnel that meant it could not undertake some diving operations in late 2021.
A man was killed in a two vehicle collision on the Stuart Highway near Pine Creek on Sunday afternoon, NT Police said.
Six people were arrested early Sunday morning in connection to an alleged vehicle theft ring, NT Police said, after “several” stolen vehicles were driven dangerously in the northern suburbs and Palmerston, while more stolen vehicles were located and recovered after tyre spikes were deployed near Adelaide River.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler says Labor will not reimburse taxpayers for the public money it used to fly former chief minister Michael Gunner to remote communities in marginal electorates on polling days in the lead up to the 2020 election because it was all too “ambiguous” and refused to condemn the conduct that was the focus of a three-year ICAC investigation.
More racist awards and offensive images of Aboriginal people created and distributed by NT Police officers have been uncovered as part of the joint investigation into widespread racism in the TRG, with the new material labelled by the ICAC as “so offensive that I do not consider it in the public interest [to] be circulated”.
Anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches “refuses to call out misconduct, mismanagement and corruption”, an independent MLA says, despite having evidence that Territory Labor and Michael Gunner used public funds for party political purposes at the 2020 election, calling for an inquiry into the Office of the ICAC’s conduct.
The Lawler Government has said a review into St John Ambulance will be made public and was not ordered because of any failings by the organisation, but the union representing paramedics said there are serious issues with the ambulance service that have been covered-up and ignored.
The full bench of the Fair Work Commission has thrown out an appeal by the Northern Territory Government contesting a decision that it had underpaid firefighters by removing overtime hours, with the full bench noting the government changed its argument from what was contained in its notice of appeal when it came to oral arguments in the hearing.
