Lee Robinson

Jan 23, 2025 | abc.net.au | Lee Robinson |Paul Serratore

The NT Police Force’s data system is doubling officers’ administrative workloads and could be producing inaccurate crime statistics, the police union says. There are concerns an already-stretched police workforce is being put under further pressure due to the difficulty of using the "complex" system. Following the system's launch in late-2023, crime statistics will once again be comparable over a 12-month period from February.

Jan 7, 2025 | abc.net.au | Lee Robinson

Former Barkly mayor Jeff McLaughlin has avoided a conviction for cannabis possession and drug-driving after prosecutors dropped more serious charges laid while he was in office in 2022. Prosecutor Andrew Lonergan told the Alice Springs Local Court on Tuesday the "most substantial charges" of supplying a less than commercial quantity of cannabis and driving under the influence of the drug had been withdrawn.

Jan 6, 2025 | abc.net.au | Lee Robinson

It's been nearly a century since explorer Harold Lasseter died during his search for a massive deposit of gold in Australia's outback. Since then gold hunters have devoted time and money into the hunt for Lasseter's Reef, hoping to make their fortune. But now one man believes he may have found it.

Jan 6, 2025 | abc.net.au | Lee Robinson

When Harold Bell Lasseter died alone in the desert in 1931, he took secrets of a supposed vast gold-bearing reef in Central Australia with him. But his death wasn't the end of the story. The tale of Lasseter and his fabled gold reef in the desert is one of hope, desperation and loss. It has weaved itself into Australian folklore and continues to inspire gold-hungry expeditions to Australia's remote heart to this day. At its core, it's a story of a lost treasure that was always just out of reach.

Dec 16, 2024 | abc.net.au | Lee Robinson

The father of a two-month-old baby who suffered a fractured skull and a brain bleed in a brazen daylight home invasion in Alice Springs says he is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from the community. One week on from the incident, which prompted an urgent trip to the Red Centre by the Northern Territory chief minister amid escalating violent crime, more than $52,000 has been donated to the Siguenza family through an online fundraiser.