Dream Media’s Chris O’Brien and former commercial, now recreational fisher Peter Politis says the closure of 85 per cent of the NT coastline has caused major problems for all stakeholders, who they claim all want to phase out gillnetting

Katherine Mayor Lis Clark says rates are increasing 4.8 per cent this financial year so the Council can cover its costs, with a new pool and dog pound and repairs to the Civic Centre roof among the major projects

Member for Solomon Luke Gosling says the country needs an extra 20,000 Defence personnel by 2040 and is looking to foreign citizens from partner nations who’ve been permanent residents for at least a year to fill the shortfall