REVEALED: Shields attempted to arrange taxpayer cash for mate's sister to sit on waterfront board | NT Independent

REVEALED: Shields attempted to arrange taxpayer cash for mate’s sister to sit on waterfront board

by | Apr 3, 2025 | Business, News, NT Politics, On the Waterfront, Subscriber | 9 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Darwin Waterfront Corporation chief executive Alastair Shields advocated for his mate And
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9 Comments

  1. The whole corporation, at the top levels, appears to be an incestuous nest of worms.

  2. The trough in the NT is massive. I wanna get my snout in. Sadly, I’m too competent to be eligible

  3. “The proposal was ultimately rejected by Ms Fyles, with records indicating Ms Ryan resigned from the board three weeks later and was replaced by public servant Tim McManus at no cost to taxpayers”.

    This salient little point may have been more useful at paragraph 3 rather than 33 (or wherever it was buried).

    • Sir, it does not hide the efforts of a highly questionable executive team to get their mates “in on it”!!

  4. A high-pressure fire hose to remove the swill. Federal intervention without fear or favor. We need a clean out of these arrogant elitest dopes.

  5. ~At the risk of repeating our household’s views on the ‘same tiresome shit different day’ goings on at the latest incarnation of the Keystone NTG-Cops (excuse the pun), we will link to our comment which covers a lot of what’s going on with DWC and this article:

    https://ntindependent.com.au/i-dont-have-any-answers-minister-draws-blank-on-why-waterfront-corp-under-her-control-chief-of-staffs-conflict-raised/

    We also recommend people search for then read and listen to commenter ‘Jane Davies’ as she knows a lot more about the background to DWC.

    In addition:

    ‘Mr Shields, who is a long-time friend of Ms Ryan’s and Mr Kirkman’s, did not disclose any potential conflict of interest in the memo requesting Ms Ryan start being paid for the role.’

    ~He doesn’t have to because neither the ALP nor the CLP care about nepotism or conflicts of interest. In fact, they fully support them because all of their own friends, family, extended family, friends of extended family etc are all able to make themselves financially secure with millions of dollars worth of apathetic Territorians’ taxes.

    ~Mr Shields is also a long time friend of many others in the NT career public service and judiciary with more friends who will be doing the same.

    ~They only get away with this kind of blatant rorting of the system because both the ALP and CLP set it up this way, then populated it with their mates/family and all benefitted when the so-called ‘Leaders’ looked the other way while millions were siphoned off from more important projects.

    ~Don’t forget: every $10,000 that goes into the pockets and ever fattening Super balances of the Kirkmans, Ryans, Shields, Lawlers, Finocchiaros, Burkes, Gunners, etc is $10,000 that should be being spent on the most vulnerable members of our society.

    ~They are stealing from us and laughing about it every time they send an email or write a memo which is then signed off by Eva Lawless or LiaR Finocchiaro. See our previous comment for details.

    ~This whole humiliating NT Governance charade is quite sickening to be honest.

    ~Every ‘leader’, who does nothing about this, is complicit.

    ~It’s clear they don’t care. Actually, the only thing they seem to care about is enriching themselves and their family and their mates, at our expense.

    **vomit emoji**

    Sadly, the long term NT Government leeches are getting more and more like Imelda Marcos by the day.

    ~They are disease ridden Ticks. All of them. Sucking the financial-blood out of the host, once engorged, their bank balances bloated and swollen, they’ll then disengage and wander off into the weeds to digest all the money they’ve extracted from the host, while the host is further weakened, stumbling around waiting for the next new ALP/CLP-tick infestation.

    We need a total Change For Better.

    ~PS: can someone please find a way to sue these people and/or the DWC/other Government Reps or Agencies?

    ~That way you can test laughable comments like this in a public Court proceeding:

    “Any allegation that my conduct has not been appropriate is firmly refuted.”

    ~A couple of ideas from legal friends of ours: we mentioned before about WorkCover claims regarding anxiety and depressed mood calling on Adjustment Disorders. This forces things into the public legal arena to be further reported on.l

    ~Another might be, we’re told: if you have a connection to some of those people then file an application for pre-action/preliminary discovery. This will allow you access to emails and information held by these organisations which may be defamatory about you. You file the application in order to get access to the secret emails behind the scenes to assess the merits of a possible defamation proceeding against them or someone they’re talking to about you.

    ~Sunlight is one of the best disinfectants apparently.

  6. 2023/24 DWC Board funnelled $31 million through several accounts & includes the convention centre & CDU Waterfront campus, they are skimming a % of Wharf 1 & 2 Toga apartments body corporate rates in secret, yet the networked Parkside & Quayside committee & Principle Committee are planning to increase our rates again. For what? $10,000.00 a year is too high?

    As a Waterfront owner I am exposing the rorts thanks to the current CLP CM Lia Finnochiaro’s Chief Media Adviser Matt Williams. As the 2016-21 NT News Editor he breached privacy & code of conduct on 18/11/2016. I share my content from the Waterfront on TikTok, Insta-gram, Facebook & X as the NTG mafia make it to dangerous to live here safely.

  7. Good morning and have a great weekend all,

    To Savanman-I find there is a great propensity with people nowadays to sideways assess moments. The weight afforded to the intent to act inappropriately/corruptly/ criminally, regardless of the final outcome, should always be the focus! Drafting the memo was a critical moment of wrongful intent- Simple and the more we streamline our assessment towards judgement the less BS we have to filter through!
    Part 2- Territorians are not stupid, simple or lacking passion so it must be acknowledged and reasonably assumed that all of these many dubious moments have been known by ALP CLP members! I again mention a simple significant fact that it appears neither party has sought to enforce law/procedural compliance with any of these most serious raised issues! NO and either have we heard our federal representatives show strength and respect for Territorians whilst this shenanigans prospers!
    NO IT HAS TAKEN TERRITORIANS STEEPING UP AND PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE NT INDEPENDANT, damming information that Territorians would never have heard because the NT News, we’ll need l say more!
    Your One Nation Senate candidate that’s more than a bit pissed off with corruption, lack of in our leadership and poor show here in the Territory
    Darren Nugent
    Look forward to meeting you at Coolalinga shops tomorrow morning and yes lm making good old Aussie chocolate crackles, why not life should be good!

  8. It does not matter the details of who did what and when!

    What matters is we all know the current CLP Government will do nothing about this issue.

    I encourage you all to consider sending a message to the CLP powerbrokers via the Saturday 3 May 2025 that the CLP are not good enough.
    Please vote for anyone other than Labor or CLP at the Federal Election.

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