EDITORIAL: There is indeed a report into Labor’s devastating 2024 election result in a desk somewhere that Labor Leader Selena Uibo does not want to reflect on, a report that clearly makes her uncomfortable and would explain why Labor’s past problems continue to repeat. On Friday, she went back on a pledge to release it, indicating it will never be seen, which follows a disastrous week of scandal for the party.
OPINION: One of the most disturbing themes from Estimates hearings is what we learned about accountability, writes independent MLA Justine Davis. When we have a minister explain how laws are developed say, ‘The formal framework I adhere to is the one that Territorians elected us to do, which is to restore the Territory lifestyle’, we should all be worried.
EDITORIAL: The Estimates Show is not currently functioning in the public’s interest and needs to be shut down and re-formatted or the main players possibly re-cast to get it back on track.
Australia Post’s shift towards parcels, lockers and digital services is quietly undermining the licensed post office network that many Northern Territory communities rely on for banking, government services and everyday transactions, writes Licensed Post Office Group chairperson Scott Etherington.
The Warlpiri family of Kumanjayi White deserves more than condolences and a plane ride, they deserve the truth, accountability, and a legal system that values their son’s life as much as it values the reputation of its officers, writes Wayne Connop.
The destruction of native vegetation and habitat during construction of the water main to the Holtze subdivision was unnecessary, but the cleared corridor could now be turned into a bike path, writes Gerry Wood.
The government believes that by the time of the next election Territorians will have forgotten their record on probity and governing in the public interest, writes Charlie Phillips.
Darwin Council has endorsed a Senate inquiry into the Lee Point development, but there should have been public consultation when the development was first proposed about whether it was an appropriate site for residential development in the first place, writes Sonja Pastor.
After early rain on the first day of the Dry, a non-political, non-ideological rainbow over Howard Springs prompted a reflection on nature’s beauty and shared wonder by Gerry Wood.
The facts and the players involved in the recent appointment of the Northern Territory’s 24th Administrator David Connolly present a morality play which not only illustrates the moral abyss to which we have descended, but also how this decline occurs through the inadequacies and unprincipled actions of our institutional and political leaders, writes John Lawrence.
A citizen science event at Ludmilla Primary School has raised concerns that development proposals in the Ludmilla Creek catchment are being assessed in isolation, without considering their combined impact on one of Darwin’s last natural tidal creek systems, writes Planning Action Network volunteer Sonja Pastor.
If the ABC expects public trust, it should report its own failings as prominently as others, writes Gerry Wood.
