NT Independent

Labor staffer charged taxpayers $4,400 for trip to Nhulunbuy; CLP keeping its staffers’ travel costs hidden

A Labor adviser charged taxpayers $4,400 for a one-night trip to Nhulunbuy for vague “various stakeholder meetings”, including a mysterious $2,900 charge listed under “other” expenses, according to newly released internal travel records, while the CLP has inexplicably not disclosed its staffers’ travel costs.

Hospital assault kept secret by police media

Three men carrying a machete and a nulla-nulla assaulted a patient inside Tennant Creek Hospital on the same night another man was stabbed to death in the town as part of ongoing fighting, details of which were kept hidden from the public by NT Police.

Woman jolted awake while being stabbed at Palmerston house: Police

A 23-year-old woman is in hospital after being stabbed in the head and chest while she slept at a Zuccoli residence around 3:35am, NT Police said.

CLP extends alcohol bans in remote communities and town camps

The Finocchiaro CLP Government will extend alcohol prohibitions in outstations, Aboriginal communities and town camps beyond their January expiry date that were first introduced as an emergency measure by the Fyles Labor government after the controversial decision to allow alcohol back into communities in 2022.

The Estimates Show is another embarrassment for Labor and the CLP

EDITORIAL: The Estimates Show is not currently functioning in the public’s interest and needs to be shut down and re-formatted or the main players possibly re-cast to get it back on track.

Inpex reaches deal with unions after weeks of strike action at Ichthys facility

An in-principle deal between gas giant Inpex and the union representing striking workers has been struck that will see operations at the company’s sites return to normal, with a formal vote to accept the deal scheduled soon.

Supercars and monster trucks back in town with packed slate of events

Top End revheads will be left spinning this week as more Supercars events and activations have been scheduled over the next few days around Darwin and Palmerston.

Boy indecently assaulted by 18-year-old in Alice Springs supermarket: Police

An 18-year-old male has been arrested after police allege he indecently assaulted “a boy aged between 12 and 16” who was not known to him at a supermarket in the Alice Springs CBD Wednesday afternoon.

Emergency test alert messages to set mobile phones abuzz in Tennant Creek Thursday morning

The new national warning system, ‘AusAlert’, will be tested in Tennant Creek on Thursday, June 18, that will see residents’ mobile phones “vibrate and play a siren-like warning” for 10 seconds around 10am, the government said.

Chief Minister misled Parliament about senior police response to major integrity failures

EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has refused to explain why she misled Estimates hearings about what action the NT Police executive leadership team has taken to address the serious integrity failures identified in the Justice Alan Blow report into senior police promotion and recruitment processes.