Attorney General Selena Uibo used taxpayer resources to produce a public report that promoted NT Labor’s “party interests” by playing up its “perceived achievements” on anti-discrimination laws, which the Auditor General has found violated the Public Information Act.
UPDATED: A Country Liberal Party branch has circulated a proposal to fight the Territory’s high crime rates by flying in “hooded cane masters” from Singapore to apply “six doses” at a time to anybody sentenced to less than a year for breaking the law while wearing masks to “protect them from possible revenge attacks”.
The Office of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption did not provide promised oversight of the NT Police’s flawed investigation into the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker despite being directly requested to do so by Aboriginal elders in Yuendumu, and publicly claiming that it would, the NT Independent can reveal.
Health experts have warned of a marked increase in the number of melioidosis cases in the Top End this Wet season, advising residents and visitors to be extra cautious.
The Department of Chief Minister and Cabinet has refused to explain incomplete travel records provided to the NT Independent last year under FOI laws that showed Michael Gunner’s then-deputy chief of staff and brother-in-law approved the use of taxpayer funds for campaign purposes in apparent contravention of the law.
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker and the Director of Public Prosecutions have refused to explain why an American use-of-force expert paid by police who provided evidence against Constable Zach Rolfe was used at the committal hearing but not during the Supreme Court murder trial.
ANALYSIS: The Gunner Government has announced it will release a $145 million tender to design and build the next part of the State Square project, with federal government figures showing close to $200 million in Territory Government money could be spent in total, for what original figures estimated to be a roughly $20 million project when it was first announced in the middle of 2017.
Former Labor racing minister and current chair of Thoroughbred Racing NT Syd Stirling has told the Chief Minister the Darwin Turf Club and the peak body representing racing should not have to pay back $12 million of taxpayers’ money for the controversial grandstand because it would be bad for the NT’s economy.
Senator Sam McMahon, who resigned from the CLP earlier this year, will re-contest the upcoming federal election as a Liberal Democrat, she has announced.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered the Northern Territory Government to pay a worker what could be more than $40,000 in back-payed higher duties allowances.
A long-standing feud between missing man Paddy Moriarty and his neighbour was likely the cause of his disappearance, the Northern Territory coroner concluded at an inquest today.
Japanese encephalitis virus has been detected in the NT, sparking a warning from NT Health for Territorians to take precautions against mosquito bites.
