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http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/05/12/320773_ntnews.html



EIGHTEEN Vietnamese asylum seekers were recaptured after a mass breakout from a high-security detention centre in Darwin, and four men remain at large after a daring midnight escape.


The Immigration Department refused to comment on how the 18 men escaped from Northern Immigration Detention Centre on Friday night.
It was the second breakout from a Darwin facility in four days.


Spokesman Sandi Logan said immigration officials had demanded an explanation from security provider Serco.


"The department will commission a full independent review into the escapes," Mr Logan said.
"We want to know how this occurred and what steps need to be taken to avoid a repeat."






NT Police - who have ramped up the power to respond to immigration emergencies - had caught all of the men by about noon yesterday, as 21 Vietnamese detainees were taken from Darwin to Manus Island.
It is unknown whether the fear of offshore processing fuelled their peers' escape.

   Damn funny! ... AND TRUE!

["We believe that the heroin, specifically, was coming from Vietnam and this group of people used some of their links that they had back to Vietnam to assist them with their activities," Mr Dickson said]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/arrested-as-police-smash-south-australian-drugs-ring/story-e6frea83-1226639541790
During the operation, clandestine laboratories at Rosewater and Renown Park were also discovered, while luxury cars including two BMWs, a Mercedes and a Porsche had been seized.
"We believe that the heroin, specifically, was coming from Vietnam and this group of people used some of their links that they had back to Vietnam to assist them with their activities," Mr Dickson said     
      
Assistant Commissioner Paul Dickson said Operation Elixir, which began in June last year, had led to the seizure of 2.2kg of methamphetamine, 145g of heroin, 500g of cocaine and $185,170 in cash.
"This operation has been significant. It will put a great dent into the organised activities of these individuals," he said.

"There's somewhere between 25,000 to 30,000 street deals that we have been able to knock out of the community, which is significant."
Mr Dickson said the group imported heroin and methamphetamine from Vietnam.

[DARWIN business owners say there has been a sharp increase in public drunkenness since the Government scrapped the banned drinker register.]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/10/18/314422_ntnews.html
DARWIN business owners say there has been a sharp increase in public drunkenness since the Government scrapped the banned drinker register.
At least four businesses in the small Fannie Bay complex, which is a known trouble hot spot, say they have noticed the change.
Chief Minister Terry Mills yesterday rejected criticism of his decision to scrap Labor's Banned Drinker Register.
He said barring nasty drunks from buying takeaway grog had not worked.
"Those with a drinking problem will always find ways to access alcohol,'' he said.
Captain Seafood Takeaway owner Tim Copping, 64, who has worked in the area for more than 20 years, said trouble had hit an all time low in the last four months of the BDR...

[THE woman who allegedly shot her ex-spouse and his mother with a revolver in a dispute over a child is expected to make a bail application next week, a court has heard.]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/05/09/320689_ntnews.html

THE woman who allegedly shot her ex-spouse and his mother with a revolver in a dispute over a child is expected to make a bail application next week, a court has heard.
The 38-year-old woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her child, sat in the dock at Darwin Magistrates Court facing a string of serious offences.
She has been charged with three counts of attempted murder, recklessly endangering life, two counts of causing serious harm, abducting a child, deprivation of liberty, breaking into a house with criminal intent, assault and firearms charges.

She was supported in court by at least eight family members, including her mother and partner.
The mother-of-two allegedly had an altercation with her ex-spouse's mother at a Virginia property before both women got into one car and drove down Lowther Rd.

As they drove along the road, the woman's ex-spouse was coming in the other direction before both cars stopped.    This is where the woman allegedly shot the older woman.




I read the original in the paper and an "Aboriginal Legal rights" mob were there to assist her. It just doesn't state it in this version.