In case you’ve been hiding under your bed because of the borders opening, here is some NT news worth catching and all in just a two minute read: borders open and fines for breaking mandatory quarantine increase to $5,000; majority of Gunner Government’s ‘fast track’ projects actually ‘slow tracked’; the NT’s second most powerful public servant’s taxpayer funded trips to the US and in Hawaii revealed; and Tennant Creek’s only grocery store destroyed by fire.
Fines for COVIDIOTS increased to $5000 as the rest of the country floods into the NT
Anyone breaching mandatory quarantine in the NT should be prepared to pay an expanded infringement penalty of more than five times the previous amount as the Territory borders reopen today, the Gunner Government announced Friday morning.
Northern Territory Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker announced on Friday that beginning today, the noncompliance infringement penalty for an individual is now $5,056, up from $1,106.
Meanwhile, business operators who fail to implement the COVID-19 safety management plan such as not providing signage for physical distancing and failing to supply hand sanitiser to its patrons will be slapped with a $25,280 penalty, up from $5,530.
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Majority of Gunner Government’s ‘fast track’ job creating projects facing delays
The Gunner Government’s early 2019 pledge to “fast track” five construction projects valued at $126 million to create jobs and boost the economy has seen the majority of projects delayed, the NT Independent can reveal.
The government announced Thursday that construction works are progressing on upgrades to Litchfield National Park, but an NT Independent analysis of the five projects the government listed as being “fast tracked” in February 2019 found that three have been delayed despite the government insisting they were on the “fast track”.
Those three projects are the Palmerston Fire Station, the Mandorrah Jetty and the Kilgariff Stage Two land development project. Litchfield and Zuccoli are the two projects that have had some movement.
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Senior NT public servant’s taxpayer funded trip to Disney World revealed
The Territory’s second-most powerful public servant took a taxpayer funded excursion to Disney World while on a mysterious trip to the United States late last year that he now claims will be reimbursed to taxpayers, the NT Independent can reveal.
Department of Chief Minister deputy chief executive Andy Cowan charged taxpayers $29,000 for the trip to the US last November that included stops in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC, as well as a solo jaunt to Epcot Centre in Orlando, Florida – a Disney theme park known as the “Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow” that offers exciting rides “around the globe, under the sea and into outer space”, and the chance to meet Disney characters.
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Andy Cowan’s Hawaiian adventure at taxpayers’ expense exposed
The high-flying senior NT bureaucrat who charged taxpayers for a trip to Disney World late last year also charged Territorians $12,500 for a week-long trip to Hawaii earlier this year to attend a three-day conference, the NT Independent can reveal.
Andy Cowan, the deputy chief executive of the Department of Chief Minister, flew to a flash resort in Honolulu in January at taxpayer expense for the Pacific Telecommunication Council’s (PTC) annual conference, travel records show.
A breakdown of how the $12,500 was spent on the Hawaii junket was not provided, but it’s understood taxpayers paid for Mr Cowan’s accommodation for five nights at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki Beach Resort, that offers “one of the best luaus on the island” as well as hula and lei-making lessons and the “widest stretch of beach in Waikiki”.
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https://ntindependent.com.au/andy-cowans-hawaiian-adventure-at-taxpayers-expense-exposed/
Fire destroys Tennant Creek’s only grocery store, may have been lit
Tennant Creek’s only grocery store, Tennant Creek IGA, has been ravaged by a massive fire Sunday evening that claimed nearly a million dollars worth of grocery stock, the NT Fire and Rescue Service said.
Local fire crews were alerted to a fire at the back of the supermarket on Patterson Street at around 7:25pm Sunday night.
NT’s Fire and Rescue have not released a cause of the fire but a source told the NT Independent it appears as though the fire was intentionally lit.
The initial investigation suggested the fire spread from bins and pallets burning at the rear of the building.
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https://ntindependent.com.au/fire-destroys-tennant-creeks-only-grocery-store-may-have-been-set/
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