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WEBThe Director of the Centre for Public Integrity has described as “absurd” a decision by the Acting Independent Commissioner Against Corruption to suppress the name of a former Supreme Court judge she briefed to oversee the continuing investigation of the then-Labor government’s misuse of public resources during the 2020 general election.
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WEBby David Wood | Sep 26, 2024 | News, NT Politics, Subscriber. The Director of the Centre for Public Integrity has described as “absurd” a decision by the Acting Independent Commissioner Against Corruption to suppress the name of a former Supreme Court judge she briefed to oversee the continuing investigation of the then-Labor government’s ...
Opinion: Rising social conflicts and escalating debt, mean a bleak ...
WEB8 hours ago — Foremost amongst some of the worst examples of this have occurred in NT land councils, and are still continuing. For example, the Commonwealth has recently frozen funding for the Anindilyakwa Land Council, after it failed to act on recommendations following a governance probe. The audit came ahead of claims the ALC misused millions of dollars in mining royalties, some of which benefited ...
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WEBby Christopher Walsh | Sep 20, 2024 | Business, News, NT Politics, Subscriber. The CLP Government’s director of communications is being paid more money than the NT’s head of nursing and midwifery and more than every new CLP minister, the NT Independent can reveal, with former NT News editor Matt Williams given the plum gig by Chief Minister ...
Opinion - NT Independent
WEBby Opinion | Aug 29, 2024 | Opinion. Running the government of the Northern Territory is immensely difficult, writes Willem Westra van Holthe, Lia’s team will have to make haste and do their best to bring the people of the Territory along with them on the ride. This was a part of the reason the Giles government was smashed to bits in 2016.
COVID-19 | NT Independent
WEBThe NT Government has advised Territorians to be vigilant as Covid-19 cases driven by the BA4 and BA5 Omicron variants spiked with 353 cases recorded overnight, placing active cases at 1,977 of which 19 are in hospital.
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WEBJan 14, 2023 — Taxpayers to pick up NT hospitality industry’s $200k UK trip to recruit bar staff. A group of Darwin publicans and government officials will fly to the UK in February to recruit a hundred or so bartenders, chefs and wait staff from British pubs, the Fyles Government has announced, at a cost to taxpayers of $200,000. READ the full story here.
News Briefs | NT Independent
WEB3 days ago — by Independent Staff | Sep 18, 2024 | News, News Brief. Today’s national news includes the Albanese administration being criticized for an immigration mishap, the government allocating $3.6 million for women’s health literacy, Future Made in Australia assistant minister Tim Ayres said Labor is attentively listening to the business sector ...
News Brief | NT Independent
WEBToday’s national news includes Assistant Citizenship Minister Julian Hill slamming the Opposition for its “fear-based scare campaign” on Palestinian refugees receiving visas, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Price saying that the upcoming NT election will be a very close fight, Australian solar project being cancelled by Origin due to unfavourable conditions, and ...
NT’s waterfowl hunting season runs until early January
WEB2 days ago — The Northern Territory waterfowl hunting season has begun, and will run until January 6, with a daily bag limit of seven magpie geese, and ten ducks per person daily, the NT government has said. Tourism and Hospitality Minister Marie-Clare Boothby said the season started on Wednesday, and the magpie good bag …