EXCLUSIVE: Darwin Turf Club chairman and businessman Brett Dixon was personally involved in discussions with the board about the $12 million taxpayer-funded grandstand project while it was at the open tender stage, despite publicly claiming he had removed himself from all discussions, internal documents obtained by the NT Independent reveal.
There is chaos in Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s communications department after acting communications director Jamie Collins, who was also head of social media, resigned unexpectedly this week after only six months, with word that Mr Gunner’s chief of staff tried to have incumbent Maria Billias removed from her role.
EXCLUSIVE: The NT Police college failed to meet national standards in nearly every measure and had “serious non-compliances around staff qualifications”, a scathing audit obtained by the NT Independent reveals. The audit report found the college employed unqualified...
EXCLUSIVE: The Darwin Turf Club’s board of directors was not aware chairman Brett Dixon was lobbying the Gunner Government for a $12 million grant to build a new grandstand until he disclosed that he had secured the taxpayer money in June 2019 – less than three months before his company was awarded the contract to build it – internal Turf Club documents obtained by the NT Independent reveal.
Treaty Commissioner Mick Dodson has yet to officially resign from his lucrative role despite Chief Minister Michael Gunner stating that he has lost confidence in his ability to do the job following allegations of improper conduct.
NT Treaty Commissioner Mick Dodson will reportedly resign after receiving a letter from the Chief Minister informing him that the government has lost confidence in his ability to do the job following serious allegations of inappropriate conduct towards women.
Treaty Commissioner Mick Dodson needs to be stood down and the Gunner Government must immediately release the findings of its investigation into allegations he threatened violence against an Indigenous woman at a football match earlier this year, the Opposition said.
NT Treaty Commissioner Mick Dodson is being investigated by the Territory Government over claims he threatened and verbally abused an Aboriginal woman at a football match earlier this year.
The Opposition and an independent have accused the Gunner Government of undermining the integrity of Parliament by delaying a parliamentary investigation into Member for Blain Mark Turner and for not referring disgraced former speaker Kezia Purick for investigation after the anti-corruption watchdog’s findings against her last year.
NT politicians are no longer allowed to call Chief Minister Michael Gunner or his government “incompetent” in Parliament after Labor Speaker Ngaree Ah Kit ruled the word “offensive” and banned it.
The NT Parliament’s disciplinary committee’s investigation into Labor MLA Mark Turner’s conduct has been inexplicably delayed by the government until some time next year.
The controversial decision to lease the Darwin Port to a Chinese-owned company that is now under review by the Department of Defence has caused the Northern Territory “reputational harm”, Chief Minister Michael Gunner said, implicating his head public servant Jodie Ryan in the hot-button issue.
