The Lawler Government’s confusing decision to move the Territory Day public fireworks display from its home at Mindil Beach to the Darwin Waterfront this year is no closer to being explained, after it was revealed at Estimates that no complaints about the festivities were ever raised by traditional owners and that a permit through the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority was never required.
The Territory’s acting anti-corruption commissioner says she disclosed a conflict of interest relating to the recently published major ICAC investigation into Territory Labor’s election rorts at the last election, which leaves the status of the second part of the report in limbo, while pledging to provide leadership in the office after a “tumultuous” two weeks for staff.
The Lawler Labor Government secretly gave taxpayer money to keep the Darwin Salties basketball team afloat despite seemingly never seeing audited financial statements, claiming the details are commercial in confidence, while financial documents show the club lost more than $500,000 in its first two years of operation after receiving roughly $1 million combined from two Territory basketball organisations and the NT Government.
A Wadeye man has been charged after another man was stabbed in the back in the remote community, NT Police said.
A teenager was the victim of a pushbike jacking in Alice Springs when a group threatened him with an unspecified edged weapon, NT Police said.
Territory Day fireworks celebrations will be moved from Mindil Beach, where the display has been held for the last 20 years, to the Waterfront for this year’s celebrations, Northern Territory Major Events has declared, but a proper explanation has still not been offered.
Three female youths allegedly robbed a service station in Eaton, NT Police said.
A man has been charged after allegedly stabbing a woman in the neck in a Moil street, NT Police said.
UPDATED: ICAC Inspector Bruce McClintock has cleared anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches of misconduct after he failed to disclose a domestic violence allegation and offered to pay his wife $20,000 to drop a DVO out of fear it would be made public, but Mr McClintock’s investigation involved only a single text message to the victim of the alleged domestic violence.
An incident in which a helicopter’s rotor blades hit a rock ledge, leaving the severely damaged aircraft stranded near Kakadu National Park last week, is being investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
A deadly head-on collision on the Arnhem Highway over the weekend has left one person dead and another reportedly in hospital, NT Police said.
Twenty-one new murals now adorn Darwin walls across the city after the recently concluded 2024 Darwin Street Art Festival, providing the city a new makeover.
