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.
The Federal Member for Lingiari has blamed the Fyles Government for not listening or acting on a range of social issues in the Territory that contributed to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament failing to pass over the weekend, calling for a “fundamental shift” in how the NT’s Labor politicians currently perform their roles.
The Country Liberal Party has elected former chief minister Shane Stone as its president at a conference in Darwin over the weekend, with two men – including a former election loser – named as the party’s Palmerston candidates for next year’s general election.
A former senior Labor adviser has warned Chief Minister Natasha Fyles about making amendments to the ICAC Act while members of her government are under investigation for alleged improper conduct in connection to the 2020 election campaign, suggesting the Labor Government has lost its “courage and conviction” to do the right thing.
The fallout from a real estate agent allegedly hitting the Chief Minister in the face with a cream-filled crepe appears to have reached peak madness, with Suzi Milgate now banned by NT Parliament amid claims of “terrorist” behaviour and the makers of CU in the NT t-shirts issuing a limited edition “cream pie” shirt to commemorate the assault.
UPDATED: The woman charged over Chief Minister Natasha Fyles being hit in the face by what’s believed to be a cream-covered crepe on Sunday morning has been identified as a Darwin real estate agent.
