The Alice Springs business owner who exposed the full extent of the town’s crime crisis on a national stage through social media has announced he’ll be stepping away from the Action for Alice Facebook page for an indefinite period, following revelations the NT Police Minister took legal action against him over a post.
A senior NT Police detective has been accused of “criminal conduct”, including withholding and manipulating evidence, while playing a key role in the Zach Rolfe murder charge investigation, a formal complaint filed with the acting Police Commissioner alleges.
EXCLUSIVE: The raid on Halikos Group’s Darwin office was part of an extensive Australian Taxation Office investigation into allegations of tax fraud, high-level sources familiar with the investigation have told the NT Independent.
Police Minister Kate Worden hired a lawyer to threaten to sue Action for Alice Facebook page administrator Darren Clark over comments he published about his first meeting with her, the NT Independent understands, which Ms Worden told Estimates this morning she paid for herself.
Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler lost her temper during Estimates on Wednesday after the Opposition asked if absent DIPL chief executive Andrew Kirkman had resigned from the role after his no-show at the public hearing.
Amid a stalled ICAC investigation into former chief minister Michael Gunner’s alleged travel rorts during the 2020 election, a former Labor president and senior adviser to three chief ministers has called on the Fyles Government to work with the Opposition and independent MLAs to end the misuse of public money for political purposes.
EXCLUSIVE: Darwin Mayor Kon Vatskalis’s “cooperation agreements” with Chinese government officials have been called into question after it was revealed in an internal CDU email that his wife is the current director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Confucius Institute, following years of public denials she had any connections to the organisation.
Territory Labor has attempted to expel MLA Mark Turner from the party for not following its rules, however in a cruel twist of irony for the party and its president, internal documents show Territory Labor has not followed its own rules in the dismissal.
The Chief Minister and other senior government officials secretly met with the Chinese Ambassador to Australia in Darwin to reportedly discuss a “willingness to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields”, the Chinese state media reported, while the Fyles Government did not publicly disclose the meeting to Territorians.
EXCLUSIVE: The independent body that determines NT politicians’ salaries and benefits has refused to explain how two Labor MLAs were able to charge taxpayers for personal holidays on their government fuel cards through a benefit scheme that does not appear to exist.
A senior CLP pollie sent a hand-written birthday note to one of the Territory’s most notorious murderers with government resources, wishing him a “very special birthday” and a “happy 58th”. FIND OUT WHO HERE.
The Darwin Turf Club was quietly given more than $4 million of taxpayer funds from the NT’s peak racing body to prop up its Silks club bar last year, according to internal financial documents, which also show the lounge has been unable to pay its debts of $70,000 a month and continues to operate at a loss, the NT Independent can reveal.
