The Northern Territory Police Association has called the Finocchiaro Government’s law and order budget preview an insult to officers who “continue to feel abandoned and undervalued” by a government with “warped priorities”, and which did not provide a figure for how much it will spend on police next year as part of its crime reduction plan.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro, who is also the Police Minister, this morning announced a combined total 2025-26 budget for NT Police, and the Corrections and Attorney-General’s departments of $1.34 billion, which she said was $112 million more than Labor’s last budget.
Your headline has a typo. It should read: ‘Lawlessness and Disorder Budget’
Oops, we found another mistake.
When you wrote ‘while a 150-bed work camp in Darwin, and another 50-bed work camp elsewhere in the NT will be built by the fourth quarter of 2026’, it should read:
‘while a 150-bed not going to work camp in Darwin, and another 50-bed no evidence to suggest this will work either camp elsewhere in the NT will be built by the fourth quarter of 2026, so that our private prisons mates and lobbyists get richer quicker at the expense of any real long term strategy to tackle poverty, disadvantage, crime, lack of opportunities and social disconnectedness.’
You’re welcome.
Speaking of “the wasteful allocation of $60 million”, how is that prosecution of $60 million IEPS fraud coming along there LiaR?