ANALYSIS: The serious abuse of office charge laid against NT Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne has exposed troubling integrity issues in the NT’s public institutions and raised some uncomfortable questions for the Gunner Government ahead of the Territory election next month, writes Christopher Walsh
OPINION: Regardless if you are pro-, anti-, indifferent or unsure about onshore gas, you have to know that Terry Mills and Territory Alliance are actively misleading when claiming the NT Government has already spent $100 million on the onshore gas industry.
Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne has responded to the abuse of office charge leveled at her by the NT Police, calling it a “misconceived charge” in a media statement from her lawyer.
The Gunner Government has awarded a $55 million contract to build the new Darwin youth detention centre to Halikos Group – the company that objected to the facility being built in its original location because it infringed on free land they were given by the government.
The Gunner Government’s early 2019 pledge to “fast track” five construction projects valued at $126 million to create jobs and boost the economy has seen the majority of projects delayed, the NT Independent can reveal.
The once donation-rich Country Liberal Party, fuelled with big cash from big and small NT businesses for decades, is now dependent on contributions from its own candidates to keep it afloat in the lead up to the August election, donation disclosures reveal.
Faced with increased pressure to immediately block Victoria and NSW residents from entering the NT due to outbreaks and clusters of coronavirus in those states, Health Minister Natasha Fyles said Tuesday that the Gunner Government will sleep on it.
COW-A-BUNGA: The high-flying senior NT bureaucrat who charged taxpayers for a trip to Disney World late last year also charged Territorians $12,500 for a week-long trip to Hawaii earlier this year to attend a three-day conference, the NT Independent can reveal.
The Northern Territory’s first Aboriginal cabinet minister and champion of Indigenous rights John Ah Kit has died, his family said in a statement Sunday night.
EXCLUSIVE: The Territory’s second-most powerful public servant took a taxpayer funded excursion to Disney World while on a mysterious trip to the United States late last year that he now claims will be reimbursed to taxpayers, the NT Independent can reveal.
EXCLUSIVE: CLP Senator Sam McMahon’s beleaguered chief of staff Jason Riley has left his job, the NT Independent can reveal.
The Gunner Government’s claim that it has no legal jurisdiction to turn Victoria residents away from the NT’s borders is not true, one of the country’s leading constitutional law experts has told the NT Independent.
