Category: MIL-OSI

Source: New South Wales Health – State Government

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is advising people to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after being notified of a confirmed case.
The case attended one of the listed exposure sites in NBMLHD at the same time as a confirmed case earlier this month and visited several other locations while unknowingly infectious.
People who attended these locations should watch for symptoms of measles. These locations do not pose an ongoing risk.

Woolworths, Jordan Springs: 17 March 2026, 8.15am – 9.20am  
Baby Bunting Penrith, Jamisontown: 18 March 2026, 2.00pm – 2.45pm
Kmart Penrith – Nepean Village: 18 March 2026, 2.30pm – 3.20pm
Brell House, St Marys: 18 March 2026, 6.30pm – 9.00pm 
Young Academics Early Learning Centre, Cranebrook: 18 March 2026, 8.55am – 9.30am, 4.10pm – 4.45pm and 20 March 2026, 8.50am – 9.25am and 5.00pm – 5.35pm
Scent Method Warehouse, Prestons: 19 March 2026, 11.30am – 12.10pm
Terry White Chemist, Jordan Springs: 19 March 2026, 6.00pm – 6.50pm
Parx Coffee House, Cranebrook: 20 March 2026, 8.55am – 9.30am
Subway, Jordan Springs: 20 March 2026, 7.00pm – 7.35pm
XS Espresso, Jordan Springs: 21 March 2026, 11.50am – 12.35pm

A full list of locations is available on the NSW Health website. Exposure locations and times are updated regularly.
If it has been less than 6 days since the exposure at these locations and you are pregnant, have a weakened immune system or have an infant who was exposed, you are advised to contact your local Public Health Unit on 1300 066 055.
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District’s Centre for Population Health Director, Eloise Milthorpe, said people should monitor for symptoms of measles, particularly if they have visited any of the exposure locations at the listed time.
“If symptoms develop and you’ve been at one of the locations at the time listed above, see your doctor or health service, including an emergency department. Call ahead to let them know that you may have come into contact with measles, so you don’t spend time in waiting rooms with other patients and wear a mask,” Ms Milthorpe said.
“Symptoms to watch out for include fever, sore eyes, runny nose and a cough, usually followed three or four days later by a red, blotchy rash that spreads from the head and face to the rest of the body.
“Anyone with early symptoms who gets a rash a few days later should also think about measles, even if they haven’t attended one of the identified locations, and seek testing.
“It can take up to 18 days for symptoms to appear after an exposure, so it’s important for people who visited these locations to look out for symptoms for this period.”
Measles is a vaccine preventable disease that is spread through the air when someone who is infectious coughs or sneezes.
“Importantly, we want to remind the community to make sure they are up to date with their vaccinations. Measles vaccine can prevent the disease even after exposure, if given early enough,” Ms Milthorpe said.
“Anyone born after 1965 needs to ensure they have had two doses of measles vaccine. This is especially important before overseas travel, as measles outbreaks are occurring in several regions of the world at the moment.”
Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is safe and effective and is given free for children at 12 and 18 months of age. It is also free in NSW for anyone born after 1965 who hasn’t already had two doses.
Children under the age of 12 months can have an extra, early, dose of MMR from six months of age if they are travelling overseas. Parents should consult their GP.
People who are unsure of whether they have had two doses should get a vaccine, as additional doses are safe. This is particularly important prior to travel. MMR vaccine is available from GPs (all ages) and pharmacies (people over 5 years of age).
For more information on measles, view the measles factsheet. 
People can also visit the Australian Government Smart Traveller website for information on health risks, including measles outbreaks relevant to their travel destination.
If you, or a loved one, is experiencing measles symptoms, or have questions about measles, please call your GP or Healthdirect on 1800 022 222. 

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet, I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Australian food and drinks are the best in the world.

And there’s a reason why the world wants them.

Because our food and beverage industry brings together the best of everything Australian.

Our agriculture and food science, our creativity and drive, our unique Australian tastes and our native flavours.

Our way of doing things – our focus on quality – mean the words “Made in Australia” have become a synonym for excellence the world over.

Almost one year ago, on the first full day of the 2025 election campaign, I visited Bundaberg Brewed Drinks in Central Queensland – who are here tonight.

Uncertainty around global trade was growing, and so against that iconic backdrop of ginger beer and sarsaparilla, I announced our Australian Made campaign.

