The woman at the centre of an alleged cocaine-fuelled sex party involving Labor members says she was carrying on a relationship with an MLA but that he did not engage in cocaine in her presence. The revelations come as the NT Independent can confirm police are investigating.
UPDATED: Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro used Question Time to call on the Chief Minister to rule out that a staffer and a politician are the people involved in an alleged cocaine-fuelled sex party, but Mr Gunner maintained his position of not acknowledging the allegations.
Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro has called on Chief Minister Michael Gunner to publicly address “serious allegations involving members of [his] Territory Labor party” after accusations of drug use and sexual escapades became public, but Mr Gunner says he’s too busy dealing with COVID-19.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner took Territorians through a confusing explanation of his government’s plan to tackle ongoing crime issues on Friday, saying consequences are necessary to punish crime but that making it tougher to get bail shouldn’t be one of them.
Thousands of Territorians have had their personal and business emails released in a data-breaching mass email sent by the Health Department in relation to the government’s COVID-19 Territory Check In app.
The Gunner Government has refused to disclose if Labor ministers paid their family members to provide childcare services through a $5,000 childcare reimbursement entitlement, claiming that disclosing how they spend the taxpayer money would be an “unreasonable interference with their privacy”.
Startling new research that has revealed the extent of Darwin kids’ anxieties about crime in their communities needs to be addressed by the Gunner Government, say Opposition and independent MLAs, as questions swirl over why CDU did not publicly release the research.
Darwin students – some as young as five – told researchers they are “scared” to walk home by themselves, that they worry about people “drinking and fighting outside on the street”, and that they harbour fears “of people breaking into our home and attacking us”.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner needs to explain to Territorians why he repeatedly refused to release the details of a secret education agreement he signed with China until last week, the CLP Opposition says.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s secret China agreement is not a “sister cities” arrangement as he previously claimed, but it does obligate the Northern Territory Government to “promote closer relations” with China, newly disclosed documents reveal.
EXCLUSIVE: Territory taxpayers were charged more than $300,000 to fit out a new electorate office for a Gunner Government minister five months before the election through a contract that did not go to public tender, recently released government documents show.
EXCLUSIVE: Australian and foreign military officials and their families on board an international flight scheduled to land in Darwin today will quarantine at an undisclosed local hotel instead of the international quarantine facility at Howard Springs, the NT Independent can reveal.
