EXCLUSIVE: A national integrity expert has called on the Labor Government’s Cabinet team to immediately deal with Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ “clear breach” of the NT ministerial code of conduct for failing to divest her shares in gas giant Woodside Energy when she obtained them last year.
ANALYSIS: The Chief Minister now has a lot in common with the previous scandal-plagued Giles CLP government, with no credibility left and her political career in tatters for arrogantly lying to Territorians to further her own interests and failing to accept responsibility.
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Natasha Fyles breached her government’s own ministerial code of conduct by failing to divest her Woodside Energy shares, triggering calls for her resignation and an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss her future as leader, the NT Independent can reveal.
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.
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.
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.
UPDATED: A man who was elected in a by-election just last year is the Territory’s new Police Minister, following a Cabinet reshuffle announced by Chief Minister Natasha Fyles on Monday afternoon, that will also see another backbencher promoted to the Labor Cabinet team at the expense of Paul Kirby and Lauren Moss, who have both been booted.
Speculation Chief Minister Natasha Fyles will announce a Cabinet reshuffle later this week was kicked into overdrive after Federal Labor Member for Solomon Luke Gosling let slip on radio that “change is coming” involving “new leadership within the NT team”.
UPDATED: The Fyles Government shot down independent MLA Robyn Lambley and the CLP’s motion in Parliament to have government members currently under investigation by the ICAC declare their conflicts of interest and recuse themselves before debating amendments to the ICAC Act.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has hit back at the Opposition after she was called out in Parliament for misleading the public in a series of Facebook posts about crime, raising veiled threats of exposing the Opposition for also breaching the Public Information Act, while suggesting she has not reported them for misconduct despite being aware of allegations.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles misled Territorians about her government’s actions to keep the public safe in a series of Facebook posts, while the community was on edge following a spate of deadly stabbings, the Auditor General has found.