Encouraging more Australians to buy more Australian products.

An additional measure in our industry policy, backing in our manufacturers and producers.

Twelve months later, and we are facing another shock to the global economy.

This time an unprecedented disruption to global energy markets caused by the war in the Middle East. 

Australian producers, suppliers and consumer are all dealing with the pressure of higher fuel prices and the uncertainty of disrupted supply chains.

And though Australian food and drinks makers had a bumper 2025, the interconnected nature of our world means no one is immune.

But while yet another economic shock has come our way, the resolve of my Government to back Australian industry remains unchanged.

Because Labor knows that central to our national success, is the success of Australian manufacturing. 

It’s why we’ve made sure we are more fuel secure now than we have been for a long time – and why we’ve taken a number of steps to help boost that security.

Under our plan, more fuel made here will stay here for Australians to use, particularly in regional areas confronting big spikes in demand.

We have given the green light to the release of 20 per cent of our domestic fuel reserves, which are now held here, close at hand – not in another country.

The ACCC is cracking down on unfair price rises at the bowser, and we are bringing forward legislation to double penalties when Australians are ripped off.

Through National Cabinet we stood up a new Fuel Supply Taskforce, headed by Anthea Harris, to coordinate our national response on fuel security and supply.

This is particularly important for managing distribution at the state level – so fuel can flow across sectors of the economy where it’s needed most.

And on Monday, Minister Julie Collins will bring government, industry experts and communities together at a meeting of the National Food Council.

Tasked with thrashing out how we can best support our farmers and producers across the whole food system, particularly on future fertiliser supply.

Australian industry is facing uncertainty across the broad, and these measures are not the end of our response.

But they weren’t the beginning, either.  

A clear theme of my Government is securing a Future Made in Australia.

Driving investment in domestic manufacturing so we can make more things here.

Building our sovereign capability and supply chain resilience through the National Reconstruction Fund and Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.

Recognising that if we always find ourselves at the end of the global supply chain, we are always going to be vulnerable.

And embracing the capacity of new technology – including AI – so more value-adding can happen here, in Australian factories, boosting productivity.

All these things help build up our resilience at home.

But for an open, trading nation like ours, it is not viable to just turn inward.

Our capacity for trade is essential to our growth.

That’s why we continue to advocate for Australian businesses overseas and argue against tariffs.  

And why it is crucial Australia remain agile in diversifying our markets.

We worked hard to secure a Free Trade Agreement with the UAE.

And next week European Union President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Australia as we aim to conclude the Australia-EU free trade deal.

Potentially boosting access for Australian businesses to a growing European market of 450 million consumers who are eager to get their teeth into all the good things that are made here in Australia.

Friends, there are new challenges in front of us, but there are always new opportunities to seize as well.

And when we work together, we are at our best – that is my Government’s focus.

Supporting Australia’s manufacturing and production capacity, so we can make more things here.

Taking Australia out into the world, so we can grow our markets and grow our economy at home.

Making sure our industry policy works in the interests of business, as well as delivering a fair go for employees and consumers.

Working together to secure a bright and sustainable future for every Australian manufacturer, farmer, scientist, engineer and designer represented here tonight.

Helping your industry to continue to go from strength to strength and grow its contribution to our great nation.

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

in chào.

I want to particularly welcome and acknowledge the veterans of the Vietnamese community. 

You showed such courage in leaving the land of your birth to create a better life and freedom for yourselves, but also for the generations to come. 

And I thank you for your courage, your resilience, and I acknowledge the sacrifice that you have made. 

I come from Sydney, where in my local community of Marrickville, there’s a very large Vietnamese Australian community. 

And one of the things about the Vietnamese Australian community that is synonymous, whether it be here in Melbourne, or be in Sydney or Brisbane, or every part of this great land of ours, where Vietnamese have made Australia your home for the last five decades, is the leadership of women in your community. 

And I want to acknowledge that as well. 

So, to the wonderful Nicky who, last time I had an event at Kirribilli House in Sydney to acknowledge the 50 years of commemoration and contribution to our nation.

To your founder, Cam Nguyen, as well, it is great to see you both again. 

It is so important to acknowledge the role that your community organisations have done.

