Northern Territory

INTEREST in the $400 million ship lift project at East Arm is at a premium with more than 70 Territory businesses joining in a local industry engagement event organised by one of the three interstate consortiums shortlisted to build the facility.

Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have all reimposed border restrictions on people travelling from New South Wales in response to the state’s growing coronavirus outbreak.

TERRITORY Chief Health Officer Hugh Heggie has declared Northern Beaches Council LGA in NSW as a hotspot for the purposes of travel to the Northern Territory, effective at 12.01am Friday.

The Aboriginal land council representing traditional owners in the Top End has filed a compensation claim against the Northern Territory Government over the effects of the McArthur River Mine on their native title rights and alleged damage to sacred sites.

THE Northern Territory’s unemployment rate edged higher to 5.9 per cent last month largely due to a drop in part-time jobs.

Marra peoples are taking the Northern Territory government to court over alleged damage to sacred sites at McArthur River.

The trial into the matter of a Northern Territory police officer charged with the murder of a 19-year-old Warlpiri man will be held in the Darwin Supreme Court. Constable Zachary Rolfe was charged with murder in regards to the shooting death of Yuendumu teen Kumanjayi Walker in November 2019.

THE murder trial of NT Police officer Zach Rolfe will be held in Darwin after a Supreme Court judge granted an application by his lawyers on Thursday.

THE NT police union continues to stand behind the cop charged with murder over the shooting death of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu last year.

A Supreme Court judge rules the trial of NT police officer Zachary Rolfe, who is charged with the murder of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker, will be heard in Darwin, not Alice Springs.