Former Darwin councillor Paul Arnold has had another complaint filed against him with NT Police, this time by a sitting councillor who alleges he verbally abused and harassed her at Saturday’s Lyons Ward by-election polling station while appearing to wear an electronic ankle monitoring device.
Labor Speaker Mark Monaghan told Estimates he “certainly didn’t” seek advice from the independent statutory body that sets politicians’ entitlements when he secretly permitted two Labor MLAs to charge taxpayers for their interstate holidays, through what the Opposition called a “rort of the system for their personal gain”.
EXCLUSIVE: Member for Daly Dheran Young charged taxpayers thousands of dollars for a roadtrip back to his hometown in NSW for Christmas, just days after a secret ruling by Labor gave politicians the ability to use their government fuel cards interstate for personal travel.
EXCLUSIVE: Labor MLA Manuel Brown lied about rendering first aid to a woman he killed with his car in 2009, the victim’s family says, while demanding to know why the Chief Minister defended the man who took their mother’s life “as an excellent representative of the community” before she knew the facts of the horrific crash.
EXCLUSIVE: Territory Labor’s candidate for the upcoming Arafura by-election was charged in 2009 and later convicted in relation to killing a woman in Katherine with his car, the NT Independent can reveal.
The Fyles Government largely ignored its own interagency Domestic Violence taskforce’s recommendations on a raft of measures aimed at improving outcomes for victims of domestic violence, including funding only 11 per cent of the required expenditure for necessary programs, internal government documents show.
A CLP politician has accused a Labor backbencher of killing her friend and then changing his name to avoid scrutiny of his shady past. FULL STORY HERE
EXCLUSIVE: Kumanjayi Walker would “most likely” still be alive had NT Police followed proper training and policies in Yuendumu the night of November 9, 2019, a damning internal draft coronial report the Police Commissioner tried to suppress from the public, but obtained by the NT Independent, concluded.
EXCLUSIVE: NT Police officers in Yuendumu lied to the family of Kumanjayi Walker about his condition the night he was fatally shot and refused to provide mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as he lay dying in a police station, a coronial report prepared by the NT Police and obtained by the NT Independent has revealed.
A government leadership seminar advertising the chance to hear former police commissioner Jamie Chalker’s “reflections on his leadership journey” has been cancelled for unknown reasons just days before it was set to occur.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles will reportedly travel to the United States on a nine-day junket to meet with US defence officials and promote the NT’s critical minerals in early September, according to information provided to what appears to be the state media outlet.
Darwin Council and the Mayor’s actions against councillor Amye Un may be unconstitutional, a leading law and politics academic has said, suggesting council has failed to follow proper process for dealing with a simple code of conduct complaint issue that has now exploded into an elected member being barred from attending meetings in person.
