EXCLUSIVE: Labor Speaker Mark Monaghan has jetted off to the United Kingdom on a parliamentary junket amid a growing scandal involving the use of government fuel cards to pay for MLAs’ personal interstate holidays, the NT Independent can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE: The Labor Government’s Speaker secretly approved “clarifications” to MLAs’ taxpayer-funded entitlements to permit politicians to use government fuel cards for personal travel, with Attorney General Chansey Paech the first to take advantage, charging taxpayers for a personal holiday to Adelaide from Alice Springs earlier this year while the crime crisis was at its peak, the NT Independent can reveal.

An ICAC report into allegations of political interference in the charging of Zach Rolfe has found no evidence of Labor ministers’ misconduct, but comes with a warning that other investigations are continuing into the matter and raised further questions about the integrity of the police investigation into Rolfe. FULL STORY.

The Fyles Government has gagged an Independent MLA during debate in Parliament about the ongoing crime crisis after she raised concerns about Labor’s acceptance of criminals, including a child rapist, in its highest ranks. READ WHAT HAPPENED HERE.

The CLP Leader’s budget reply speech was quickly criticised for providing a promotion to a key MLA amid leadership turmoil in the party. READ WHAT LIA FINOCCHIARO SAID HERE.

Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’s mum and dad were the largest single contributors to the Territory Labor Party during the Arafura by-election that was won by controversial Labor candidate Manuel Brown, according to financial disclosures released by the NT Electoral Commission. FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEY KICKED IN HERE.

EXCLUSIVE: Powerful CLP branches have indicated they intend to bring a no confidence motion against leader Lia Finocchiaro, sources say, necessitating a damage control trip to Alice Springs this weekend. Find out why the party’s rank-and-file are angry at their leader.

The Fyles Government awarded a $30,000 contract to a construction company for “condition assessment inspections and related works at the flood evacuation accommodation at Howard Springs”, before some of Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’s most recent denials of damage there, denials she said were “based on advice I got”.

Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has said there is evidence in the Northern Territory and around the world of more violent crime post the COVID-19 pandemic, when asked about a weekend of crime that included five ram raids on bottle shops, stolen cars, several homes broken into – including one where a resident was attacked with sticks – and a disabled woman being sexually assaulted in public during the afternoon.

Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has finally admitted damage has been done to the Howard Springs workers’ camp after weeks of denials and public contradictions by her own ministers – which she was still denying last week – before seemingly accepting on Monday that damage has in fact been caused at the facility.