Through the dedication and hard work of your members, you are the reason that events like this make it off the drawing board and on to what is an extremely successful event.

In so many ways, whether it is intergenerational care, caring for your elderly or making sure that your culture is handed down to these young boys and girls who are with us here today, the AVWA has been the backbone of your community. 

In the process, you’ve added strength and cohesion to our country. 

For that, we owe you our gratitude. 

It is a great pleasure to be celebrating Culture Connects Us All. 

What a perfect venue to be marking an occasion such as this. 

The Immigration Museum invites all of us to reflect on and take pride in something that is at the very heart of the Australian story. 

It’s known to everyone and every community that have looked to this great land of Australia and seen the possibility of a better future for themselves and their families.

A place of sanctuary, a place of unlimited possibility, a place where new roots can be put down to flourish safely beneath our southern stars.

A continent that unites all of us, for the love of it.

Whether we’re Australians by church, choice, or by birth.

And it’s important to acknowledge that with the exception of First Nations people, we are all either migrants or descendants of migrants. 

Earlier on, we spoke about the ending of the White Australia policy, so important by the Whitlam Government just before the arrival of Vietnamese refugees. 

We need to be vigilant. 

There are some, including some in political life, want to turn back the clock to an Australia that is no longer who we are. 

And we need to call out those people.

And we need to continue to cherish our diversity as a strength for our nation, which it is.

The fact that people have come from all over the world, and there is no better example than the Vietnamese community.

The Vietnamese community, many of whom came as the wonderful song that we just heard depicted, making sacrifices, coming here with nothing.

The people who are now our doctors, our nurses, our teachers, our academics, our construction workers, our people who’ve made such an incredible contribution to Australia.

We should not take it for granted.

And today, like every day, we need to be proud of who we are as Australians, acknowledging our culture as the theme of today says – Culture Connects Us All.

And we’re all enriched by it. 

Last year, of course, we paid tribute to those early Vietnamese who came to these shores.

And we can never overestimate how hard it was for you to leave your beloved homeland to make those sacrifices. 

But I think in part, because of those sacrifices, you came here with strength and resilience.

And you’ve shown that every single day.

Australia gave people safe haven, and in return, they gave this country strength. 

50 years ago, as those early Vietnamese Australians set about making the best of all this country offered them, they also set about enriching every part of our national life.

And bit by bit, you have added to the social cohesion that makes Australia at our best, a beacon to the world.

A microcosm that can show the world, where there is so much turbulence and conflict, that people can be enriched by people of different faith, different backgrounds, different cultures, coming together and enriching us. 

And indeed, the performances that you will see today – the performances of song, of national dress, and food, including banh mi, is very important as well, the contribution that you make.

Yours is an inspirational success story. 

It is a bright light in the story of multicultural Australia.

And it is a glow that touches every Australian. 

Thank you so much for giving me the honour of spending this morning with you. 

Thank you so much for giving me the incredible honour of being Prime Minister of the greatest country on Earth. 

It is something that I don’t take for granted, something I work hard on each and every day, inspired by the ordinary Australians who put in to build this country, every single day and to make it better as we continue on the wonderful journey, and we write the next chapter of our great history.

Have a lovely day. 

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

n behalf of the Australian Government, we pay tribute to Rhoda Roberts AO, a trailblazer in the media and across the creative arts, and fierce advocate for First Nations culture and voices.

For every step Rhoda took during her journey, she took a generation of people with her.

At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when the world was watching, it was Rhoda’s choreography that took centre stage in the Opening Ceremony.

As creative director of the Awakening segment, she helped share Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures with Australia and the world.

Rhoda would go on to bring her creative vision to many festivals, including Garma in North East Arnhem Land, the country’s largest Indigenous gathering, and Parrtjima Festival in Alice Springs.

A proud Widjabul Wieybal woman of the Bundjalung nation, Aunty Rhoda was a fierce advocate for creating spaces for First Nations voices and perspectives to be heard in the media and creative arts. 

Among the many honours during her long career, Rhoda received an Order of Australia in 2016 for distinguished service to the performing arts and her leadership, advocacy and promotion of contemporary Indigenous culture.

Last year, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the First Nations Media Awards.

Rhoda Roberts made an extraordinary contribution to our country. Australians have a better understanding of the world’s oldest living culture and our nation because of her.

