Gunner’s leadership in strife after party rebuffs his call to expel disgraced MLA

Mar 9, 2021 | News, NT Politics | 0 comments

ANALYSIS: The Territory Labor Party’s stinging rejection of an order from its leader has delivered the biggest blow to Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s leadership in four-and-a-half years and has cast doubt over his ability to retain support for the top job. The...

Building regulation reforms proposed following engineering debacle

Mar 5, 2021 | Business, News | 4 comments

Commercial builders in the NT will have to be registered and engineering audits will be increased, as part of proposed sweeping reforms to the Territory’s building industry in the wake of a debacle that saw more than 200 unit owners affected by “incompetent or...

Assistant police commissioner resigned after relationship with female colleague exposed

Mar 2, 2021 | Cops | 6 comments

NT Police assistant commissioner Michael Hebb’s abrupt resignation has been revealed as relating to a relationship he was carrying out with a female staff member. Sources told the NT Independent the matter had become “very well known” in police and political circles...

‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Gunner’s leadership questioned over persistent cover-up allegations

Mar 2, 2021 | News, NT Politics | 4 comments

Chief Minister Michael Gunner continues to remain silent over the extent of his government’s involvement in attempting to cover up the ‘cocaine sex scandal’ that continues to plague his leadership – even as fresh evidence has emerged in recent days...

ABC interview segment with ‘cocaine sex scandal’ woman altered at Labor MLA’s request: texts

Mar 1, 2021 | News, NT Politics | 2 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A portion of an ABC Radio interview segment involving the woman at the centre of the Labor cocaine sex scandal that detailed politically damaging sexual comments, did not air because Labor MLA Mark Turner ordered that it be cut, new text messages reveal....