Diana Rickard from Berry Springs writes the Member for Daly Dehran Young is being illusive, and follows on from the “invisible” member he replaced, and asks is Daly destined to have a future of party puppets who are paid to boost the numbers without caring about the people?

Wayne Wood writes the parlous state of NT Government finances is simply a product of laziness by the public servants whose job it is to collect revenue and ignorance on the part of ministers who should hold their staff to account.

The NT Independent’s Naughty or Nice list. Today, we have the people behind the Territory’s COVID-19 response, versus one person who made them all very necessary.

The NT Independent’s Naughty or Nice list. Today, we have the secret people trying to make the Territory a better place, versus a man who had a very public fall after looking after his business at the expense of taxpayers.

Today, on the Naughty or Nice list, we have a medical professional dedicated to remote health and a particular type of worm, versus two senior public servants who dodgied up tenders scores for ‘non-defensible’ reason.

Today, on the Naughty or Nice list, we have a politician who has taken up the mantle of protecting the integrity of NT Parliament versus a powerful figure dabbling in secrecy and intrigue.

Here is today’s Naughty or Nice list. In this installment, we look back at the main players involved in the Labor cocaine sex scandal.

This is the NT Independent Naughty or Nice list. Today we have one person fearlessly investigating the government, versus a man at the head of an organisation that promised much but may have been swallowed up by Clown Town.

Former member for Nightcliff Dawn Lawrie writes that despite successive disastrous governments from the CLP and Labor, the Northern Territory still needs self-government, after the long struggle to attain it.

There has been a decline in the Northern Territory’s legal system, Darwin barrister John Lawrence writes, with its major victims being Aboriginal Australians, and women, who are subject to Australia’s greatest scourge, the increase in domestic violence. Just like the country’s slide towards totalitarianism, this decline of the legal system has been incremental, he writes.

Throughout the year, the NT Independent has been keeping an eye on all of you and have produced a naughty and nice list. Today we feature some Territorians selflessly serving their community, versus a man who used his taxpayer funded job against the rules, to help his brother-in-law get re-elected.

NT Independent editor Chris Walsh’s critical analysis of the news of the week on the Territory Story podcast, including discussion of calls for the Health Minister to resign as a $4.3m consultancy deal is sent to ICAC, and how more than 30 NT cops resigned or retired in past two months. And yes, so much more.