On behalf of the government and all Australians, we extend our sympathy and condolences to Rhoda’s family, friends and loved ones.

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“Rhoda Roberts’ generosity enriched Australians’ lives, her wisdom enlarged our nation’s understanding.

“Her grace gifted to all of us a deeper sense of who we are and the extraordinary privilege we have to share this continent with the oldest continuous culture in the world.

“Rhoda made it easier for others to not just follow in her footsteps, but to continue the journey after her final one. That is power of her legacy and through it, Rhoda will always be with us.”

< Quotes attributable to Minister for the Arts Tony Burke:

“Rhoda Roberts paved the pathway for First Nations First in Australia’s National Cultural Policy.

“There are generations of artists who credit Rhoda as the catalyst for their careers.

“Rhoda Roberts, you will always be respected, revered and loved. We are grateful for you. Rest in peace.”

< Quotes attributable to Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy:

“Rhoda Roberts inspired so many Australians, especially First Nations Australians in the media and creative arts.

“Rhoda was a confidant and mentor to me and many others, during our time as journalists in the 1990s.

“I will treasure our final conversation recently about how First Nations people are now everywhere in the arts and media sectors, in front of and behind cameras and on stage.”

Source: South Australia County Fire Service

Issued on
22 Mar 2026 12:19

Warning area
Haslam and the Flinders Highway on the West Coast of Eyre Peninsula.

Warning level
Advice – Avoid Smoke

Action
Smoke from HASLAM is in the Haslam township and the Flinders Highway area.

Smoke can affect your health. You should stay informed and be aware of the health impacts of smoke on yourself and others.

Symptoms of exposure includes shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing, burning eyes, running nose, chest tightness, chest pain and dizziness or light-headedness.

If you or anyone in your care are having difficulty breathing, seek medical attention from your local GP. If your symptoms become severe, call 000.

More information will be provided by the CFS when it is available.

Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services

The Northern Territory Police Force has arrested three males in relation to a vehicle that was stolen in Alice Springs in the early hours of this morning.

At 1am, police received a report of a robbery at a residence on Spicer Crescent in Araluen. It is alleged four offenders, some armed with edged weapons, unlawfully entered the residence and threatened the male occupant with the weapons. The offenders allegedly stole the keys to a Toyota Echo and fled the scene in the vehicle.

The victim did not suffer any injuries.

As police were attending the scene, a second report was received of an unlawful entry at a residence on Lulba Court in Braitling. Unknown offenders had allegedly entered the residence and stolen a Mitsubishi Pajero.

A short time later, the Pajero was sighted by police CCTV travelling through the Alice Springs CBD. The police drone was deployed to track the vehicle and tyre deflation devices (TDD) were successfully deployed on Swartz Crescent. The drone continued to track the vehicle until it came to a stop on the Stuart Highway, where the 15-year-old male driver and two male occupants, aged 13 and 20, attempted to flee on foot.

All three were arrested by attending police and remain in police custody. The Pajero was recovered by police.

Around 3:25am, the Toyota Echo was sighted by police on the Stuart Highway before travelling west on Larapinta Drive.

The stolen motor vehicle and its occupants remain outstanding at this time and police are investigating if the two incidents are linked.

Anyone with information is urged to contact police on 131 444. Please quote reference P26084542. Anonymous reports can be made through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or via https://crimestoppersnt.com.au/.

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

PETER KHALIL, MEMBER FOR WILLS: Good afternoon, everyone. It is wonderful to have the Prime Minister visit the new Coburg Medicare Urgent Care Clinic here at 444 Sydney Road, in the heart of Coburg. It’s a wonderful location, and it’s very, very popular with all the community members that I’ve been talking to about the grand opening, which is going to happen at 8am on Monday morning. But it’s great to have the Prime Minister here to officially open the new MUCC. I will say we’ve also got Ged Kearney here, my great neighbour in the neighbouring electorate of Cooper, who’s done a terrific amount of work, not just on Medicare, but particularly on women’s health. We were just talking about that, when she was Assistant Minister for Health in the first term. So, a lot of great work there.

