NT Young Labor members have called on the party president not to expel disgraced Blain MLA Mark Turner from the party in part because he supports legalising marijuana, a letter has revealed.
Senior Gunner Government adviser sacked for ‘dishonesty’ revealed as NT Labor powerbroker
EXCLUSIVE: The senior adviser to the Chief Minister who resigned last week over his role in the sex scandal engulfing the Gunner Government is Territory Labor powerbroker Kent Rowe – who ran the NT Labor Party for the better part of the last decade – and who sent a picture of his penis to a local “bondage mistress”, messages reveal.
COVID-19 vaccine rolls out in the Northern Territory for frontline workers
The NT Government has started the first phase of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout with frontline health care and quarantine workers getting the jab today.
Gunner blames ‘server fault’ for damning email delay, did not seek messages
Chief Minister Michael Gunner says a “server fault” was to blame for his office not receiving a crucial email from the NT Independent last Monday that revealed explicit messages between ousted MLA Mark Turner, a fifth floor staffer and a woman with whom both men had carried out extra-marital affairs.
‘We would have handled this differently’: Gunner’s attempt to shift blame for scandal contradicted by email records
Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s claims that he and his “team” were unaware of explicit text messages between ousted Blain MLA Mark Turner and his mistress until hours before Mr Turner admitted the affair are untrue, the NT Independent can confirm.
Tennant Creek electrical company and director fined over death of apprentice
A Tennant Creek electrical services company and its director have been convicted for the death of an apprentice electrician in 2019, with the court handing down a combined penalty of more than $160,000, including an enforceable undertaking imposed for the first time in the NT as part of a sentence.
Gunner in self-isolation, gets tested for COVID-19 after becoming unwell
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has reportedly gone into self-isolation after feeling unwell during Bombing of Darwin ceremonies this morning, as his leadership faces its biggest test yet over a growing sex and drugs scandal.
‘Witness tampering’ allegations made against Labor over sex scandal cover-up
The Opposition has accused the Gunner Government of “witness tampering” and “perverting the course of justice” after the NT Independent revealed Labor backbencher Mark Turner attempted to persuade his lover to make a false public statement about their affair, and suggested the cover-up of the sex scandal has put Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s leadership in jeopardy.
Labor shuts down Opposition crime censure motion
The Opposition has accused the Gunner Government of “completely botching its handling of crime” and criticised the Chief Minister for attempting to stifle debate on escalating crime in the Territory.
Blain MLA Mark Turner sacked, senior staffer resigns in fallout from Labor cocaine sex scandal
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has expelled Blain MLA Mark Turner from the Labor parliamentary caucus and said a senior staffer has resigned, following days of growing pressure on Mr Gunner to take action.
Labor MLA tried to get woman to issue false statement about affair before confessing, texts reveal
EXCLUSIVE: Labor MLA Mark Turner sent a statement to the woman with whom he was having an affair to publicly release that recanted her story about the consensual affair hours before his late night parliamentary confession, new text messages reveal. It also appears Mr Turner was working with Labor to draft the false statement.
‘It was consensual but not appropriate’: Labor MLA Mark Turner reveals affair
Member for Blain Mark Turner has outed himself as the Labor MLA caught up in an alleged cocaine sex scandal, but told Parliament in a late-night speech that any accusations he engaged in illegal activity are “categorically false”.