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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis |Stewart Brash
The Local Government Association of the Northern Territory (LGANT) has criticised a proposal to change how council mayors are elected. Currently under the Local Government Act, councils decide prior to elections whether voters elect their mayor, or whether councillors appoint a mayor at their first meeting. But a potential amendment to the act proposes that all NT councils elect their mayor, removing the option for voters to elect their mayor directly.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Emma Haskin |Stewart Brash
A fire at an outback business has caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Owner Andrew Mowles says nothing is salvageable from the condemned site, including his priceless Hawthorn Hawks memorabilia. The cause of the blaze is still being investigated. A family-owned business is determined to stay open after a devastating fire caused millions of dollars in damage to its premises in Alice Springs last week.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Stewart Brash |Emma Haskin
Alice Springs tourism industry veterans want action on challenges that have damaged the destination's reputation over the past five years. A motion has been put to the region's tourism peak body by two stalwarts of the industry, Brendan Heenan and Bill Wilcox, calling on candidates at the upcoming federal election to outline how they address issues such as anti-social behaviour and curfews.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Charmayne Allison |Emma Haskin |Stewart Brash
Alice Springs businesses say they will voluntarily maintain a minimum alcohol price, despite the Northern Territory government's plan to scrap a law that mandates it. In 2018, the previous Labor government introduced an alcohol "floor price" that banned sales below $1.30 per standard drink, specifically to target cheap wine.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Lee Robinson |Stewart Brash |Meredith Lake
Taxi drivers have allegedly been targeted by a group of young offenders in a stolen ute in Alice Springs, where a taxi was rammed and its driver robbed twice in the space of 30 minutes early on Friday. Northern Territory Police say a Ford Ranger was stolen from a house in Larapinta at about 10pm on Thursday, which was then used to ram three taxis across town.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charmayne Allison |Stewart Brash |Meredith Lake
Northern Territory Police are on the hunt for copper thieves stripping wire from Alice Springs telecommunications pits to sell on the black market. Police have received several reports since April of copper wire being stolen from two telecommunication pits between The Gap and Alice Springs Airport, disrupting services. It is alleged hundreds of metres of copper wire have been pulled out, likely using a "large vehicle". Police believe the wire is subsequently cut into smaller segments for sale.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stewart Brash |Emma Haskin
Wet weather closures at one of Australia's top tourist destinations are costing operators tens of thousands of dollars each season. Nick Bitar owns Outback Cycling, which rents bikes at the base of Uluru to enable tourists to cycle the 10-kilometre loop of the rock. But when it rains, Parks Australia rangers can close the dirt path to bikes and segways.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charmayne Allison |Stewart Brash
The Northern Territory police union has condemned a string of violent incidents at the weekend targeting police, claiming local members are being treated like "the community’s punching bags". NT Police recommenced Operation Archer on Saturday in response to the incidents, which allegedly saw young offenders throw rocks at police, leaving one female officer hospitalised.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Roxanne Fitzgerald |Stewart Brash
An Alice Springs brewery will be allowed to continue selling takeaway alcohol on days other businesses in the town are banned following a months-long investigation by the Northern Territory Liquor Commission. Takeaway liquor sales have been prohibited on Mondays and Tuesdays in Alice Springs since January 2023, when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flew into the town amid a storm of political pressure and media attention over crime rates.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Lee Robinson |Stewart Brash
The demolition of Anzac Oval in Alice Springs has been halted, as the new NT government reconsiders the "next steps" for the controversy-plagued Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Gallery. The site for the $150 million project, formerly known as the National Aboriginal Art Gallery, has faced sustained community pushback since it was first announced by the former NT Labor government in 2017.
