It was a two-hour session that saw a scattershot approach to asking questions, that seemed to veer in every direction at seemingly every moment. But a few facts emerged.
Quarantine agitator forced to Howard Springs facility for being ‘inappropriate’
A quarantined man who police identified as a trouble-maker since arriving in town has been picked up for “inappropriate behaviour” at a local hotel and forced into a former workers camp.
COVIDIOT breaks quarantine to go to MVR to register car
A further eight people have been fined for breaching quarantine orders, including a woman who escaped from the Darwin hotel she was ordered to stay at.
Gunner moves potential coronavirus carriers after feeling heat
Chief Minister Michael Gunner ordered the removal of potential COVID-19 carriers from a luxury residential building half way through their quarantine because he felt they should be in a “more traditional hotel situation”.
AFP officers arrived on commercial flights, not quarantined before sent to remote communities
Members of the AFP’s Northern Territory contingent to protect remote communities arrived on the same commercial flights as dozens of quarantined civilians.
Million dollar dunny: FOI reveals cost to taxpayers of Inpex workers’ camp
The Gunner Government spent nearly $2 million over nine months to maintain the deserted Howard Springs Inpex village before the federal government used it as a coronavirus quarantine facility, internal documents obtained by the NT Independent reveal.