EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro’s claims that she was unaware of criminal animal abuse charges against Territory Coordinator Stuart Knowles before she appointed him have been seemingly contradicted by a May 2023 email sent to her from a whistleblower, detailing the animal abuse investigation cover-up and other alleged misconduct concerning current Mining and Energy CEO Alister Trier, who ordered the charges against Mr Knowles be dropped.
Deputy Chief Minister Gerard Maley’s brother acted as referee for incoming Legal Aid director Catherine Voumard, who was picked for the role by Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby against the recommendations of an independent selection panel, an MLA said in Parliament Wednesday, after Ms Boothby suggested Ms Voumard should have been interviewed for the role because of her connections to Peter Maley’s law firm.
A 71-year-old worker was seriously injured and nearly died after slicing his face and throat with a nine-inch angle grinder during reno work at a Winnellie industrial shed, NT WorkSafe said, while issuing a public safety alert.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government has ordered yet another inquiry to explore voluntary assisted dying laws in the Northern Territory – less than a year after the last comprehensive inquiry – which comes amid pressure in Parliament on the government to finally implement the laws and opposition from the Australia Christian Lobby.
A Freedom of Information application seeking a departmental brief provided to former environment minister Kate Worden last year that recommended prosecution of Empire Energy was rejected on legal privilege grounds, a government letter shows, while the department appears to have attempted to cover up one of the three alleged offences referred to in the document.
The Health Department’s chief executive says the department will “really carefully” manage the deal it intends to sign with a company to run the closed hyperbaric chamber unit at Royal Darwin Hospital, after it was revealed that company’s sole director is the wife of the director of a company that previously held the same contract and went into administration, with its contract terminated by the NT Government.
A man was tasered while being arrested after allegedly ramming a vehicle into the front of a house in Gray on Saturday, also hitting two of the occupants who were in the front yard, NT Police said.
Three board members of Legal Aid NT have resigned following Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby’s appointment of Catherine Voumard as the organisation’s new director, which contradicted an independent selection panel’s recommendation, an internal email shows.
The nearly year-long investigation into allegations of improper conduct by anti-corruption commissioner Michael Riches involving female employees in the workplace has finally been completed and referred to ICAC Inspector Bruce McClintock, but the findings of the report will not be released publicly yet, Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said.
A woman has a serious eye injury after a brick was thrown through a side window of a vehicle she was a passenger in that was driving near the entrance to the Bagot community in Ludmilla, NT Police said.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro will not say if she recommended the Attorney-General directly appoint Catherine Voumard as director of Legal Aid NT, a decision that undermined the recommendations of an independent panel struck to hire for the role, which Ms Voumard was not interviewed for.
The CLP government has revealed the new Northern Suburbs Youth Hub will be located at the Leanyer Waterpark Recreation Precinct, rather than at the previous site of the old Casuarina Fire Station on Rowling St, which had been selected by the former Labor government two years ago.
