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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

The Gunner Government has refused to disclose if Labor ministers paid their family members to provide childcare services through a $5,000 childcare reimbursement entitlement, claiming that disclosing how they spend the taxpayer money would be an “unreasonable interference with their privacy”.

Startling new research that has revealed the extent of Darwin kids’ anxieties about crime in their communities needs to be addressed by the Gunner Government, say Opposition and independent MLAs, as questions swirl over why CDU did not publicly release the research.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner has shared the extent of his government’s foreign policy while on radio Wednesday morning, saying the NT has “always been a target” for international aggressors but that signing up to trade deals will ensure the NT is not “invaded” by China.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner needs to explain to Territorians why he repeatedly refused to release the details of a secret education agreement he signed with China until last week, the CLP Opposition says.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s secret China agreement is not a “sister cities” arrangement as he previously claimed, but it does obligate the Northern Territory Government to “promote closer relations” with China, newly disclosed documents reveal.