'No comment': Chief Minister refuses to explain Waterfront scandal as calls for inquiry mount | NT Independent

‘No comment’: Chief Minister refuses to explain Waterfront scandal as calls for inquiry mount

by | Apr 17, 2025 | News, NT Politics, Subscriber | 7 comments

Chief Minister Lia Finnochiaro fled a press conference Thursday morning, refusing to comment or answ
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7 Comments

  1. Thanks for your work keep going 👍

    • We wouldnt know that anything was wrong or underhand without the work of NT Independent. Thank you

  2. “I won’t be making comment about that,” Ms Finocchiaro said.

    Dear CLP Dinosaurs in your nursing homes, just letting you know politely, you got hit by a asteroid.

    So this is how the CLP ends. I wonder who will replace them?

  3. Thank you NT Independent & NTG Independent Justine Davis for your courage, commitment to truth and resilience for standing up against these parasites.

  4. Oh dear oh dear oh dear, we’ve now got a lawyer and her family of lawyers (pardon the pun) around her telling her that “No comment” is a great way out of this self-created mess and the answer that the electorate want to hear.

    Gosh, we wish we were CLP ministers right now, following and supporting a ‘leader’ and her grubby, sorry hubby, like that. Wallowing in the Industrial Political Waste left behind by Burkey and his mates.

    C’Mon Sam and Shane, surely you can do better than this?

    What happened to: “This can be an educational tool for [insert name of TICK here]”?

    Or that other shiny gem of a reply:

    “If you think someone’s allegedly done something wrong, why don’t you walk over to the DPP and let them know,” she said. “But as far as I’m concerned, this matter is closed.”

    Where’s all that political nous and experience to draw on, fellas?

    Nope, looks like that’s all you’ve got. Offer to fix the problems? No sir.

    Instead, lock down the hatches, refuse to answer questions, run away and hope it all blows over. What a Political Spin Dream Team.

    **bows down to kiss feet of the PR Greats emoji**

    Now all we’ve got is to run away and hide in the ‘LiaR’s Retreat’ of “No comment”. Such an apt description, given the current circumstances.

    Here’s a free educational tool for you lot:

    “No comment” can seemingly provide time and protection from media scrutiny. But in actuality, no comment can worsen a negative situation.

    “No comment” is, in fact, a strong comment.

    By employing “no comment”, a person or company implies guilt, complicity or prior knowledge of the situation, and it alludes to an attempt to hide that knowledge.

    Most general listeners will give deference to an answer—as long as it is a cogent answer—even if it provides little clarity to the situation.

    Audiences do not require all of the answers, however they demand at least one.

    And it’s not “No comment”. Unless you want everyone to see you as Guilty.

    Looks like little LiaR’a lost her ‘strong voice’.

    Sympathy? Nah.

    Sam, Alastair, Susan, Rachael, Andrew: Pay back all the money you ‘unjustly acquired’ and apologise.

    TICKS.

    The final comment goes to our respected and eloquent Attorney-General, Dr Marie-Claire Boothby, High Priestess of the Financial Foyer:

    “Our Brief Govoreet Through The Letter-Hole Was Not, Shall We Say, Satisfactory, Yes?”

  5. They think they’re entitled to take what they want. We can do so much better. Thanks NT Indie and our independent representatives.

  6. IndependeNTs rule. Graft and corruption are all over the NTG. Their ‘lackies’ get high on the hog whilst we peasants are left to eat bacon. Time to rescind the Self-Government Act???

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