Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services
The Northern Territory Police Force has arrested a male following an aggravated robbery in Wulagi yesterday evening,
Around 5:30pm, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre received multiple reports involving a male armed with sticks and a screwdriver.
The male allegedly was armed with a stick and threatening to strike vehicles whilst walking along Vanderlin Drive. He approached a residence on Vanderlin Drive and made threats towards the occupant and his dog whilst trying to enter the yard. The male then picked up a number of rocks and threw them towards the occupant and also struck the dog with a stick.
The male entered a yard on Jabiru Street, Wulagi and threatened a resident with a screwdriver before stealing tobacco and lighters.
CCTV operators assisted in locating the offender in Karama.
Casuarina General Duties attended and arrested a 42-year-old male without incident. He is expected to be charged later today.
Anyone with information about the incident to contact police on 131444 or report anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services
The Northern Territory Police Force has arrested a male following an aggravated robbery in Wulagi yesterday evening,
Around 5:30pm, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre received multiple reports involving a male armed with sticks and a screwdriver.
The male allegedly was armed with a stick and threatening to strike vehicles whilst walking along Vanderlin Drive. He approached a residence on Vanderlin Drive and made threats towards the occupant and his dog whilst trying to enter the yard. The male then picked up a number of rocks and threw them towards the occupant and also struck the dog with a stick.
The male entered a yard on Jabiru Street, Wulagi and threatened a resident with a screwdriver before stealing tobacco and lighters.
CCTV operators assisted in locating the offender in Karama.
Casuarina General Duties attended and arrested a 42-year-old male without incident. He is expected to be charged later today.
Anyone with information about the incident to contact police on 131444 or report anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
A 30-year-old Mayfield man has been charged overnight following an alleged evade incident at Lilydale yesterday.
The man was taken into custody in relation to an earlier incident on Sunday afternoon at Invermay where a vehicle containing three dogs was allegedly stolen.
The man was charged on Monday evening over the second evade incident.
He was charged with multiple offences including three counts of evade police (aggravated circumstances), aggravated burglary, stealing, motor vehicle stealing, reckless driving, common assault, injure property, drive while disqualified and minor drug-related offences.
He was remanded to appear in the Launceston Magistrates Court this morning.
Investigations into Sunday’s incident are ongoing.
📲 Anyone with information or who witnessed a short wheel base Ford Maverick – fitted with Nissan badges and registration J95UZ – driving in a dangerous/reckless manner in the George Town, Mount Direction, Lilydale or Lebrina areas yesterday morning (Monday 11 May), should contact police on 131 444 (please quote reference number 805177).
Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers Tasmania.
Source: Australian Mines and Metals Association – AMMA
AREEA Chief Executive Steve Knott is calling for real deterrents against speculative claims before confidence in the Fair Work Commission’s processes deteriorates further.
The Australian Resources and Energy Employer Association (AREEA) has called for immediate reform to Australia’s unfair dismissal and general protections claims system, warning the Fair Work Commission is being swamped by speculative, low-merit and increasingly AI-generated applications.
AREEA Chief Executive Steve Knott AM said a recent decision by Fair Work Commission Deputy President Colman laid bare the problem confronting employers and the Commission alike.
In dismissing what was the applicant’s fifth Fair Work Commission application in two years, Deputy President Colman observed:
“There is no effective disincentive for speculative claims, and so they come, in great numbers, compounding the Commission’s burgeoning caseload.”
Mr Knott said the Deputy President had accurately captured what employers have been experiencing for years.
“The system is now effectively inviting speculative claims,” Mr Knott said.
“When it costs just $89.70 to file an unfair dismissal application and nearly 40 per cent of applicants don’t even pay that because the fee is waived, there is virtually no downside to having a crack.”
“At the same time, employers are forced to spend thousands, and often tens of thousands, defending claims that should never have made it through the front door.”
Mr Knott said the rapid rise of generative AI tools including ChatGPT had made the problem materially worse.
“AI has dramatically lowered the effort required to produce lengthy applications, submissions and witness statements,” he said.
“The Fair Work Commission itself has now acknowledged an ‘unprecedented Generative Artificial Intelligence-driven increase’ in applications and litigation.
