A male contestant on Nine’s ratings juggernaut Married At First Sight has denied serious domestic violence claims, saying he was cleared by a court after producers launched a review into how he was selected to be a ‘groom’ on the show.
Beleaguered television star Andrew O’Keefe suffered a ‘drug overdose’ early Saturday morning in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, and has now been arrested and charged by police.
Samson Jubi, a lawyer who has lived in Cairns for almost 20 years, said the national broadcaster had made a presumption of his guilt.
NT’s Chief Justice said the man had no prospects of rehabilitation after three decades of horrific abuse of women — then handed him a sentence so light it shocked DV advocates.
WATCH | Darren Wick has been confronted with the question he has carefully dodged for six months, over a scandal still reverberating through Nine after his departure amid sexual harassment allegations.
Former Northern Territory chief minister Natasha Fyles is likely to lose her seat to the Greens, marking the first time the party is set to enter Territory parliament.
Selena Uibo is the first Aboriginal woman to lead Territory Labor, elevated to the position following last month’s landslide election defeat.
A Territory Families staffer was so concerned about the welfare of an Aboriginal woman who was later found dead that they walked into a police station to request assistance, as a senior NT policeman conceded his officers were ‘overworked and overwhelmed’.
Northern Territory Police failed to respond to more than 100 domestic violence cases called in over a two-day period earlier this week.
An Aboriginal woman allegedly murdered by her partner in Darwin, after police were requested to conduct a welfare check just nine hours earlier, had almost 200 mostly domestic violence related entries in the police system.
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