Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s refusal to drug test politicians and their staffers while calling for police officers to be tested is “the greatest hypocrisy” and insulting to police, says the NT Police Association’s president.
Senior Gunner Government adviser sacked for ‘dishonesty’ revealed as NT Labor powerbroker
EXCLUSIVE: The senior adviser to the Chief Minister who resigned last week over his role in the sex scandal engulfing the Gunner Government is Territory Labor powerbroker Kent Rowe – who ran the NT Labor Party for the better part of the last decade – and who sent a picture of his penis to a local “bondage mistress”, messages reveal.
Gunner blames ‘server fault’ for damning email delay, did not seek messages
Chief Minister Michael Gunner says a “server fault” was to blame for his office not receiving a crucial email from the NT Independent last Monday that revealed explicit messages between ousted MLA Mark Turner, a fifth floor staffer and a woman with whom both men had carried out extra-marital affairs.
‘We would have handled this differently’: Gunner’s attempt to shift blame for scandal contradicted by email records
Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s claims that he and his “team” were unaware of explicit text messages between ousted Blain MLA Mark Turner and his mistress until hours before Mr Turner admitted the affair are untrue, the NT Independent can confirm.
‘Witness tampering’ allegations made against Labor over sex scandal cover-up
The Opposition has accused the Gunner Government of “witness tampering” and “perverting the course of justice” after the NT Independent revealed Labor backbencher Mark Turner attempted to persuade his lover to make a false public statement about their affair, and suggested the cover-up of the sex scandal has put Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s leadership in jeopardy.
Blain MLA Mark Turner sacked, senior staffer resigns in fallout from Labor cocaine sex scandal
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has expelled Blain MLA Mark Turner from the Labor parliamentary caucus and said a senior staffer has resigned, following days of growing pressure on Mr Gunner to take action.
Labor MLA tried to get woman to issue false statement about affair before confessing, texts reveal
EXCLUSIVE: Labor MLA Mark Turner sent a statement to the woman with whom he was having an affair to publicly release that recanted her story about the consensual affair hours before his late night parliamentary confession, new text messages reveal. It also appears Mr Turner was working with Labor to draft the false statement.
CLP calls for Gunner to resign over sex scandal as explicit messages given to police
Chief Minister Michael Gunner must resign over his refusal to address allegations of a Labor MLA and staffer’s involvement in a cocaine-fuelled sex party, the CLP Opposition says, calling the lack of action “a cover-up”.
Developer’s lawyer ‘astounded’ by planning law change sparked by court case
Opposition Planning and Infrastructure spokesman Gerard Maley has slammed Minister Eva Lawler’s move to urgently amend the NT Planning Act amid an ongoing Supreme Court case by a Territory developer over the rezoning for a proposed $800 million project in The Gardens.
‘That sweet man is such a darling’: Woman at centre of Labor sex scandal speaks out as police investigate
The woman at the centre of an alleged cocaine-fuelled sex party involving Labor members says she was carrying on a relationship with an MLA but that he did not engage in cocaine in her presence. The revelations come as the NT Independent can confirm police are investigating.
Gunner resists calls to investigate sex scandal allegations, says not ‘a shred of evidence’ provided
UPDATED: Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro used Question Time to call on the Chief Minister to rule out that a staffer and a politician are the people involved in an alleged cocaine-fuelled sex party, but Mr Gunner maintained his position of not acknowledging the allegations.
Gunner must address ‘serious allegations’ involving ‘members of Labor’: Opposition
Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro has called on Chief Minister Michael Gunner to publicly address “serious allegations involving members of [his] Territory Labor party” after accusations of drug use and sexual escapades became public, but Mr Gunner says he’s too busy dealing with COVID-19.