'Just business as usual': Racing Minister casts doubts over review of conflicts at wagering commission | NT Independent

‘Just business as usual’: Racing Minister casts doubts over review of conflicts at wagering commission

by | Oct 14, 2025 | News, Subscriber | 6 comments

Racing Minister Marie-Clare Boothby has caused confusion over her government’s claims it is re
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6 Comments

  1. What bad deeds did the people of the NT do, to be punished with Marie-Claire Boothby? She can barely string a sentence together, let alone regulate a multi-billion dollar industry or function as an effective legislator. Words fail me.

    • The answer your seeking is “She is not a threat to the leadership to She Who Must Be Obeyed”.
      Thats why the NT has:
      -a Hair Dresser in charge of Education (with Australia’s poorest educational outcomes)
      -a Financial Services Receptionist (Boothby) in charge of Australias most challenged law and order jurisdiction (while there are 2 other CLP MLA’s with Law backgrounds)
      -a Legal Background MLA in charge of Health
      -a Health Background MLA in charge of Business!
      -A Zero Education Nobody in charge of the super important and vital Treasury!

      Highly qualified MLAs where kept to the backbenches was the damning decision the Its-All-About-Me-Chief-Minister made!

      Statistically, you could not come up with this perfect scenario of clueless MLA’s struggling to grasp their foreign portfolio of responsibilities.
      The CLP will beat the Gunner/Fyles/Manison multi billion debt disaster government for worst government ever….prepare for Greens/Independent run NTG in September 2028!

      Maybe they can repurpose a empty Museum for the CLP history of corruption and dodgy dealings:
      Aquascene, free land for friends, drunken tax payer funded nights at Charlies and Pente,
      overlooking qualified people to run the Waterfront so some losers clueless son could run it, just as a reminder.

      In the 80s IBM, then the worlds largest company, could not win a NT tender as they are not allowed to donate to political parties whilst a local 5 man IT company, donating like crazy, was winning most NTG IT contracts!

      Anyone want to add to that list of dodgy/questionable decision making and outright corruption?

  2. If the Attorney Generally Rubbish’s comments weren’t so dangerously incompetent and incoherent they might actually be funny.

    This Political Pantomime will never end if we stick to continually voting in the CLPALP Alliance.

    We could easily be laughing so hard at a Territory Labor AG who didn’t have a clue what they were doing either. Right, Selena Stays Silent?

    Lucio, if you want to see the changes to the PSEMA your work requires then join our movement for Change.

    Any other Independents who want to Change NT GOV For Better at the next election, contact the real Change Agents:

    https://changeforbetter.party

    We’ll turn your dreams of banishing the Boothbys and the Boofbys of the world forever into reality.

    They we’ll clean out the TICK infestation currently limiting and holding back the NT.

    We’ll show all you naysayers out there how to run a Government properly.

    And how to speak in coherent sentences.

  3. The Standards in the Northern Territory remind me of a third world Banana Republic and also Parkinson’s law as explained by the economist Cyril Northcote Parkinson in his famous best seller book “Parkinson’s Law” in 1957 about public service administration and management.

    • Parkinson’s Law (1957), in which Parkinson advanced the eponymous law stating that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”

  4. Maybe Four Corners, in cooperation with NT Independent ,get invited back to expose the whole corrupt shooting match .

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