Chief Minister Michael Gunner continued his “anti-vaxxer” crusade in Parliament on Thursday, declaring anyone who opposes mandatory vaccinations an “anti-vaxxer”, after Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy criticised the government’s communications around its vaccine policy.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has accused the Opposition Leader and all CLP Members of Parliament of being “anti-vaxxers” in a heated Question Time that saw the Speaker deem the claims “offensive” and stricken from the parliamentary record.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has told Parliament he was forced to charge taxpayers for security upgrades at his home because he is the victim of a “stalking-type scenario”, not because of “a normal crime situation”.
The Gunner Labor Government has made history in the Northern Territory as the first sitting government to pick up a seat from an opposition party in the Daly by-election last night.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner is engaging in anti-democratic conduct by refusing to reinstate three days of parliamentary sittings that were cancelled during last month’s snap COVID-19 lockdown, the CLP Opposition and independent MLAs say, warning that Territorians are not getting their voices heard in their House.
NT Racing Minister Natahsa Fyles has refused to say if the Gunner Government will seek to recover the $12 million grandstand funding from the Darwin Turf Club despite the Chief Minister vowing to get the money back, while Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro said grants should not be ‘clawed back” from community organisations.
EXCLUSIVE: Labor’s candidate for the Daly by-election allegedly threatened an MLA outside Parliament House in February while working as a ministerial staffer in an incident that Attorney General Selena Uibo said at the time “in no way reflects the values of our Labor government”.
UPDATED: Chief Minister Michael Gunner has insulted frontline pandemic workers and should “apologise immediately” for once again politicising the global COVID-19 pandemic to win votes, says the union representing the Territory’s police officers.
The by-election in the electorate of Daly to replace CLP MLA Ian Sloan will be held on September 11, but confusion remains over how the date was selected, which appears to have caught the CLP by surprise.
Despite Territory politicians being listed by the Chief Health Officer as “essential workers” during a lockdown, parliamentary sittings have been cancelled this week with no make-up dates currently planned.
The Gunner Government has killed a motion in Parliament that would have seen the $12 million grandstand grant to the Darwin Turf Club that the ICAC found was “affected by political donations” debated publicly, in what the Opposition called an “extraordinary abuse of power” to avoid scrutiny.
Leader of Government Business Natasha Fyles has been “offended” in Parliament again, this time after Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro suggested the Gunner Government does not have the “capacity” to make decisions itself, has “fobbed off questions” and were “smug”.
