More hidden shares revealed: Fyles blocked investigation into mine she holds undisclosed shares in
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Natasha Fyles secretly holds shares in the company that runs the Gemco manganese mine on Groote Eylandt, that she did not disclose to the public while refusing as Health Minister to investigate the suspected heavy metal poisoning of Indigenous Territorians on the island earlier this year, raising further integrity issues with her leadership and more undisclosed conflicts of interest, the NT Independent can reveal.
Fyles and senior adviser referred for possible criminal conduct to ICAC, police
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles and her senior adviser have been referred for investigation into possible criminal conduct, including allegedly “advancing secret personal interests” and other potential offences, in relation to her senior adviser’s consultancy company acting as the registered lobbyist for Tamboran Resources and Ms Fyles’ breaches of the ministerial code of conduct for not immediately divesting her shares in another gas company.
Editorial: The lobbyists are on the payroll in the NT and our democracy is paying the price
EDITORIAL: It is “absolutely appropriate” Nicole Manison told Territorians this week for the Chief Minister’s most senior adviser to also run a company that lobbies for the gas industry, and in so doing, proved just how corrupt, incompetent and morally compromised this government is.
‘Alarming and outrageous’: Chief Minister’s office defends political adviser’s gas lobby role
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ office has defended senior political adviser Gerard Richardson’s dual roles as adviser to the NT Labor Government and co-owner of a company that lobbies for Tamboran Resources, which the Federal Greens have called “outrageous and alarming”.
Federal MP calls for investigation into Fyles over adviser’s gas industry conflicts of interest, as more details revealed
A federal independent MP has called for a full investigation into Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ office following revelations her senior political adviser’s consultancy firm is the registered lobbyist for Tamboran Resources, while the NT Independent can reveal more details about the extent of his firm’s influence in potentially securing federal funding for the controversial Middle Arm industrial precinct.
Fyles senior adviser’s company is registered lobbyist for gas group approved to frack the Beetaloo, records show
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ most senior political adviser’s consultancy firm is the registered lobbyist for a national gas company that the NT Government approved to frack the Beetaloo Basin and develop a massive Middle Arm LNG project, federal records show, raising further serious conflict of interest concerns involving the NT Government’s gas policies, the NT Independent can reveal.
Fyles failed to publicly disclose another conflict of interest: MLA
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles failed to publicly disclose on her parliamentary register a potential conflict of interest involving her husband working for a major health provider that has reportedly been paid more than a quarter of a billion dollars by the NT Government, an independent MLA says.
Fyles flees press conference amid growing shares scandal
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has followed her predecessor and fled from the NT Independent at a press conference Wednesday morning, leaving in the government SUV so quickly that her media adviser was left standing in the road.
Fyles’ shares scandal not the first for NT Parliament; CLP minister resigned in 2016 for breaching code of conduct
“What is the point of a code of conduct when you see behaviour like this go completely undisciplined,” Territory Labor asked Parliament in 2016, when a CLP minister breached ministerial rules in a private shares scandal. Three days later he resigned. For five days now, Chief Minister Fyles has remained silent on her own breach of the ministerial code of conduct. READ WHAT HAPPENED IN 2016 HERE.
‘It’s a clear breach’: National integrity expert calls for review of Fyles’ conduct
EXCLUSIVE: A national integrity expert has called on the Labor Government’s Cabinet team to immediately deal with Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ “clear breach” of the NT ministerial code of conduct for failing to divest her shares in gas giant Woodside Energy when she obtained them last year.