NT Independent editor Chris Walsh’s critical analysis of the news of the week on the Territory Story podcast including how the ICAC and the parliamentary investigations into MLA Mark Turner’s conduct were dropped, NT business owners fears of closures and job losses with the vaccine mandate, and Michael Gunner’s controversial deleted ‘sex worker’ Facebook post.
NT Independent editor Chris Walsh’s critical analysis of the news of the week on the Territory Story podcast including how ICAC will not re-investigate the flawed procurement contract that lead to the police commissioner’s recruitment, NT Heath’s internal investigations that identified concerns with nepotism, and the Police Minister saying NT cops being the ‘best in the nation’ is the reason attrition rate has doubled.
Charles Darwin University’s City Deal Darwin campus could be a poisoned chalice that may well reduce its capacity to spend on teaching and research, argues the University of Technology Sydney’s Honorary Professional Fellow Geoff Hanmer.
A critical analysis of the news of the week on the Territory Story podcast including more about the Darwin Turf Club grandstand scandal, why ‘freedom’ rally participants were not fined by police, and the truth behind Palmerston alderman hopeful Raj Rajwin’s claim he was pre-selected by the CLP in 2016.
There is a serious problem with water law and water management in the Northern Territory. And new pieces of legislation the Northern Land Council said were a “betrayal of the interests of all Territorians”, are set to make it worse, according to a group of academics.
Talk of healing, care, and well-being is woven throughout the prime minister’s refreshed Closing the Gap agreement and implementation package announced this week. However, measures to promote healing and care will only be treating the symptoms and not the cause while governments continue inflicting harm on Indigenous people, a group of academics argue.
We told you we would focus on exposing corruption – in the government, public service and elsewhere – and that we would be shaking up the media landscape in this town that was long ago compromised by different interests affecting how your stories are told and that led to public interest issues covered up.
NT Independent readers were critical of the NT News editor’s pledge to provide favourable media coverage to those facing investigation over the misuse of public funds in the grandstand scandal; and concerns continue over how a senior public servant was allowed to choose the new anti-corruption watchdog while being involved in ongoing inquiries. These are the letters to the editor this week.
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NT Independent editor Chris Walsh talks this week with Territory Story podcast hosts Leon Loganathan and Peter Gowers about Budget Estimates,more on the Darwin Turf Club grandstand scandal, how police were threatened with ICAC over youth arrests, and the rejection of the FU GUNER number plate, among other topics.
City bylaws are intended for the good governance of the community, but some of Darwin Council’s new proposed bylaws may not pass the test. Under new dog bylaw reforms, if your dog’s tag falls off while in public you can be fined $155 on the spot regardless of the circumstances. This week, retired lawyer Sally Gearin explores some of the problems with Council’s new dog bylaws.
OPINION: Simona Paganetto founded I’m Plastic Free, which brings together ethical and sustainable Australian small businesses and connects them to consumers. Here she writes about society’s problem with plastic waste.
