Staff of Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney tried in vain to save dying woman in Darwin

Staff of Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney tried saving a woman who died in Darwin after an alleged domestic violence-related stabbing.

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney’s staff tried saving a woman who died in Darwin following an alleged domestic violence-related stabbing on Friday evening.

Ms Burney later comforted members of the victim’s family.

It was one of two stabbing incidents in Darwin, with two other individuals allegedly stabbed in an underground carpark in a shopping centre in Darwin’s north. In another incident, the tyres of a police car were slashed.

On Saturday, Ms Burney, who had been in the Northern Territory meeting constituents, said her staff helped hotel workers assist the 51-year-old victim before she was taken to hospital, where she died.

Police said her partner, a 56-year-old man, was charged with murder on Saturday evening.

Ms Burney said she comforted the dying woman’s family, who were at the scene.

“Last night in Darwin, a woman tragically died after allegedly being stabbed outside a hotel where I was staying,” Ms Burney told the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

“The woman came into the hotel to seek help.

“Together with staff from the hotel, members of my staff provided assistance to the woman, and I comforted members of her family,” the minister said

Police and ambulance officers were called to the Hilton Hotel Esplanade in the CBD just after 6pm after a woman entered the hotel seeking help, police said.

“The woman was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital with life-threatening injuries and died a short time later,” a police spokeswoman said.

Police said CCTV operators were able to direct police to the man, who was still in the area, and he was arrested without incident. He will face court on Monday.

In a separate incident, police arrested a 22-year-old woman who allegedly stabbed two people “following an argument” in an underground carpark of a shopping centre in Casuarina.

“Paramedics treated a 41-year-old man at the scene for injuries to his leg, and the 29-year-old woman was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital suffering non-life threatening injuries to her back,” police said in a statement.

In a third knife-related incident, also in Casuarina, a man allegedly slashed the tyres of a police vehicle, rendering it inoperable, after police confiscated alcohol he was allegedly consuming in public.

On Saturday, NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said she wanted the Territory “to be safe for everyone”.

“My heart goes out to all those affected last night. A woman has lost her life,” she said.

It comes just under four weeks after a bottleshop worker was stabbed to death by an Indigenous teenager after allegedly being refused service.

Following the death, the Fyles government legislated an urgent amendment to include a new presumption against bail for violent offences involving a weapon.

The new laws are applicable to youth and adults and co-offenders who might not even be carrying a weapon but are involved in an offence where a weapon is used.