This is one of the legacy pieces of the Albanese Government, that the amount of impact that it has on the community. The investment in Medicare, the investment in bulk billing, investment in these Medicare Urgent Care Clinics is going to be remembered and acknowledged for generations, because it has a real impact on community. Every person I speak to out there on Sydney Road, when I say we’re opening up this new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, their eyes light up. They say, ‘this is fantastic. We need this.’ Being able to get this kind of non-life threatening, but urgent care late at night on weekends is a must for this community. So, it’s very, very popular. And I’m so pleased that we were able to get one here in Coburg. We need one in this part of Melbourne. And the Prime Minister and the Minister for Health, Mark Butler, have done a terrific job in this space. So, thank you, Prime Minister, for that commitment to health care for Australians. And it is going to be great to open this up on Monday, which happens to also be my birthday. So I’m looking forward to coming down at 8am – not to get any treatment, but just to see the first patients come through. My office is just down the road. So, with that, I’ll hand over to the PM to say a few words. Thanks, Prime Minister.

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Here, of course, with the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, this is one of the 137 that we’ve committed to. Almost all of them are now open. We promised in 2022 to deliver 50. We delivered 87. And then in the election, just last year, less than a year ago, we promised another 50, and almost all of them are opened. The final ones opening in these weeks. And we’re hoping that they’re all open before the Budget. Now, these are fantastic. And this one here, of course, is brand spanking new. And I want to pay tribute to the doctors and the nurses and the health professionals who will service people who come here without notice, just rock up, that’s what you can do to get the health care you need when you need it. So, it’s important for people’s health. And the people I’ve spoken to in Urgent Care Clinics right around the country, the satisfaction rate is extraordinary. They’re shocked that they can rock up here, for themselves or for their children, because one in three of the more than two million people who’ve received support through a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic are under the age of 16. They can rock up, get the care they need when they need it. Really important for people’s health. But not just for people’s health – also good for the health of their bank balance. Because all they need is this little piece of plastic. All they need is their green and gold Medicare card. It’s green and gold for a reason, because it speaks about Australian values, that whether you’re a billionaire or whether you are someone who is under financial difficulty, you get the same care, and that is absolutely important to who we are. The third thing it’s good for, of course, is the overall health system, because it takes pressure off the emergency departments of hospitals. If someone has a broken arm or someone has a cut, they can get come here instead of waiting hour after hour, while more acute and life threatening cases jump the queue – quite rightly – ahead of them in emergency departments. So, it’s taking pressure off them as well. A good primary health care system is so important.

Now, when you combine this with the tripling of the bulk billing incentive, that has seen more than 1,300 clinics, not just individuals, but clinics, go to fully bulk billing every single patient with just their Medicare card required, now that is making an enormous difference as well, with bulk billing rates rising after the decline that occurred under the former government. And so that, together with the $25 billion of additional investment we’ve put into the hospital system through state governments, with our Health and Hospitals Agreement for the next five years, it just shows the work that we are doing on health is making an incredible difference. And congratulations to everyone – for Peter who fought to get this Urgent Care Clinic right here. It will make a difference to the lives of people in this local community. Happy to take some questions.

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Source: Prime Minister of Australia

he Albanese Government is delivering for residents in Coburg and Brunswick with the opening of the Coburg Medicare Urgent Care Clinic. 

The new Coburg Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, located at 444 Sydney Road, Coburg, will open on Monday, 21 March 2026 with extended hours, seven days a week. 

No appointment is needed, patients can walk in and all services are bulk billed. 

The highly trained doctors and nurses are equipped to treat a range of conditions and injuries that need urgent attention but aren’t life threatening, including cuts, viral infections, or a sprained ankle.

The Coburg Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Royal Melbourne Hospital, where around 29 per cent of presentations in 2024-25 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions. 

The Coburg Medicare Urgent Care Clinic joins the existing network of 28 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Victoria.

This is part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to deliver more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across the country with 4 out of 5 Australians to live within a 20-minute drive from their local clinic. 

Labor’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have already seen more than 2.7 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including more than 565,900 presentations to Victorian Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.

Over one in four of these were patients aged under 15 years old, more than one in four were on weekends, and one in four were weekday after hours visits (at or after 5pm).

The Coburg Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is commissioned by the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network.

< Quotes attributable to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese:

“Labor is setting up a network of Medicare Urgent Care Clinics help patients get the care they need while easing pressure on hospitals.

“When you go to an Urgent Care Clinic, all you will need is your Medicare card, not your credit card.

