'Loaded-up party budget': Extra $1m to 'support' Administrator; another $2m for exclusive events | NT Independent

‘Loaded-up party budget’: Extra $1m to ‘support’ Administrator; another $2m for exclusive events

by | May 14, 2026 | News, NT Politics, Subscriber | 4 comments

The Finocchiaro CLP Government has inexplicably chosen “canapes over cost-of-living relief” for Territorians in last week’s budget, critics say, after directing an additional $1 million to controversial Administrator David Connolly’s office and a further $2 million it didn’t have last year to Protocol NT – the body that organises official government functions and special invite-only events.

The inflated figures were disclosed in the Department of Chief Minister and Cabinet budget papers, which shows the government upped a budgeted $3.1 million for what was listed as “support to the Administrator” to $4.1 million this year, with the figure raised to $4.2 million next financial year.

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4 Comments

    • Mate!
      Absolutely forget about complaining in the NT about the quality of medical service or anything in general.

      The Best Strategy for Medical Treatment in the NT is to go elsewhere! The further the better!

      There are superb Dentists at fractions of the cost in Bali and in Bangkok!
      There are superb Medical Practitioners and Clinics, which leave the medical care in Australia for dead, at fractions of the cost in Bangkok!

      Or
      QANTAS Darwin 2 Adelaide 6am and 3.45pm!

  1. I swear everyone linked to this party looks like they’ve been awake for three days arguing with strangers in Facebook comments.

  2. Would you not think, in light of the crushing Clueless Gunner Labor Debt, the current cost of living crisis, that a fiscally prudent CLP Government would CUT some expenditure to pay down debt?

    Quote:< “This is no CLP Administration! Its a Labour Administration.”
    Former CLP Old Boy Minister.

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