Darwin’s $400 million ship lift project will see calls for expressions of interest this week after negotiations originally began in 2016 under the Giles government – and two years after the Auditor General found there has never been a cost-benefit analysis done on the project.
The Northern Territory’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption will be allocated more money to clean up corruption in the NT and the Territory’s shameful Freedom of Information (FOI) processes will be overhauled under a Territory Alliance government, the party has pledged.
Crime in the Northern Territory is at the forefront of voters’ minds in the lead up to this August’s NT general election. Public opinion polls have consistently shown crime as the biggest issue concerning Territorians. Here are the NT’s political parties’ policies on reducing crime.
The Country Liberal Party will preference disgraced former speaker Kezia Purick in the seat of Goyder in the upcoming general election, the NT Independent can reveal.
A petition spearheaded by the NT’s peak real estate body calling for a reversal of legislation that would allow tenants to keep pets on a property has come under fire, after the majority of signatories have been identified as overseas parties from far-flung countries such as Namibia and Guyana.
As the NT’s major parties and independents scramble to hammer out preference deals, the NT Electoral Commission has held the election ballot draw to determine the order of names on each ballot for the NT 2020 general election.
Former Labor treasurer and party president Syd Stirling is one of two men who were paid an average $318 an hour to run the NT Remuneration Tribunal – the committee that recommended scrapping politicians’ requirements to publicly report their travel expenses to the public.
Territorians have been denied the right to know where their politicians travelled over the last two and a half years and how much it cost until after the election, following the government’s decision to stall the NT Independent’s Freedom of Information application into taxpayer-funded travel.
The details of a secret deal Chief Minister Michael Gunner signed while in China last year will remain secret until after the election at the earliest, following a decision by Mr Gunner’s department to block the release of public information.
NT Treasurer Nicole Manison has said government debt was projected to hit $8.2 billion by the end of this financial year but the actual figures will not be revealed until after the NT election.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner needs to explain to Territorians how a senior public servant in his department accepted a gift of travel without disclosing it from a private company that is seeking taxpayer money for a development, the Territory’s opposition parties say.
EXCLUSIVE: The Northern Territory’s second-most senior public servant Andy Cowan had a trip to Disney World paid for by a private company seeking government funds to build an interpretive centre at Jabiru which appears to not have been disclosed, the NT Independent can reveal.
