The NT Independent, while we’re still just a pup at the forefront of breaking Territory news, has a world exclusive – the actual review document the Chief Minister claimed to have thrown away. It is among all that is good and gammon this week.
We need public access to Westin foreshore – and better architecture
OPINION: The public should have access to the foreshore around Darwin’s Westin Hotel construction site writes Carol Phayer, and don’t get her started on the architecture of the hotel itself.
Good n’ Gammon – Edition IV
While life is still good, who would have thought it could all get even more gammon that it already was? From dogs that eat cane toad poo to our ‘roadmap to the new normal’ – more of a Labor state of mind than a place you can live in.
Should the CDU city campus be built?
OPINION: The very large, and expensive Charles Darwin University Darwin CBD campus is too risky and the institution should be focusing on its wide-ranging educational and skills development responsibilities to Territory residents, argues former Professor of Governance and Head of the Schools of Law and Business at CDU, Don Fuller.
Good N Gammon – Edition III
From Secret Ministers for Secret Business to the importance for governments of having good media friends, to putting COVID-19 infectees in cages: what is good and gammon this week.
‘Price to pay’: The unintended consequences of renter pet laws in NT
Where is the hard evidence that shows legislated pet laws will improve the lives of Territorians, asks property consultant Sam Wilks.
Q&A: The impact of world oil price in the NT
Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Northern Territory director Keld Knudsen answers questions on the impact of the drop in the world oil price on the NT.
Good n’ gammon
It has been a big week in the Northern Territory and plenty of good things and very, very gammon things. From the war being over for Ken Vowles, to which MLAs hate dogs, to females finally breaking through the glass dictator ceiling.
Gunner undermines fundamental freedoms by banning press: McMahon
If a locally owned, legitimate media outlet with an experienced bona fide journalist is a threat, then Mr Gunner has some serious accountability issues, writes Senator Sam McMahon.
We need to play our tourism draw card properly when COVID-19 is over: Carol Phayer
Australians will be wary of international travel for a long time and should be seeking sunny days in the Northern Territory after COVID-19, writes Carol Phayer.
Good n’ gammon
Keeping COVID-19 from spreading in the community is good. Gumment is gammon. What we reckon is good and what is gammon this week.
Outlawing questions of a government during a health crisis is un-Territorian
We can think of no greater example of undemocratic conduct than banning a media outlet and restricting the flow of information in a time of public crisis.