Barkly councillors have refused to comment on potential conflicts of interest in suppressing a legal report into allegations of bullying, harassment and mismanagement at Barkly Regional Council, which former employees who were part of the investigation say will show substantial governance failures.
The state of the council, and its future have been amplified in the wake of the NT Independent revealing two videos last Friday and Saturday taken in Tennant Creek, believed to be made in August, of Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin pinning a 12-year-old Indigenous boy to the ground while another man threatens to bash and kill him.
Only the media are wanting to boot him, everybody else says GOOD ON YA