The Gunner Labor Government is wasting taxpayer money sending the MLA they kicked out of caucus last year to London at taxpayer expense to take part in a parliamentary junket, the Opposition CLP says.
Inside the NT News war with ICAC: The only casualties are truth, accountability and $12 million of public funds
ANALYSIS: The ICAC Inspector’s report released last week into a complaint by the NT News and its former editor Matt Williams is not a get-out-of-jail-free card as the Territory’s only daily newspaper seems to think it is, nor is it vindication for them – it’s a new nadir of just how corrupt and incompetent the Northern Territory has become.
‘A scam of grand proportions’: Calls for Health Minister to resign as $4.3M consultancy deal sent to ICAC
A secret consultancy contract between the Department of Health and Ernst and Young that saw procurement rules violated to inflate a $700,000 contract to more than $4.3 million through variations has been referred to the ICAC by the Opposition and an independent MLA.
NT Health lied to public about $4.3M consultancy contract, breached procurement rules: Auditor General report
EXCLUSIVE: The NT Health Department and its Minister misled Territorians and violated government procurement policies when it awarded a controversial $700,000 consultancy contract to Ernst and Young that ballooned to more than $4.3 million after multiple variations, the Auditor General has found.
Labor MLAs and head public servant silent over alleged election rorts as ICAC informed
The Territory Labor caucus and the NT’s head public servant have refused to say when they became aware of alleged election rorts perpetrated by the Chief Minister’s Office during the 2020 election caretaker period – or if any of them reported suspected improper conduct to the anti-corruption body in accordance with mandatory reporting laws.
Private emails reveal Chief Minister’s brother-in-law led Labor election campaign from CM’s office
EXCLUSIVE: The extent of Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s brother-in-law’s involvement in the 2020 Labor election campaign while drawing his taxpayer-funded deputy chief of staff salary has been further revealed in a series of internal emails obtained by the NT Independent.
Labor election rorts revealed: Read the FOI documents obtained by the NT Independent
READ THE DOCS: A standard 30-day Freedom of Information application turned into an eight-month struggle to extract public documents from the Office of the Chief Minister. Here are the documents we eventually obtained that show taxpayer funds being used for party-political campaigning by the Chief Minister.
‘That was not your money to spend’: Opposition grill Gunner on Labor election campaign rorts
Chief Minister Michael Gunner did not answer direct allegations made in Parliament that his brother-in-law and former deputy chief of staff approved the use of taxpayer money for Labor’s 2020 election campaign in breach of rules meant to prevent the misappropriation of public funds.
Speaker bans public from attending Parliament after ‘advice’ from NT Police
Territorians have been banned from attending NT Parliament for the last week of sittings of the year, following a “security risk assessment” by NT Police, Speaker Ngaree Ah Kit said, while friends of Labor were allowed to attend the afternoon sittings.
‘Gunner promised integrity in government’: MLA says alleged misuse of public funds must be investigated
UPDATED: Chief Minister Michael Gunner has breached the trust of Territorians in a “disgusting, appalling abuse of power”, after it was revealed his brother-in-law and then-deputy chief of staff authorised the use of public funds for campaign travel during last year’s election, an independent MLA says.
Gunner’s brother-in-law approved taxpayer funds for 2020 campaign trips against rules: Internal documents
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s office orchestrated taxpayer-funded election campaign trips to marginal electorates approved by the Chief Minister’s brother-in-law, in breach of rules that prevent the misappropriation of public funds, an NT Independent investigation has uncovered.
ICAC, parliamentary investigations into conduct of MLA Mark Turner dropped
The NT Parliament’s disciplinary committee has dropped its investigation into Blain MLA Mark Turner for lying to Parliament, after the Office of the ICAC also quietly dropped its investigation into Labor’s so-called “cocaine sex scandal” without issuing a public statement.