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13/10/2025

Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has refused to publicly release the official rules around the use of the taxpayer-funded white car chauffeur service while revealing on Monday that Education Minister Jo Hersey has now paid back taxpayers for misusing the service, while also telling the public to have "confidence" that the secret rules are being followed. Her comments follow one minister's office calling a reporter at night last week and cryptically warning them not to "bring family into" the ongoing scandal that has cost ministers interstate their jobs. FREE TO READ>>>

https://ntindependent.com.au/lia-not-really-sure-why-pollies-misusing-white-car-service-but-public-should-be-confident-in-secret-rules/

13/10/2025

The Casuarina and Darwin bus interchanges will be permanently closed on October 27, the government has ordered, as part of its measures to enhance safety across the bus network, with riders being told to familiarise themselves with the new bus stops around Casuarina.

READ FULL STORY HERE >>> https://ntindependent.com.au/alternative-bus-stops-established-ahead-of-major-interchange-closures/

13/10/2025

A 24-hour strike has been scheduled by NT bus drivers for Monday, October 20, following stalled negotiations over a new enterprise agreement between the Transport Workers’ Union and private bus operator CDC.

READ FULL STORY HERE >>> https://ntindependent.com.au/territory-bus-drivers-to-take-24-hour-strike-action-next-week/

13/10/2025

A Darwin hostel manager has questioned whether the Finocchiaro Government would care more about her if she had been killed during a violent bashing allegedly at the hands of a man who was described as “not safe to be released into the general community”, who was booked into her hostel by a government contractor without disclosing his violent history, adding the government was “causing crime” by neglecting its responsibilities. READ FULL STORY HERE >>>

https://ntindependent.com.au/maybe-i-would-have-been-on-her-radar-if-i-had-died-hostel-manager-on-governments-response-to-bashing/

13/10/2025

The 245 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Monday, October 13, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

https://ntindependent.com.au/nt-criminal-court-list-with-charges-oct-13/

12/10/2025

CLP ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT: A long-time public servant IT specialist, part-time musician and fishing enthusiast has been elected the CLP’s third president in two years at the party’s Central Council meeting over the weekend in Alice Springs, which comes amid party turmoil that saw its now outgoing president suddenly withdraw from seeking re-election at the last minute. FULL STORY>>>

https://ntindependent.com.au/clp-elects-new-party-president-as-former-president-resigns-suddenly/

10/10/2025

A 32-year-old Queensland woman was arrested with two kilos of m**h allegedly concealed in her checked luggage at the Darwin Airport early Thursday morning as part of a Joint Organised Crime Task Force drug operation, with a 25-year-old man allegedly waiting to pick up the woman also arrested, NT Police said.

READ FULL STORY HERE >>>
https://ntindependent.com.au/major-drug-bust-at-darwin-airport-leads-to-three-arrests-nt-police/

10/10/2025

Former chief minister Clare Martin has been appointed – not elected – president of Territory Labor amid upheaval in the party, that has seen its elected executive members sacked in the fallout of the internal review into Labor’s 2024 election wipe out, the NT Independent understands, and replaced by six new members, who were also not elected by party members.

READ FULL STORY HERE >>> https://ntindependent.com.au/clare-martin-appointed-territory-labor-president-amid-sacking-of-party-executive/

10/10/2025

The 173 names facing criminal courts in the Northern Territory for Friday, October 10, 2025. This list includes all the charges.

https://ntindependent.com.au/nt-criminal-court-list-with-charges-oct-10/

09/10/2025

The manager of a Darwin hostel says she is lucky to be alive after being repeatedly kicked in the head by a man who was previously described by a psychiatrist as “not safe to be released into the general community”, but who she said was booked into her accommodation by a government contractor through the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency without disclosing his long history of violence.
READ IT HERE: https://ntindependent.com.au/he-kicked-the-sh*t-out-of-me-hostel-manager-tells-of-alleged-assault-by-newly-released-prisoner/

09/10/2025

The Federal Infrastructure Minister has responded to her Territory counterpart’s ultimatum on the proposed Alice Springs Aboriginal art gallery, which she suggested may have been political posturing by the CLP to blame the Commonwealth for its desire to bin the project outright, describing Bill Yan’s demand that the feds approve variations by yesterday as “a pretty weird way of trying to work with the Commonwealth”.
READ IT HERE: https://ntindependent.com.au/pretty-weird-clps-alice-springs-art-gallery-ultimatum-stared-down-by-federal-govt/

09/10/2025

Fresh off an “inquiry” into questionable senior police appointments that found serious dysfunction in how senior officers are promoted, including that merit is not the over-arching principle, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has appointed Martin Dole as the next NT Police Commissioner without going through a proper hiring process to seek the best candidates.
READ: https://ntindependent.com.au/martin-dole-appointed-police-commissioner-with-no-recruitment-process-undertaken/

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