“That should ring alarm bells for Government.”
AREEA has called for the unfair dismissal and general protections lodgement fee to be increased to $500 and for the Commission to apply far stricter scrutiny before granting fee waivers based on alleged financial hardship.
“With more than 50,000 unfair dismissal and general protections claims expected this year, are we seriously meant to believe almost 20,000 applicants cannot afford an $89.70 filing fee?” Mr Knott said.
“The current settings are absurd. There is no meaningful economic disincentive against speculative litigation.”
Mr Knott said regardless of whether tonight’s Federal Budget delivered deliver additional funding to help the Fair Work Commission manage rising caseloads, simply throwing more taxpayer money at the problem was not reform.
“You cannot solve a claims explosion by hiring more bureaucrats to process weak claims faster,” he said.
“The problem is structural. Until there are real consequences for speculative applications, the volume will continue to grow.”
“Access to justice should never mean open season on employers.”
“The Fair Work system urgently needs stronger filtering mechanisms, stronger cost consequences and real deterrents against speculative claims before confidence in the system deteriorates further.”
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The Subcommittee will continue its examination of how Australia’s development cooperation contributes to conflict prevention and stability, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings across the Indo-Pacific region.
Chair, theHon Tim Watts MP, said the Subcommittee hopes to gain valuable perspectives from two organisations working at the intersection of humanitarian response, delivery of development assistance, and conflict prevention – the World Food Programme and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.
‘Witnesses from these organisations can offer important insights into how food security, mediation, and dialogue can help address the drivers of conflict and build more stable and resilient communities across our region,’ the Chair said.
The Subcommittee expects to hold further public hearings in June.
For more information about this Committee, you can visit itswebsite. On the site, you can make a submission to an inquiry, read other submissions, and get details for upcoming public hearings. You can also track the Committee and receive email updates by clicking on the blue ‘Track Committee’ button in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
RICHARD KING, HOST: Our Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, will be handing down the Budget tonight. And well, the expectation is we keep hearing about intergenerational equity, particularly trying to get more younger Australians into the housing market. The great Australian dream. Is it still the great Australian dream, owning your own home? And the expectation is some of the things that might receive a bit of a change will be things like capital gains tax discounts, negative gearing and taxation of trust funds. But with more on that, joining me now is our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Good morning, Prime Minister.
Three people have been charged after a BMW iX3 was stolen from Kings Meadows last night, before being intercepted by police and recovered in Latrobe.
The vehicle was reported stolen and police were notified of it being driven dangerously on the Bass Highway at Westbury about 8.30pm.
Officers from northern and western districts responded, using road spikes to intercept the vehicle after the driver reportedly failed to stop for police.
The vehicle then continued to travel on the Bass Highway towards Devonport, before coming to a stop near the Mersey Community Hospital.
The three occupants ran from the vehicle and were quickly apprehended by police.
An 18-year-old man was charged with aggravated evade, stealing and drink driving offences and two 18-year-old women were charged with stealing, breach of bail and trespass.
All three will appear in court at a later date.
Police are calling for further information about the incident, and anyone with dashcam or other relevant footage of a white BMX iX3 travelling on the Bass Highway about 8.30pm last night is asked to contact police and quote OR805229.
Information can also be provided anonymously to Crime Stoppers Tasmania on 1800 333 000 or at crimestopperstas.com.au.
A man remains in custody following an incident at Invermay yesterday where a car containing three dogs was allegedly stolen.
Police received multiple calls on Sunday afternoon from members of the public reporting the stolen vehicle driving erratically in different locations between Invermay and George Town.
Police attempted to intercept the vehicle on the East Tamar Highway before the driver allegedly evaded officers.
Spikes were successfully deployed at Newnham where the driver allegedly abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene.
The 30-year-old Mayfield man was arrested this morning at Lalla after he allegedly evaded police in a second stolen vehicle.
Both vehicles have been recovered by police.
Investigations are ongoing, with the man continuing to assist police with their inquiries.
No charges have been laid at this stage.
The three dogs were safely returned to their owner after they were located by members of the public.
Anyone with information should contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000 or online at crimestopperstas.com.au