'Too cowardly or too arrogant': Chief Minister silent on coronial findings | NT Independent

‘Too cowardly or too arrogant’: Chief Minister silent on coronial findings

by | Jul 10, 2025 | Cops, News, NT Politics, Subscriber | 7 comments

Chief Minister and Police Minister Lia Finocchiaro has remained silent for three days on the Coroner
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7 Comments

  1. First off: ‘The Northern Territory attorney-general has announced a proposed racism review into the NT Police Force (NTPF) has been scrapped.’

    Any NT Government who does this, based on the Territory’s long and chequered history of racism generally, knows exactly what is in there and doesn’t want it exposed by a racism review. Plain and simple.

    Therefore by doing so, you are actively enabling more racism by making sure it is not made public.

    But we know that you know that.

    In the same way you are enabling more corruption by having your long time friend and confidant, career NT public servant and protector of the powerful Greg Shamahan heading the ICAC office.

    He’s still in there by the way, beavering away, making sure corruption is not exposed because that’s what he put in his recommendations and that’s what the ALP and CLP both voted for.

    You see, they can adopt recommendations when they want to.

    When those recommendations help protect them and their mates.

    They can adopt recommendations when they assist a potential offender friend of theirs escape prosecution, when they want to.

    Secondly, onto Selena Stays Silent Uibo, until it suits her personally to speak.

    You sound exactly like Professor Boofby: just spewing out partisan name calling rubbish, trying to score weak and pathetic political points to get your name back in the media.

    Readers of this fine publication will know that neither my husband nor I have any particular affiliations or love – except for the new NT Party ‘Change For Better’ of course because they’re a different breed altogether – for either of the big 2 political parties.

    We value honesty and integrity no matter where it comes from.

    Here’s one of Selena Stays Silent’s headlines when she went from a remote school classroom teacher to Attorney General (another non-qualified puppet):

    ‘Territory’s Indigenous Attorney-General plans to ‘make a big difference’ in Top End’

    Is this how you make your ‘big difference’ Selena?

    Calling the CM names.

    What a champion you are. Truly.

    You’re the leadershit we’ve all been waiting for, what a legend.

    Different thinking, different solutions, different ‘big difference’, same juvenile names.

    Again, we throw the same criticism at you that we threw at Professor Boofby:

    have you got anything interesting to say about the content of situation with ways to help address the deep cultural and systemic problems we shamefully have to admit to in the NT again and again and again?

    You had a valuable media opportunity to say something useful, helpful, maybe even profound.

    To show us your vision and commitment, your heart and soul, your grasp of public policy meets societal unrest, your timeline for evidence based outcomes, your forward thinking for addressing this ugly and insidious problem called racism.

    You chose to do none of that.

    You chose instead to do what you’ve always done:

    Call the other party names.

    For the privilege of listening to your petulance we must pay you a base salary of $175,000, plus benefits and expense accounts.

    Holy f**k right off.

    You should be paying that to us to listen to you.

    Another embarrassing attempt to score crappy throwaway political points that really mean nothing – do you think people watching this don’t share your view already anyway? – is not helping anyone.

    But of course, we both know that’s all you’ve got, really. You don’t have any answers or advice or solutions, much the same as all the other NT imposters pretending to be politicians.

    You’re all out of genuine ideas.

    We all know the Crappy Littleminded Party run by all the Crappy Likeminded People, behind the scenes and out front, don’t have a f**king clue what to do.

    Here’s a quick and dirty list of barnstorming, game changing ideas we’ve had delivered to us in the last few months:

    They’ve tried locking up all the kids, younger and younger.

    They’ve tried sacking the Police Commissioner.

    They’ve tried to make sure there is no outside eyes on the NT Police Force.

    They’ve tried to convince us that’s it OK to ignore racist Police officers and allow them to still be employed, our tax dollars pay for that in case you all forgot.

    They’ve tried to ignore the cronyism and nepotism in the NT Police Force.

    They’ve tried announcing more guns in the hands of non-Police members.

    They’re tried to tell us that the NT Police Force doesn’t need a racism review like everywhere else in the NT Government arena does.

    They’ve tried to sell us Boot Camps as the answer to rehabilitate those violent criminals.
    Never been tried before, nope, no one has ever thought of that idea previously, nope. A sure fire winner. Not.

    They’ve tried to keep force feeding the message that they’re interested in community safety when everyone in the community knows it’s getting worse and less safe.

    They’ve tried to tell us arming the public with pepper spray is the answer to the worsening crime problems.

    They’re tried to pretend that they alone have all the solutions, instead of listening to experts in the field and taking on their decent and measured and experienced advice.

    All of these FAILS are not addressing the causes; they are only band aids hastily placed on the symptoms, which is exactly why they will continue to FAIL.

    Selena Stays Silent. We wish you had.

    Take a leaf out of little LiaR’s book this time.

    Or at the very least, think more deeply next time before you open your mouth.

  2. Are you all nuts, how about publishing a picture of this outrageous coroner delivering her findings withe her rabble rousing antipolice flag, I note the media is hiding this, particularly the ABC. Rolfe should not have to apply for a judicial review the powerless Chief Magistrate and Chief Justice should already have arranged that.

    • **wolf whistles**

      Oooooh Professor Boofby, look at you go, Tiger. Rraaaaarrrrr.

      Getting all paying attention to the actual story this time with us.

      Soon you’ll be doing line spacing and paragraphs.

      Empty one liners begone!

      • I suggest you open the other eye and watch the presentation.

  3. Zachary Rolfe’s response to the NT Coroner’s report as quoted in the NT News newspaper 9 July 2025 –

    “The severity of Coroner Elizabeth Armitage’s criticism inadvertently highlights how effective the
    police have safeguarded her privileged position, granting a level of security and comfort that
    insulates her from the harsh realities faced daily by frontline officers, and more importantly, by countless victims of crime throughout the Northern Territory.”

    In his statement Mr. Rolfe said Ms. Armitage had made findings from “a place of safety” while
    vulnerable communities continue to endure the direct and brutal consequences of violent crime,
    deserving far more robust policing rather than criticisms rooted criticisms rooted in detachment.”

    “The coroner’s infantilisation of indigenous communities does not empower but rather
    diminishes agency and reinforces depend dependency,” Mr. Rolfe said in his statement.

    • Lucio t
      Rolfe was right this whole coronial should be examined by ICAC and Chris should stop blaming Lia for Labor’s missteps. The supreme court jury got it right.

  4. “[anything] examined by ICAC”

    We were going to make a joke about ICAC, however no need, because ICAC is the joke.

    Too much weight for one man’s shoulders, eh Professor? Right back to “it’s all Labor’s fault”.

    Oh well, you gave it a good Aussie go. Thanx for trying. **hugs emoji**

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