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The NT Independent Newspaper. Darwin Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis has once again publicly denied the Cyclone Tracy 50th anniversary monument – which the Federal Government provided $600,000 to create – is actually a monument or a memorial for one of Australia’s worst natural disasters, adding that a secret VIP event the council organised to …
News - NT Independent
by Independent Staff | Nov 11, 2024 | Cops, News, Subscriber. A 36-year-old woman is facing perverting the course of justice charges for her alleged involvement in helping a 20-year-old offender who reportedly cut off his ankle monitoring device last week evade police, with The Australian reporting the woman is a NAAJA employee who was in a ...
NT Politics - NT Independent
A tender to paint CLP Minister Marie-Clare Boothby’s electorate office and “move furniture” was put out to the market at a cost of between $500,000 and $1 million, government records show, which the Minister claims she shut down over the huge price tag, but the tender was active for at least a week before being removed, the NT Independent can reveal.
2024 Brolga Tourism Awards celebrate NT’s tourism industry
21 hours ago · The 2024 Northern Territory Brolga Tourism Awards celebrated 27 winners from local businesses, organisations, and individuals, at a ceremony in Alice Springs, with a record 94 nominations from across the Territory, the highest in five years, the government said, which comes amid troubling times for the industry.
NT Business News – November 12
21 hours ago · The latest business highlights include a new investment boost to enhance mining prospects of Tennant Creek, and Dollars and Sense opening their fifth NT discount store. Also making resource news is Kingsland to define an indicated resource for Leliyn in the NT, CLP approves revival of Pine Creek gold mine, and Bubalus set to secure land access for Nolans East.
NT Government’s Middle Arm business case rejected by …
20 hours ago · Infrastructure Australia rejected the Northern Territory Government's business case for the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show, while the NT Environmental Protection Agency has extended its deadline by two years for the government to submit an environment impact statement, pushing the project start date back to at least 2026.
What happened? The NT Independent’s biggest stories from July …
Jan 14, 2023 · Taxpayers to pick up NT hospitality industry’s $200k UK trip to recruit bar staff. A group of Darwin publicans and government officials will fly to the UK in February to recruit a hundred or so bartenders, chefs and wait staff from British pubs, the Fyles Government has announced, at a cost to taxpayers of $200,000. READ the full story here.
COVID-19 | NT Independent
The NT Government has advised Territorians to be vigilant as Covid-19 cases driven by the BA4 and BA5 Omicron variants spiked with 353 cases recorded overnight, placing active cases at 1,977 of which 19 are in hospital.
NT Independent named as Walkey Awards finalist again
Oct 11, 2024 · NT Independent editor Christopher Walsh has been named as a finalist in the 69th Walkley Awards for his political shares scandal reporting that led to the resignation of a chief minister, the second year in a row the paper has been shortlisted in Australia’s pre-eminent national journalism awards.. NT Labor’s Ministerial Shares Scandal, a series by Walsh about ministerial code of conduct ...
News Briefs | NT Independent
Oct 27, 2024 · by Independent Staff | Oct 2, 2024 | News, News Brief. Today’s national news includes the display of Hezbollah flags in Melbourne protest denounced, 67% of the money spent in supermarkets is shared between Coles and Woolworths, the State Department okays Australia’s $405 million guided missiles purchase, and 25th Anniversary of Peacekeeping ...