Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has claimed in a statement amid a growing shares scandal that her grandmother bought her what would become Woodside Energy shares in 1985, and that she has recorded them on her parliamentary Register of Members’ Interests for years – which has been contradicted by parliamentary records that show she did not declare any shares until after the last election.
The Fyles Government has released its water allocation plan for the Georgina and Wiso basins, which was a requirement to permit fracking in the Beetaloo basin, but the government has manipulated the aquifer re-fill data produced by a hydrologist it employed, to only include the last 50 years, which is skewed by an extremely large recharge caused by Cyclone Tracy.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles must immediately divest her shares in gas giant Woodside Energy or abstain from any further Cabinet discussions and public promotion of the Middle Arm industrial precinct, a leading national integrity expert says, amid a growing political storm for the Territory Labor leader.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ shares in gas giant Woodside Energy – a proponent of the Labor Government’s proposed Middle Arm precinct – will be examined as part of the upcoming Senate inquiry into the multi-billion dollar gas development, an independent Senator says.
Palmerston Council must spend $76,500 to improve safety as part of an enforceable undertaking it agreed to in exchange for having nine charges dropped that were laid after the near-drowning of a worker in 2020, NT Work Safe said.
Today’s national news includes Peter Dutton seeking a national cabinet meeting, more funding for Indigenous-managed land and sea areas, ATO ramping up pressure on directors issuing more penalty notices and disclosure notices, and El Nino may bring on power outages.
Fishing tangle bins are being installed across popular fishing spots in the Darwin and Palmerston region to keep the waterways clean from discarded fishing waste.
The Fyles Government’s “summer plan” to reduce crime in Central Australia is “the definition of madness” for continuing to do the same things, Alice Springs independent MLA Robyn Lambley has said, while the government is promising an “additional” 50 police officers along with a set of initiatives believed to already be in effect.
NT Police are calling for witnesses in relation to a single-vehicle crash that occurred just outside Jabiru Monday morning that caused serious injuries to a “male youth” who was driving.
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Natasha Fyles currently holds an undisclosed number of shares in an oil and gas giant backing the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct, raising concerns by critics that her private business interests could affect her government’s policy decisions around gas development, the NT Independent can reveal.
The Fyles Government has announced a new three-year deal with Gold Coast and Melbourne to play three AFL games a year in the Territory, but has refused to say how much Territorians are paying the clubs, while the Tasmanian government has revealed it will pay Hawthorn nearly $1.7 million per game in Launceston from next year.
Land rights advocate and nine-term NT Land Council board member, including four as its chair, and the NT’s Australian of the Year Dr Bush-Blanasi died on Sunday at 61.