“Our Government is strengthening Medicare making care more affordable and accessible for millions of Australians.  

Quotes attributable to Minister for Health and Ageing, Mark Butler: 

“We’re delivering on our promise to open more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in Victoria.   

“This new clinic will be open seven days a week, for extended hours and most importantly patients will be fully bulk billed.  

“This clinic is a key part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to strengthen Medicare and make health care more accessible and affordable.” 

< Quotes attributable to Member for Wills, Peter Khalil:

“We don’t offer empty promises – Labor actually deliver for Wills. Local families now have access to fast, free urgent care. That means no appointments, no out-of-pocket costs, just quality treatment when they need it.

“This clinic will take pressure off our hospitals, freeing up emergency departments while ensuring people get timely care for urgent but non-life-threatening conditions.

“The former Member for Wills, Bob Hawke, created Medicare and we’re honouring that legacy today by strengthening it on the ground by expanding access, cutting wait times, and making sure 4 out of 5 Australians can get free urgent medical care close to home.”

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

EDDIE HUGHES, STATE MEMBER FOR GILES: It’s great to have the Prime Minister here in Whyalla today at the Steelworks. Just over a year ago, there was a massive intervention here in Whyalla to rescue the Steelworks, to provide a future for Whyalla and to provide a future for sovereign steel manufacturing in our nation. As a measure of what has happened and the confidence in the future, there are now 76 apprentices working throughout the facility here in Whyalla. So, that is great news. Over a year ago, unprecedented intervention has made a massive difference. So, an incredibly warm welcome for the Prime Minister and what he achieved, along with the Premier Peter Malinauskas, and a whole heap of other people doing the right thing by this community. So, congratulations there, Prime Minister. Over to you. 

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The Steelworks is safer and stronger because of the intervention and it’s taken two Labor Government to do that, the Federal Labor Government working with the Malinauskas Labor Government in South Australia, making sure that we are delivering for working people, delivering by saving the Steelworks, but also delivering through the other measures that we’ve taken: making sure that people get a fair crack, the tax cuts that we’ve delivered for every worker who is here, the Free TAFE which is benefiting and encouraging people to undertake those apprenticeships, the $10,000 incentives for electrical and construction which is making a difference as well. All of these measures are contributing to this local economy here in regional South Australia, but importantly as well, contributing to our national security. That is why locally made steel is absolutely essential. And we were determined to not just sit back and watch things happen through markets that simply don’t work. We were determined to intervene and to make sure that governments looked after people. And that’s why tomorrow I certainly hope that Peter Malinauskas gets the result that he deserves, because he deserves to be re-elected as Premier of South Australia with people like Eddie as an important part of his team as we go forward. I’ll hand over to Tim Ayres and then we’ll take some questions.

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Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services

The Northern Territory Police Force has arrested three male youths after multiple vehicles were stolen across Alice Springs overnight.

Around 6:05am, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre (JESCC) received a report of a burglary at an address on Jennerae Drive, Stuart. Two vehicles were allegedly stolen, a blue BMW, and a brown Mitsubishi Pajero with NT registration CC68HS. It unknown at this stage what time the burglary occurred.

Around 6:15am, the JESCC received a report of a robbery at a residence on Bloomfield Street, Gillen. It is alleged two unknown male offenders, one allegedly armed with an edged weapon, threatened a 23-year-old female before stealing her silver Toyota Yaris. The victim suffered minor injuries as the vehicle drove away while was holding a door handle, causing her to fall to the ground.

Around 6:45am, the JESCC received another report of a burglary at a residence on Dixon Road, Braitling. It is alleged sometime between 5am and 6am this morning a white Hyundai hatchback and a grey Mitsubishi Lancer with NT registration 939295 were stolen from the address.

Police commenced investigations and subsequently located the BMW, Toyota Yaris, and Hyundai abandoned. All three have been seized for forensic investigation.

Three male youths aged 14, 14 and 16, have since been arrested by police. They remain in police custody.

The Mitsubishi Pajero and Mitsubishi Lancer remain outstanding and investigations are ongoing. At this stage, police believe the incidents are linked.

Strike Force Viper has carriage of the investigation and anyone with information, including CCTV or dash cam footage, is urged to contact police on 131 444. Anonymous reports can be made through Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or via https://crimestoppersnt.com.au/.