The Federal Infrastructure Minister has responded to her Territory counterpart’s ultimatum on the proposed Alice Springs Aboriginal art gallery, which she suggested may have been political posturing by the CLP to blame the Commonwealth for its desire to bin the project outright, describing Bill Yan’s demand that the feds approve variations by yesterday as “a pretty weird way of trying to work with the Commonwealth”.

Minister Catherine King appeared on radio Thursday morning to publicly respond to NT Infrastructure Minister Bill Yan’s demand on Wednesday that the Albanese Labor Government let him know “by the close of business today” if it supported the CLP’s new scope and variations for the long-delayed project that were filed in July.

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