CLP open up $15 billion debt ceiling amid fiscal pressures | NT Independent

CLP open up $15 billion debt ceiling amid fiscal pressures

by | Feb 4, 2025 | Business, News, NT Politics, Subscriber | 7 comments

The CLP Government will plunge the Territory into further debt rather than find necessary cost savin
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7 Comments

  1. Scratching my head here. The only thing I can think of is that they’re hoping Dutton wins and we can get a bailout from Canberra.

  2. 1. Why is Northern Territory public service non executive employment permanency (secure employment) rate only at 71.5 per cent when in the Commonwealth Public Service, employment permanency is at 91.8 per cent?
    2. Why are around one in every three non executive employees in the Northern Territory public service in fixed term / casual non permanency employment positions?
    3. Did over 12,000 Northern Territory public servants finish up their employment in the NT public service over the last two years?
    4. Is the turn over rate and recruitment rate of new employees every year high in the NT public service?
    5. What are the number of individual independent contractors on ABNs hired by the NT public service?
    6. What are the number of employees in the NT public service employed by external labour hire firms?
    7. Does the NT public service annual wages bill of $3.1 billion a year include the expenditure of individual independent contractors on ABNs and employees employed by external labour hire firms?
    7. Are these factors contributing to the high ballooning costs in NT public service expenditures and contributing to low and stagnating NT population growth and low and stagnating economic activity in the Northern Territory?
    8. Will this new NT CLP Government now address these human resources management practices in the Northern Territory public service –
    a. By increasing non executive employment permanency to no less than 90 per cent.
    b. That a genuine efficiency review of the actual number of individual independent contractors on ABNs that are needed is conducted.
    c. That a genuine efficiency review of employees employed by external labour hire firms that are needed is also conducted.
    This is so that efficiencies and real savings can be made and turn over rates in the NT public service employment numbers can be stabilised.

  3. OMG The last lot where a 2 Term Government with 3 Chief Ministers at the end of the term.
    The current administration will be a One term Government with 18 different Chief Ministers by the end of it!

    What do you mean the CLP cannot cut
    the 28000 sized Public Service
    PLUS Professional Contractors
    PLUS Labour Hire staff
    PLUS People working on ABN’s (so they dont count as headcount , PowerWater, you have this down pat).

    Question: What are these 28000 public servants doing exactly? I see busy Doctors and Nurses at RDH, I see cops going from call out to call out, I see Teachers busy teaching kids and managing the very important parents. I see several different layers of Government funded security in the city. What about everyone else? The Administration stream of NTG is massive!

    What about Pay Cuts? Surely the NTG can lower the 30-40% pay difference between a low stress NTG job and a similiar work-like-mad private industry job?

    Will the broke a$$ Lia Finocchiaro Government claw back the $60 million from the Fraudulent IES scheme , which included several of their main political donators?

    The NT has simply swapped a bunch of incompetents for another bunch of incompetents!

  4. Anyone understand economics?

    • Don Fuller, go check out the high level work experience and qualifications of the current Treasurer!
      If you dont find anything…..don’t be surprised.

  5. A 15 billion dollar debt is not a problem if you have the income to service it
    The last mob spent their entire time giving away money on a no return basis whilst trying to ban every kind of industry that turns a profit
    We need gas, mining, enhanced agriculture and companies to invest in manufacturing.
    All of which was stalled or at very best had money invested into dodgy fly by night companies
    How about we have a crack at taking a proportionate share of the billions going out of the Territory and reinvesting it into growth both in town and on communities

  6. One has to have the capacity to make money to spend it. I don’t see much in the way of income anywhere around the Territory. Very easy to spend, the NT will never get out of hock.

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