Any issues of illegal conduct around the charging of Constable Zach Rolfe found through the upcoming coronial inquest into the death of Kumnajayi Walker would be sent to the Police Commissioner and the Director of Public Prosecutions – the very positions alleged to have been compromised by “political interference” – according to the Coroners Act.
UPDATED: NT Police Association president Paul McCue said “political interference was alive” when Constable Zach Rolfe was charged for murder in 2019, implicating senior NT Labor politicians for influencing the decision to lay charges.
Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler must immediately stand down while the NT’s anti-corruption commissioner investigates her involvement in the TIO Stadium fiasco, the Opposition CLP says.
The Gunner Government is under investigation by the NT’s anti-corruption commissioner over its handling of the TIO Stadium fiasco following Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler’s extraordinary ministerial order to exempt the facility from building certification laws meant to protect the public.
The Country Liberal Party has two months to find 1500 members to avoid being deregistered as a political party by the Australian Electoral Commission, but it’s unlikely they will have to prove anything before the impending federal election is called.
UPDATED: CLP president Jamie De Brenni has resigned and been replaced by Fiona Darcy the party has said, but the change comes at a tumultuous time, with the future of the party under threat, and amid internal allegations that inappropriate behaviour against women over the last couple of years was not being investigated.
ANALYSIS: There appears to be a much more sinister culture in Territory Labor at play these days and that’s an outright ‘accept-no-responsibility-for-our-actions’ and ‘cover-it-up-at-all-costs’ mentality that is quickly suffocating the party and divorcing it from its core Labor values.
NT Young Labor president Harvie Stiller has been involved with the Labor Party since at least 2019, contrary to media reports, and was photographed with federal leader Anthony Albanese just days after appearing in a video that showed him snorting a white substance, the NT Independent can reveal.
WATCH THE VIDEO: The president of Territory Labor’s youth wing has resigned from his job in Federal MP Luke Gosling’s office after a social media video surfaced showing him snorting a white substance that appears to be cocaine, the NT Independent can reveal, raising further questions about an alleged drug culture inside the Territory Labor Party.
EXCLUSIVE: A Territory Labor-aligned marketing company that helped run Michael Gunner’s 2020 election campaign was awarded $60,000 of public money in the lead up to the election through a COVID-19 stimulus program it was originally rejected for, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show.
The Country Liberal Party remains an “old boys club”, with female members being threatened and formal complaints about bullying not being addressed more than a year after they were made, party members have told the NT Independent.
The Chief Minister’s Office has blocked a Freedom of Information application into its handling of the ‘cocaine sex scandal’, which sought documents relating to when the Chief Minister first became aware of an email that detailed explicit messages and allegations about a senior staffer, an MLA and a sex worker.
