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WEBThe 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 Lia Finocchiaro that pays up to $300,000 a year, despite having no experience as …
News - NT Independent
WEBby Independent Staff | Sep 17, 2024 | News, Subscriber. The CLP Government’s proposal to reduce the age of criminal responsibility will result in increased youth crime and elevated rates of Indigenous incarceration in the NT, the federal Productivity Commission has warned, while the Chief Minister has defended the move, calling critics ...
Parliament sitting dates announced, government promises bail …
WEB2 days ago · The first sitting of the Northern Territory Parliament under the new Finocchiaro Government will begin on October 15, and run for two weeks, with the government saying it will introduce its promised bail reforms, increase the age of criminal responsibility, and bring in minimum mandatory sentences for assaulting frontline workers in the first week.
NT Politics - NT Independent
WEBby Christopher Walsh | Sep 11, 2024 | News, NT Politics. The former editor of the NT News, who left the job after his involvement in the Darwin Turf Club’s grandstand scandal was made public and who wrote an editorial backing the federal Labor Party in 2019, has been named director of communications for the Finocchiaro CLP Government.
News Briefs | NT Independent
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Today’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 ...
Government ban on the NT Independent appears to be lifted
WEBDec 21, 2023 · Chief Minister Eva Lawler appears to have lifted the Labor Government’s ban on the NT Independent, inviting this publication to her first press conference on Thursday afternoon where she took questions. The Labor Government under Michael Gunner first banned the NT Independent on questionable legal grounds shortly after it …
What happened? The NT Independent’s biggest stories from July …
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.
Comprehensive election bloodbath upholds pattern of low voter …
WEB6 days ago · The Electoral Commission has made concerted efforts to increase both enrolment and turnout rates in remote communities, but the figures remain stubbornly low. Remote enrolments increased in the lead-up to The Voice referendum last year, yet the NTEC indicated that fewer than 45 per cent of eligible …
NT economy still the worst performer in the country, latest …
WEBApr 22, 2024 · Further to the latest Commsec Report this week about the Northern Territory Economy, the rates of insecure employment and staff turnover in the NT Public Service contributes to reducing and or stagnating population growth in the Northern Territory, which in turn, reduces Northern Territory economic growth.
COVID-19 | NT Independent
WEBThe NT Government has rushed extraordinary amendments through Parliament Thursday night to retrospectively “validate” the Chief Health Officer’s vaccine mandate directions, raising suspicions the government had not properly enacted the orders the first time, which one legal expert said has “demolished the rule of law in the NT” and would most likely draw the attention of the Federal ...
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