NT Legislative Assembly live blog: Bill to fix decades-long fines debacle
Welcome to our rolling coverage of the Legislative Assembly’s second sitting week – your guide to all the highs, lows and unexpected bites of life inside the Wedding Cake.
Welcome back to our rolling coverage of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which today wraps up a busy first two weeks of sittings for our new policymakers.
The CLP government passed three pieces of legislation last week – Declan’s Law (comprising amendments to two separate acts) and an amendment to the Criminal Code creating two new offences and lowering the age of criminal responsibility.
On Tuesday nuisance public drinking was re-criminalised, and today a Bill will pass bringing in new minimum mandatory sentences for assaults on frontline workers.
Don’t stray far, here’s your daily slice of action inside the Wedding Cake.
Long standing military operation canned amid Asian ramp up
As Australia continues to build relations with militaries across the Asia-Pacific, the Department of Defence has quietly pulled troops from a Middle Eastern operation, coinciding with Canberra’s focus on the ‘near region’.
‘Highly volatile’: Union’s Christmas concerns for NT corrections staff
Despite a fresh injection of correctional officers, and more on the way, the United Workers Union’s NT secretary says existing officers, particularly in Alice Springs, will be working days up to 16 hours to cover shortfalls.