Darwin Council is still withholding records on the controversial Cyclone Tracy memorial’s design selection two years after an FOI application was filed, citing a non-existent provision of the Information Act to justify its refusal, while the Information Commissioner has yet to resolve a cyclone survivor’s complaint after 22 months.
The sculpture cost the community $535,000, with a total project cost of $700,000, including landscaping. It was supposed to commemorate Cyclone Tracy, which destroyed Darwin in 1974 and killed 66 people, but former lord mayor Kon Vatskalis later publicly denied it was a memorial at least six times, calling it a piece of public art.
It is time 2024-2026 CLP Minister for Local Government Steve Edgington man up & place the 2026 City of Darwin CEO, LM and Councillors into administration for a rigorous financial and pysco/social bullying using Code of Conduct & Trespass notices. Management & staff use ubiquitous SLAPP Laws against ratepayers to censor free speech & stop public consultation. Commercial in confidence contracts are being awarded in secret. Darwin ratepayers need transparency & accountability.
Has the FOI delay got anything to do with:
-The abysmal absenteeism rate at City of Dodgy?
-is that 20 (Twenty) City of Dodgy employees on Personal Improvement Plans?
Remember thats your rates the incompetent management is setting fire to.
I wonder what my fiscally prudent council spends on legal advice annually
What a load of rubbish. Mr Shoyer get the job done. Who are they protecting? Council staff or councillors. May they are waiting for us to all pass on:)
Mark- the sad truth is no-one in the Information Commissioner’s office, the senior echelons of the NTPS, or decision makers appointed under the FOI Act has the courage to release information inimical to the government’s interests. Mr Shoyer was perceived as a safe pair of hands when he was appointed to head the Integrity and Ethics Commission. When the truth comes out about the deeply flawed process that led to Mr Shoyer’s appointment, and it will, resume’s will be dusted off in the most senior levels of government.
Unveiling of controversial artwork to remember Cyclone Tracy after 50 years draws outcry from survivors.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-15/nt-cyclone-tracy-survivors-lash-50-year-monument-plans/104597288
These inefficiencies strike to core of the rot in NTG
I know why shoyerdl was picked
Yes man