OPINION: The Charles Darwin University city campus building is harsh, incongruous, non-welcoming and more suited to an industrial, manufacturing environment, and thus a missed opportunity to celebrate the special features and characteristics of the city, writes a former CDU head of the School of Law and Business, and Professor of Governance.
EDITORIAL: Michael Murphy’s appointment as the Territory’s new top cop sends a clear message that nobody in the government wants the major dysfunction and ongoing allegations of corruption facing the NT Police to be cleaned up.
EDITORIAL: Mayor Kon Vatskalis’s heavy-handed approach to dealing with conflict at council by physically banning an elected councillor who criticised the Labor Government is a perfect illustration of Territory Labor’s crush-and-destroy approach to silencing critics – but Kon is doing it in public for everyone to see and that’s where it gets messy.
The authorisation of taxpayers’ money to advance and run Labor’s 2020 election campaign – breathtaking in its audacity, Trumpian in its ethics and arrogant to the point they thought they’d never be caught – has seemingly been embraced by caucus ahead of next year’s election at the expense of our democracy, writes former Labor political adviser Charlie Phillips.
OPINION: The Peppimenarti community is not being protected from the Jovi Boys gang’s crimes by the NT Government or the NT Police, writes the chief executive of Deewin Kirim Aboriginal Corporation, which means his organisation cannot properly provide training, job opportunities, sports and recreation activities, ranger groups, medical services and community development program activities.
In the greater Darwin area we see school aged children wandering around “all day, every day” and being denied an education – what action is Minister Lawler and her well-paid advisors taking, asks Dawn Lawrie.
OPINION: There are serious doubts over the Fyles Government’s Middle Arm ‘sustainable’ development precinct’s environmental credentials, writes a group of university researchers, who argue Australia must focus on achieving genuine emissions reductions, rather than playing risky games with the climate.
How is it that we have to be asking questions about the NT anti-corruption body’s integrity, while our government is under investigation for serious corruption and while other fundamental legal agencies such as the police and the Office of the DPP have also repeatedly failed to act with integrity?
The Territory Labor Government has developed a four-step template to deal with crises arising from its dysfunction, inefficiency and alleged corruption, writes former Labor chief ministerial adviser Charlie Phillips: 1 Deny. 2 Cover up. 3 Delay. 4 Accept no responsibility.
Territorians will be forgiven for thinking this Fyles Labor Government has led us to the brink of complete and utter civil collapse. The way things are going after this week, we’ll all be living in huts, hunting rats with sticks within the next couple of years and remembering a day when politicians took responsibility for their failures before it led to such a complete breakdown.
It is time for all parties to put differences aside, and work in the best interests of the Tennant Creek community and have dogs de-sexed, writes Barkly Regional Council councillor Elliot McAdam.
The Australian Defence Force has taken over the lease of the former Inpex workers’ camp at Howard Springs but the recreation facilities should still be open to the local community as promised at a public meeting before it was built.
