Secret memo reveals Kirkman recommended Waterfront CEO’s pay rise before his wife was hired
EXCLUSIVE: Senior government executive Andrew Kirkman advocated for a pay rise for Darwin Waterfront Corporation CEO Alastair Shields, despite various conflicts of interest and while he was acting head public servant, six months before the DWC hired Mr Kirkman’s wife for an unadvertised role on a hefty pay packet, a secret government memo obtained by the NT Independent has revealed.
Senior officers accessed evidence on computer drives ahead of ICAC perjury probe
EXCLUSIVE: Senior NT Police officers who lied to the Coroner in sworn statements accessed internal police records stored on computer drives ahead of the ICAC’s investigation into their conduct, with at least one of them allegedly attempting to delete evidence of the racist TRG awards, the NT Independent can reveal.
One of five officers who misled court involved in ‘most coon-like BBQ’ award, another had name on ‘Noogudah club’
EXCLUSIVE: Two senior NT Police officers who lied to the court about the existence of racist TRG awards in sworn statements were heavily involved in their making and awarding, the NT Independent can reveal, with one officer who denied the existence of a “coon of the year award” having been involved in awarding the “most coon-like BBQ” certificate in 2007, while another senior officer had his name engraved on the ‘Noogudah club’ – an improvised weapon seized from a remote community during riots that he told the court was “never linked to Indigenous people”.
Revealed: Secret police officer stat dec about ‘racist and inexcusable’ awards contradicts ICAC findings
EXCLUSIVE: A secret statutory declaration filed by one of the five officers accused of lying to the courts about the racist TRG awards shows the officer later admitted to personally creating slide shows with racist images between 2015 and 2022 – directly contradicting the Office of the ICAC’s assertions the racist awards stopped in 2015 – while raising further questions about why none of the officers have been charged for providing false statements to the court.
NT Police lawyer requested sworn statements from officers that were later revealed as misleading
EXCLUSIVE: The man who organised five senior NT Police officers to sign sworn statements that the racist Nooguda awards were not racist has refused to answer questions about why those five officers were chosen and what was said to them before their misleading statements were tendered to the court, the NT Independent can reveal.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy misled two separate coronial inquests this year
EXCLUSIVE: NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy misled Coroner Elisabeth Armitage in two separate coronial inquests, first when he claimed at the inquest into domestic violence that a senior officer who shared a picture on social media of a half-naked domestic violence survivor could not be disciplined because it would affect his family and later when he claimed at another inquest that he would order a review into the matter.
Lawler says Labor will not reimburse taxpayers for 2020 election travel rorts
Chief Minister Eva Lawler says Labor will not reimburse taxpayers for the public money it used to fly former chief minister Michael Gunner to remote communities in marginal electorates on polling days in the lead up to the 2020 election because it was all too “ambiguous” and refused to condemn the conduct that was the focus of a three-year ICAC investigation.
‘This is a farce’: MLA calls for inquiry into ICAC after failure to hold Labor and Gunner accountable for election rorts
Anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches “refuses to call out misconduct, mismanagement and corruption”, an independent MLA says, despite having evidence that Territory Labor and Michael Gunner used public funds for party political purposes at the 2020 election, calling for an inquiry into the Office of the ICAC’s conduct.
‘No concluded findings’: ICAC releases first of two reports into Labor’s taxpayer-funded 2020 campaign
The NT anti-corruption watchdog’s long-delayed report into Territory Labor’s taxpayer-funded 2020 election campaign has ended with “no concluded findings” of whether former chief minister Michael Gunner “did or did not engage in improper conduct”, but flagged a secret second report will be provided to current Chief Minister Eva Lawler next month concerning Labor staffers’ involvement.
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.