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“Ms Finocchiaro told Mix 104.9 radio on November 10 that her government’s pick to be the 24th administrator had been “on the Prime Minister’s desk since June, and I still haven’t heard back”. “
IF anyone was wondering how important the NT, the NT Government is to the current Labor Federal Government….here is a great example!
After a lot of research into NT Administer-select, David Connolly’s adult life, I haven’t really found a lot of useful or detailed information. The main source for his varied agricultural roles around Australia is from a 2021 article on the Beef Central website (https://www.beefcentral.com/news/connolly-set-to-takes-reins-as-ntca-president/) when he became NTCA president. It’s a rambling article with no information as to his age or how many years spent in the NT. He was dismissed by AAco in 2009. Again, there’s little to no details of whether Mr Connolly lived in the NT then. Mr Connolly apparently worked ‘with a large scale international agricultural investment fund’ (in 2012/13 ??) overseeing ‘the raising of funds and the acquisition of livestock assets in Chile, New Zealand and Australia, which included purchasing Tanumbirini from Stirling Buntine and Forest Hill from Peter Schubert for the Australian (?? UK-based) business, Thames Pastoral Company’ (which then sold these to a South African family). Allan Myers (a Melbourne-based lawyer and businessman), the lessee of Tipperary, Litchfield and Douglas West Stations in the NT hired him in 2015 to be general manager of Tipperary Station. NT CM Finnocchiaro states that Mr Connolly’s ‘national roles have earned the trust of people across Australia’. She gives no details of these roles or the people who trust him across Australia. The NT Independent and several Murdoch papers across Australia have published what the NT Government Media Release has also told us of Mr Connolly’s past life and roles. We’re now being asked to accept someone as the top-ranking administrative officer in the NT (next to an equally shady NT Coordinator) and trust someone who hides relevant information to help us trust him. The best our secretive CM can tell us is that he ‘has been shaped by the land ‘ and ‘has stood with Territorians through good seasons and bad’. When I settled in the NT at the beginning of 1974, I loved its open and warm character but I was also made keenly aware of its propensity to accept flashy ‘fly-by-nights’ with shady pasts. I got to know and like many such people. They were honest crooks. They didn’t ask me to trust them. Now, even with extensive internet search tools at hand to find out more about who to accept as trustworthy leaders, I wouldn’t even trust my cotton socks to most of them.
Does anyone know what the NT administrator is paid? What pension they receive at the end of their stint? Why do we need one? Can the massively indebted NT afford one? It seems to me the position is a colonial relic doled out as a reward to friends of the government of the day. Pure window dressing.
“Ms Finocchiaro told Mix 104.9 radio on November 10 that her government’s pick to be the 24th administrator had been “on the Prime Minister’s desk since June, and I still haven’t heard back”. “
IF anyone was wondering how important the NT, the NT Government is to the current Labor Federal Government….here is a great example!
Advocate for cotton growing and regional industry…wonder how accountable he will be when the rivers and springs run dry? Probably not at all!
After a lot of research into NT Administer-select, David Connolly’s adult life, I haven’t really found a lot of useful or detailed information. The main source for his varied agricultural roles around Australia is from a 2021 article on the Beef Central website (https://www.beefcentral.com/news/connolly-set-to-takes-reins-as-ntca-president/) when he became NTCA president. It’s a rambling article with no information as to his age or how many years spent in the NT. He was dismissed by AAco in 2009. Again, there’s little to no details of whether Mr Connolly lived in the NT then.
Mr Connolly apparently worked ‘with a large scale international agricultural investment fund’ (in 2012/13 ??) overseeing ‘the raising of funds and the acquisition of livestock assets in Chile, New Zealand and Australia, which included purchasing Tanumbirini from Stirling Buntine and Forest Hill from Peter Schubert for the Australian (?? UK-based) business, Thames Pastoral Company’ (which then sold these to a South African family). Allan Myers (a Melbourne-based lawyer and businessman), the lessee of Tipperary, Litchfield and Douglas West Stations in the NT hired him in 2015 to be general manager of Tipperary Station.
NT CM Finnocchiaro states that Mr Connolly’s ‘national roles have earned the trust of people across Australia’. She gives no details of these roles or the people who trust him across Australia. The NT Independent and several Murdoch papers across Australia have published what the NT Government Media Release has also told us of Mr Connolly’s past life and roles.
We’re now being asked to accept someone as the top-ranking administrative officer in the NT (next to an equally shady NT Coordinator) and trust someone who hides relevant information to help us trust him. The best our secretive CM can tell us is that he ‘has been shaped by the land ‘ and ‘has stood with Territorians through good seasons and bad’.
When I settled in the NT at the beginning of 1974, I loved its open and warm character but I was also made keenly aware of its propensity to accept flashy ‘fly-by-nights’ with shady pasts. I got to know and like many such people. They were honest crooks. They didn’t ask me to trust them.
Now, even with extensive internet search tools at hand to find out more about who to accept as trustworthy leaders, I wouldn’t even trust my cotton socks to most of them.
Does anyone know what the NT administrator is paid? What pension they receive at the end of their stint? Why do we need one? Can the massively indebted NT afford one?
It seems to me the position is a colonial relic doled out as a reward to friends of the government of the day. Pure window dressing.