The once donation-rich Country Liberal Party, fuelled with big cash from big and small NT businesses for decades, is now dependent on contributions from its own candidates to keep it afloat in the lead up to the August election, donation disclosures reveal.
The NT Government awarded 23 tenders to a total value of almost $9 million in the last week, including $636,000 to Halikos Hospitality for accommodation for the Department of Health, a contract that was not put to open tender. Read here to see the full summary.
COW-A-BUNGA: The high-flying senior NT bureaucrat who charged taxpayers for a trip to Disney World late last year also charged Territorians $12,500 for a week-long trip to Hawaii earlier this year to attend a three-day conference, the NT Independent can reveal.
The City of Darwin’s online local business-boosting scheme dubbed “myDarwin” is set to broaden its reach across the Territory with a funding pool worth $1 million, the NT Government has announced.
EXCLUSIVE: The Territory’s second-most powerful public servant took a taxpayer funded excursion to Disney World while on a mysterious trip to the United States late last year that he now claims will be reimbursed to taxpayers, the NT Independent can reveal.
In the last week the NT Government has released thirteen tenders, including one to do drug and alcohol testing for Power and Water Corporation for a year and a tender to replace the roof on a 9 million litre water tank. The tenders consist of six building tenders, three electrical and or mechanical, one civil, one information technology, one miscellaneous, and one supply and delivery tender. Click here to read the full list of tenders released this week.
Australia’s largest taxi network – 13cabs – has begun introducing its taxi fleet to the Darwin community, providing an alternative transportation option in the region.
The CLP has pledged to fast-track the development of a Middle Arm “industrial complex” to facilitate a new NT manufacturing industry, which it says will be created after ramping up fracking operations in the Northern Territory.
The NT Government awarded 25 tenders to a total value of over $5 million in the last week, including a $1 million contract to supply and install furniture in the Katherine Government Centre and a $1.4 million contract to design and construct a new accommodation building at the Seven Emu Station. Click here to read the full summary.
The onshore gas industry will not fix the Northern Territory’s failing economy and continuing to subsidise it will hinder the post-pandemic economic rebuild, energy industry financial experts warn.
In the last week the NT Government has released eleven tenders, including one to consult on Power and Water’s ‘enterprise strategic direction’. Read the full list of tenders here.
The Room to Breathe program has been so poorly administered that the government cannot properly “assess whether its objectives are being achieved economically, efficiently and effectively”, the Auditor General has found.
