The Gunner Government quietly dropped a budget reform progress update Thursday night that shows major recommendations are not being met.
NT economy to bounce back quicker than the rest of the country, despite massive job losses: Gunner
Chief Minister Michael Gunner says the NT’s economy will “rebound” post-coronavirus quicker than everywhere else, even as new federal figures estimate more than 21,000 jobs are expected to be lost, while wages plummet.
Gunner using COVID-19 pandemic to ‘shift blame’ for financial figures: Senator
Chief Minister Michael Gunner is “misleading” Territorians about his inability to present a clear picture of the Territory’s finances before the August election, says Senator Sam McMahon.
Fears the Territory is ‘trading insolvent’ as Gunner rejects calls to open the books
Crossbench MLAs say the Gunner Government has a duty to Territorians to come clean about the state of the Territory’s finances, with some expressing fears the Territory is already bankrupt.
Turf Club grandstand project ‘unlikely’ to increase race-day attendance: internal report
EXCLUSIVE: The Darwin Turf Club’s controversial $12 million taxpayer-funded grandstand project was “unlikely” to increase visitors to the Northern Territory, according to an internal planning document obtained by the NT Independent.
Cattlemen’s Association boss Ashley Manicaros secretly seeks CLP preselection nod
EXCLUSIVE: A “secret candidate” rumored to be running for the Country Liberal Party’s Port Darwin preselection is NT Cattlemen’s Association CEO Ashley Manicaros, the NT Independent can reveal.
No new cases of COVID-19 in more than a week, businesses to stay shut as testing questions raised
The NT Health Minister says no plans to increase COVID-19 testing in the Northern Territory, despite other states expanding theirs.
Government COVID-19 spending to undergo scrutiny; election still on for August
The Gunner Government’s emergency COVID-19 cash splash to undergo scrutiny after delaying budget and scrapping Estimates hearings for the year.
Gunner moves potential coronavirus carriers after feeling heat
Chief Minister Michael Gunner ordered the removal of potential COVID-19 carriers from a luxury residential building half way through their quarantine because he felt they should be in a “more traditional hotel situation”.
AFP officers arrived on commercial flights, not quarantined before sent to remote communities
Members of the AFP’s Northern Territory contingent to protect remote communities arrived on the same commercial flights as dozens of quarantined civilians.
‘We want them out!’: Burke on government-Halikos quarantine deal
The Gunner Government is still refusing to release a list of hotels and other properties they are forcing coronavirus quarantined people into, even as health concerns are raised about the use of a Halikos Group-owned private residence.
Another case of COVID-19 from Qantas Sydney flight brings NT total to 28
A woman in her 30s who returned to Darwin on a Qantas Sydney flight becomes the second known case from same domestic flight.