Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman’s contract has been renewed for another five years, but the university council will not say on what basis the decision was made, while the announcement was made two days before Mr Bowman revealed he had hired a friend and her wedding singer husband to run the university’s London campus without publicly advertising the roles.

One of the highest paid Northern Territory public servants, the vice-chancellor is now paid an estimated $700,000-a-year, with Mr Bowman having overseen the university’s expansion and the development of international partnerships, while also leading CDU through part of the pandemic-era disruption.

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