Darwin Council candidate Andrew Lee says he has no current links to Chinese-owned Landbridge Group and has “disconnected [his] connections” to China in recent years, following an SA Ombudsman’s investigation into his dealings with the owner of the Darwin Port while serving on a South Australian city council.
EXCLUSIVE: Labor’s candidate for the Daly by-election allegedly threatened an MLA outside Parliament House in February while working as a ministerial staffer in an incident that Attorney General Selena Uibo said at the time “in no way reflects the values of our Labor government”.
The father of a 14-year-old boy who had his skull fractured and was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after an unprovoked and “sickening attack” at Casuarina shopping centre over the weekend, says the government needs to take immediate action to keep the public safe from young offenders.
UPDATED: Chief Minister Michael Gunner has insulted frontline pandemic workers and should “apologise immediately” for once again politicising the global COVID-19 pandemic to win votes, says the union representing the Territory’s police officers.
The by-election in the electorate of Daly to replace CLP MLA Ian Sloan will be held on September 11, but confusion remains over how the date was selected, which appears to have caught the CLP by surprise.
Despite Territory politicians being listed by the Chief Health Officer as “essential workers” during a lockdown, parliamentary sittings have been cancelled this week with no make-up dates currently planned.
A 15-year-old has been charged with attempted rape and other sexual offences involving a series of Katherine break-ins spanning the last two years, which the NT Police executive and media team appear not to have publicly reported when the first incident occurred in November 2019.
EXCLUSIVE: Serious misconduct allegations against NT Supreme Court Justice Stephen Southwood should result in his “removal as a judge”, says a prominent Darwin lawyer who has filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General.
The Gunner Government has killed a motion in Parliament that would have seen the $12 million grandstand grant to the Darwin Turf Club that the ICAC found was “affected by political donations” debated publicly, in what the Opposition called an “extraordinary abuse of power” to avoid scrutiny.
Leader of Government Business Natasha Fyles has been “offended” in Parliament again, this time after Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro suggested the Gunner Government does not have the “capacity” to make decisions itself, has “fobbed off questions” and were “smug”.
Retired ICAC Ken Fleming has been referred to Parliament’s disciplinary committee by the Chief Minister for comments he made regarding a former employee at Estimates hearings in June, in an urgent motion that took precedence over all other business in Parliament this morning.
Brett Dixon’s fight to remain on the Darwin Turf Club board will have consequences for members of all clubs and boards across the Northern Territory, as Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s office insisted yesterday that the Associations Act will be amended to give the government the power to terminate directors at its discretion.
