Darwin CBD Hotel quietly changed to the detention center for illegal fishermen

A Northern Territory Hotel has quietly changed to a detention center for illegal foreign fishermen, while the authorities are struggling with an increase in ships caught in North Australian waters. Data from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority shows that more than 240 foreign fishermen have been prosecuted in the local court of Darwin since July […]

Darwin Airport increases costs to ‘more than double’ somewhere else in Australia

Darwin’s airport has adopted the non -enviable title of the most expensive capital of Capital City in the country, after operators have increased the landing costs by more than 110 percent. The reimbursement increase by Darwin’s Airport Development Group (ADG), which came into force on 1 July, has already seen that Charter Companies Hardy Aviation […]

Teen accused of alleged ‘violent’ and ‘brutal’ rape of top end worker

Northern Territory Police has arrested a teenager who reportedly raped a female employee during some officers describing as a “brutal” daylight attack on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin. The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was charged during the weekend for various violent offenses, including rape, worsened abuse, worsened burglary, worsened theft […]

NT compared to us under Trump about plans to arm the public ‘quasi-police’

A plan to equip Northern Territory Transit and public housing safety officers with “quasi-polishes”, including to wear weapons on buses, in supermarkets and social housing, has been closed as a “deeply irresponsible escalation” that could endanger lives. The readers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander are advised that this article contains the name of a […]