Newsletter – late April 2024
Greetings Friends, This monthly newsletter (No. 38) includes; Is government listening?, Planning for Lee Point, NT Election 2024, art and walks, quiz, grass fire. 1.0 Is Government listening? Fig 1. People at the main 2CRU gate asking the NT Government to stop clearing old-growth forest at Lee Point – 31 March 2024. Fig …
May 5 – Choir
Snap Community Choir Please see the first Voices of the Top End Community Engagement Report which followed 5 months of small-group conversations around Darwin and beyond. What we found was an impressive, coherent picture of what makes our community unique and the long-term priorities for a safe, healthy and fair future. Unsurprisingly, Top End locals talked about …
May 4 – DHA
Palmerston Markets May 3, missing in “in-action”? Defence personnel can access non-market housing without tight means testing or stigma. Defence Housing Australia (DHA) operates as a public housing developer to ensure that defence personnel have affordable housing options near key military facilities. They sometimes sell those properties to private investors with a long-term lease in …
May 2 – 2cru and CBD
Todays round up. “There has to be a duty of care when using heavy machinery in an unsecured site. What would have happened if a protester had fainted while sitting in the grass in the path of the dozers and management knew there were people in the path of that heavy machinery?” Missing in action: …
May 1 – 2cru
If you have any free time now is the time to be out at Lee Point. Multiple arrests are occurring. Workers threatening Violence towards peaceful, non-violent defenders.
April 30th 2cru
April 30 In a chaotic show of force police and security guards teamed up to man handle protesters at Lee Point this morning. There was no indication of who was incharge of the construction site and no notice of works or safety information was posted. Worksafe NT have been advised but seem reluctant to attend …
Doctors In Threat To Leave
17/4/2024 Northern Territory News ALEX TREACY A group of clinicians previously employed in the Top End are using the Territory’s well-documented shortage of medical staff as leverage in a bid to torpedo the proposed Lee Point precinct development, saying its progression would make their future return unlikely. The group of nine clinicians, led by Dr …
Newsletter – early April 2024
Greetings Friends, This monthly newsletter (No. 37) includes; Senator walks, NT Election, Area Plan and National Park, Art and Artlink, Quiz, Plants and Wildlife. 1.0 Senators visit Lee Point and NT election 2024 During 9-11 April, five senators from the Middle Arm Senate Inquiry visited Lee Point and said they would be encouraging government …