Darwin

So there's a few things kind of going on here, right? Now, for those who've been paying attention to this show or who have been paying attention to the property market across the last...

well, 20 years, let's say, we have eight independent markets, right? So between Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Darwin, Canberra, et cetera, et cetera.

So there are eight independent markets.

Now keep in mind, these markets are doing something different at all times.

Yes, right now, for the most part, most of them right now, the median house price is declining.

And I say that in air quotes because I'm going to explain what it actually means and what's actually happening.

But keep in mind, still Darwin and still Hobart are actually increasing in value.

Their median prices are actually still growing.

It's always about the enormous pressure on the Department of Infrastructure to undertake this sort of work.

As we know, nothing happens quickly in the Northern Territory, particularly outside of Darwin.

So we have to stand in a queue like we do for a lot of things.

But it's also about funding too.

Well, certainly the Health Services Union have brought it to the fore in the last 24 hours.

They're calling for urgent action over serious workplace health and safety concerns across Northern Territory facilities.

including suspected reoccurring mould at Casuarina Plaza up here, but widespread mould at the Alice Springs Hospital and pathology workers being exposed to odours from decomposing bodies at Royal Darwin Hospital's morgue.

Let's focus on Alice Springs.

What is making news headlines this morning?

Well, two teenagers have been arrested after they escaped corrections custody at the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin yesterday.

At around 2.50pm, police received a report that two teens aged 16 and 18 had escaped.

Several police units responded and the youths were tracked down and arrested 30 minutes later.

Police confirmed a credible threat had been received towards a local business in the mall originating from an interstate person and not from the Northern Territory.

Investigators are now endeavouring to track down the responsible culprit.

And on a couple of the health issues that have been raised this week, Wolfie, the Health Minister has confirmed the privacy breach involving pregnant patients at Royal Darwin Hospital has been referred to the Public Information Commissioner and the Police Commissioner to determine whether any criminal offence have occurred.

Also, the number of patients understood to have been impacted by the breach has climbed to 12.

It's alleged he assaulted the 47-year-old woman when the pair were driving together through Palmerston on September 18.

The woman suffered two stab wounds to her chest and passed away on September 28 at Royal Darwin Hospital.

The man was originally charged with acts intended to cause serious harm, but has had his charge upgraded to murder when he appeared in Darwin Local Court yesterday.

He's been remanded in custody.

Two teenagers have been arrested after they escaped corrections custody at the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin yesterday.

At around 2.50pm, police received a report that two teens aged 16 and 18 had escaped.

Several police units responded and the youths were tracked down and arrested 30 minutes later.

A bit of copycatting.

He obviously performed immediately.

What that did was give him some momentum leading into his wild card rides, you know, with his own, with the Australian KTM racing team for China and for Darwin, uh, performed really well in both of those.

Obviously, there wasn't a lot of depth in the flyaways and some injuries and stuff, but I don't necessarily think it was the result.

It was more just so the potential, the outright speed that Byron was able to show in adapting to racing at that level it's obviously caught the eye of KTM.

You hope that Byron kind of follows the lead more so of Jed Beaton and those riders before him.

Yeah, absolutely.

I remember speaking with Byron at the last round of the motocross there at QNP where he sort of broke some of the news that he was going to be heading over and doing these few races before the Australian GP up there in Darwin.

And he said to me the intention for the future was to be over there.

So, yeah.

And when we left the roadhouse, we took them with us to Darwin because I wasn't leaving them there.

So, yeah.

How many did you have?

So

how did you end up at the Territory Wildlife Park?

When we left Laramie, we moved to Darwin and prior to us finally getting there, I answered an ad for Territory Wildlife Park.

We're looking for some casual guides.

And I'm always really curious about what it is that essentialises those things.

I mean, you know, Anne, you grew up at Darwin and, you know, you don't go to somewhere like Darwin and every single thing about Darwin is telling you you are in Darwin, right? The heat is...

You know, the kind of just the quality of the air, the trees, you know, you're looking at some goanna going across the street.

The sheer volume of sweat.

For example, you know, you asked me why I want to live in regional Australia.

I mean, we have these amazing experiences.

And then, you know, all those incredible experiences down in the north, in the southwest when we were doing Nalak Kaur Bhoja and all of those long conversations with, you know, aunties over cups of tea talking about, their days on the mission and all of the, you know, there's so much that's really rich and extraordinary about being in a community, a smaller community and diving in and getting your hands dirty that, you know, a Metro-based festival director never gets that kind of, excitement or that kind of experience and build those sorts of relationships with communities so I feel very fortunate the same thing happened in Tasmania you know what it's like in Darwin you just find yourself in these extraordinary around these extraordinary campfires and it's life it's a fantastic thing of life but I do I want to ask you some things I was thinking about festivals and I'm thinking about I've done my last festival thank you very much but I was thinking about the great privilege of programming and the things that stay with you over the years, the pieces of art that stay with you.

And I tried to set myself a task of choosing my three favourite things.

Alice Springs, showers increasing, storms 32.

Darwin, showers, possible storm 34.

Perth, mostly sunny, 29.

Kalgoorlie, partly cloudy, 27.