Seniors and those with disabilities who are recovering from injury and surgery are being turned away from access to the Palmerston Regional Hospital hydrotherapy pool by NT Health, writes Craig Hubbard.
Opinion: A tale of two Houses
Leanne Liddle’s current role is a big gig – not only does she have to convince police that their workplace is mired in systemic racism, she has to teach them exactly what that means and convince them to reject it – no easy task when you consider the colonial history of Australia, never mind the tinderbox that is the Northern Territory where the CLP government trades heavily on its tough-on-crime mantra, writes Dr Robyn Smith.
Letter to the editor: Outsourcing public housing along with accountability
The NT government has effectively outsourced public housing and accountability to organisations like Venture and Yilli Housing which have become taxpayer-funded distractions from a broken housing system, writes Luke Sheahen.
The Darwin Ship Lift is a toxic deal for the Northern Territory
EDITORIAL: We simply cannot afford to build a billion dollar Ship Lift facility for a bunch of billionaires to profit from while the rest of us pay for it over the next 50 years – when will Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro stand up for Territorians and shirtfront the Paspaley Group over this?
Letter to the editor: Creating the Australian Pub Championships could turn the Build-up into a drawcard
Aussie pub culture is built on the harsh climates of remote Australia and we are in the perfect place to benefit from this, writes Owen Pike. So how can we turn the disadvantageous weather at this time of year into an economic advantage? The Australian Pub Championships.
The Finocchiaro Fyles: The CLP is the new ALP in the Northern Territory and we are all losing
EDITORIAL: There’s no sense arguing anymore if the previous Labor government was worse than the current Finocchiaro CLP Government – this government has simply picked up where Labor left off and every other self-serving, egomanic government we’ve had over the years, that puts its elected members’ interests and its mates above all Territorians.
The NT Police Force was finally broken this week
EDITORIAL: There is no way to overstate the damage the Justice Blow report has had on the already fragile Northern Territory Police Force, its members and the trust every Territorian should have in its police service. It shows an organisation paralysed in the face of its challenges, overcome with infighting and accusations, its senior and most experienced officers’ morale shattered and the culture of a once-proud police service left to rot from the inside out.
Dangerous climate change threatens Northern Australia’s big Asian ‘food bowl’ dreams
Australia’s first national climate risk report warns Northern Australia faces the harshest impacts, with extreme heatwaves, bushfires, flooding and tropical cyclones, intensifying safety and security risks, potentially resulting in loss of life, destabilisation of community structures, and increased migration away from the north, writes Steven Turton.
When the Useful Idiot is no longer useful: It’s time for the Attorney-General to go
EDITORIAL: If we needed any further proof that Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby is completely out of her depth in her role as the Northern Territory’s first law officer, it came this week during her latest disaster that led the public to once again question the integrity of its government institutions. It’s time for her to resign or be sacked to restore some modicum of confidence in our beleaguered justice system.
NT’s deep integrity crisis will not be fixed by new integrity commission
EDITORIAL: The Northern Territory’s public integrity bodies’ ongoing dysfunction is due in part to the CLP Government’s own integrity failures, its insistence on bypassing democratic standards and its stubborn refusal to recognise investment in accountability is crucial to the future of the Territory instead of viewing transparency as a threat to its day-to-day business model.
The Chief Minister once condemned Gunner for dodging the free press. She is now doing it herself
EDITORIAL: Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro is openly dodging media scrutiny and public accountability of her actions that should alarm voters and every journalist in the Territory, especially considering she once condemned Michael Gunner for “ignoring a media outlet”, stifling the free press and obstructing the public’s right to question its elected officials.
Here’s why the Waterfront scandal won’t go away
EDITORIAL: The Finocchiaro CLP Government doesn’t seem to understand the only way to make a political scandal go away is to confront it head-on, complete with resignations, if not from the politicians overseeing the dysfunction, then from those who engaged in and benefitted from it, with a thoroughly independent investigation to follow.