The high price of flights in and out of Alice Springs have led to one local karate lover calling on the public’s help to fund a trip to train under “superstar instructors” – with the hopes of returning to help the community.
Proposed legislation to allow the employment of private contractors in Corrections is not “privatising prisons” the deputy chief minister Gerard Maley says, but not all are convinced.
Conditional approval for a licensed premises in a troubled Top End community has been granted by the Territory’s Liquor Commission, but there are still a few hurdles the project has to overcome before punters will be able to enjoy a beer in the clubhouse.
The CLP says the government coughed up nearly $5 million to reseal a number of roads in Alice Springs which suffered “bitumen bleed”, as a “bitumen expert” writes a report for the government on what went wrong – which may never be seen by the public.
A community that challenged the Northern Territory Government over unsafe levels of uranium in drinking water have been vindicated in court, but the government says “all options” are on the table as the clock ticks down on an appeal.
More than 7000 Territorians who worked for little or no pay for nearly 40 years have been deemed eligible to receive $10,000 from a $202 million payout for their years of unpaid toil as part of a class-action lawsuit.