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.
Fyles’s parents biggest donors to Labor’s Arafura by-election victory: NTEC disclosures
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.
Chalker and Fyles reach ‘confidential’ deal, announce his ‘retirement’
UPDATED: Jamie Chalker has officially “retired” as police commissioner after reaching a confidential settlement with the Fyles Government that has not been disclosed, which comes ahead of a deadline to file evidence against the government in his legal battle.
CLP branches moving no confidence motion against Lia Finocchiaro: Sources
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.
Govt awarded $30k contract to assess damage ‘and related works’ at Howard Springs camp while Fyles claimed no damage
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 claims post-COVID-19 behaviour change has led to more violent crime
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.
‘I was acting on advice that I got’: Chief Minister’s excuse for saying no Howard Springs damage
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.
Court records cast doubt on Labor MLA’s claims about fatal car crash conviction
EXCLUSIVE: Territory Labor Member for Arafura Manuel Brown appears to have misled the public in a statement released just before the by-election last month in which he claimed he “rendered first aid” to a woman he killed with his car in 2009, according to court records obtained by the NT Independent. READ THE FACTS HERE.
Labor backbencher announces independent NT Police review, says CLP can help decide who runs it
Labor MLA for Fannie Bay Brent Potter has announced an independent review into the NT Police force to investigate “systemic issues”, which he said would have both parties’ input into who would run it, but initially said it would only happen if police officers agreed to a new enterprise bargaining agreement.
Chalker ‘remains on leave’ as three days set aside for court case against Fyles and Govt
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has not returned from leave as planned today after launching legal action against the Chief Minister, Police Minister and the NT Government to block his sacking, while the courts have set aside three days in June to hear the case amid unknown “allegations” raised against Mr Chalker.
‘We are not the enemy’: Chief Minister and Police Minister called to step up, not down at crime rally
The organisers of the anti-crime rally in Darwin on Saturday made 18 demands to the Fyles Government for dealing with crime in the Territory, which came in the wake of yet another stabbing death in Darwin.
Opposition calls police commissioner saga a ‘secret sacking scandal’, Fyles still quiet on his status
Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro has called on the Chief Minister to explain how long a legal stoush with the reportedly former police commissioner Jamie Chalker will go on, as the saga drags into an eleventh day, but would not answer if she would have removed him, while Natasha Fyles said unexplained negotiations with Mr Chalker would remain private despite him publicly calling for mediation through high priced lawyers on the weekend.