Northern Territory

A majority of NT public servants want an increase to their base salaries rather than the $10,000 'bonus' the government is offering them over four years.

Katy Gallagher has decried the "unfair, outdated and paternalistic" law which blocks the ACT and Northern Territory from making voluntary assisted dying laws.

Northern Territory officials are mobilising to test and support a remote community amid fears of a COVID-19 outbreak. Lajamanu, south of Darwin, has been put into lockdown until December 11 after the virus was detected in wastewater sampling.

Another Northern Territory town has been forced into lockdown, as three new local cases of Covid-19 were found in the state overnight.

Two returned travellers have tested positive to the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 after arriving in Sydney. Added9 minutes ago NT records three new local cases of COVID-19, believed to be from 'mingling' in quarantine facility Sunday,

Three more local COVID-19 cases are recorded in the NT overnight, as the remote community of Lajamanu enters lockdown and testing continues of a South African traveller who may be carrying the new Omicron variant.

NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner has said the three new local cases of COVID-19 are likely to be caused by 'mingling' in the Howard Springs quarantine facility.

Three more local COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the NT overnight, bringing the total number of cases linked to the Katherine cluster to 56.

Four new COVID-19 cases have been detected in the Northern Territory as concern also spreads to a remote community forced into lockdown. Lajamanu, south of Darwin, will stay in lockdown until December 11 after the virus was detected in wastewater sampling.

A low and troughs are generating rain and storms across large parts of the NT, QLD, NSW, VIC and eastern SA. Rain and thunderstorms are set to drench parts of central and eastern Australia this week as the BoM announced a second La Niña weather event.