Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has lashed out at Labor Member for Blain Mark Turner, claiming the Labor caucus does not “trust him” – more than a year after she personally and officially cleared him of misleading Parliament.

Labor MLA Mark Turner has used parliamentary privilege to air explosive allegations that a senior NT Police officer inferred that Jamie Chalker had intimidated the ICAC with his “appendage” to make investigations go away and that a police inquiry into unsafe homes in Bellamack was not proceeding because the officer dismissed it as “cheap housing for poor people”.

Former NT Police officer and Labor MLA Mark Turner says he is referring the police’s handling of the Zach Rolfe criminal investigation to federal authorities following the NT Independent’s special investigation that revealed a previously redacted internal police report that he said shows “manipulation of evidence, failure to disclose relevant material and the appearance of a perversion of justice”.

CLP Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro is calling on Labor backbenchers and independent MLAs to back a no-confidence motion in the Fyles Government when Parliament resumes next week, for what she says is Labor’s ongoing failure to keep Territorians safe.

Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has set March 18 as the date for the Arafura by-election, following a state funeral that will be held on March 1 for the former member who died late last month.

The Labor MLA for Arafura has died suddenly, with Chief Minister Natasha Fyles paying tribute to him in a statement.

How could the disgusting and depraved acts of a child sex predator in the Labor Party’s midst be kept so quiet, even after he was charged with raping a child? How could the social set in Darwin, who love to gossip, not be gossiping? So who in Labour knew what and when about Kent Rowe?

Territory Labor no longer has the moral authority to lead the Northern Territory or bring about much-needed reforms to reduce sexual and family violence after senior party members expressed their support in character references for convicted child rapist Kent Rowe ahead of his sentencing, a Senator says.

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Territory Labor figures, including a former deputy chief minister and the partner of a Supreme Court Justice, expressed their support for convicted paedophile Kent Rowe to the courts ahead of sentencing earlier this month because of his “successful” contributions to the party, the NT Independent can reveal.

Faced with an ongoing crime crisis across the Territory, the Fyles Government has made the NT the first jurisdiction in the country to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12.