Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has claimed in a statement amid a growing shares scandal that her grandmother bought her what would become Woodside Energy shares in 1985, and that she has recorded them on her parliamentary Register of Members’ Interests for years – which has been contradicted by parliamentary records that show she did not declare any shares until after the last election.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles must immediately divest her shares in gas giant Woodside Energy or abstain from any further Cabinet discussions and public promotion of the Middle Arm industrial precinct, a leading national integrity expert says, amid a growing political storm for the Territory Labor leader.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles’ shares in gas giant Woodside Energy – a proponent of the Labor Government’s proposed Middle Arm precinct – will be examined as part of the upcoming Senate inquiry into the multi-billion dollar gas development, an independent Senator says.
EXCLUSIVE: Chief Minister Natasha Fyles currently holds an undisclosed number of shares in an oil and gas giant backing the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct, raising concerns by critics that her private business interests could affect her government’s policy decisions around gas development, the NT Independent can reveal.
EXCLUSIVE: A damning coronial report critical of the criminal investigation into Zach Rolfe that former police commissioner Jamie Chalker tried to hide ahead of trial was significantly altered just two days after the NT Police brass discovered Mr Rolfe’s legal team knew of its existence, the NT Independent can reveal.
EXCLUSIVE: Kumanjayi Walker would “most likely” still be alive had NT Police followed proper training and policies in Yuendumu the night of November 9, 2019, a damning internal draft coronial report the Police Commissioner tried to suppress from the public, but obtained by the NT Independent, concluded.
EXCLUSIVE: Yuendumu officer-in-charge Sergeant Julie Frost endangered health staff with an ill-fated plan to “deceive” the community, failed to take control of the officers she requested the night Kumanjayi Walker was killed and later told officers to turn off their body-worn cameras, in breach of protocol, a damning internal draft coronial report has revealed.
EXCLUSIVE: NT Police officers in Yuendumu lied to the family of Kumanjayi Walker about his condition the night he was fatally shot and refused to provide mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as he lay dying in a police station, a coronial report prepared by the NT Police and obtained by the NT Independent has revealed.
EXCLUSIVE: A damning coronial report that NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker attempted to hide from the public for more than a year and a half has been obtained by the NT Independent with previous redactions lifted, that shows detectives building the murder case against Constable Zachary Rolfe ignored legal advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in their pursuit to lay a murder charge.
EXCLUSIVE: Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker and the DPP were aware the star witness at the murder trial of Constable Zach Rolfe had his integrity “compromised” by investigators, had involved himself in the investigation due to “pressure” exerted by unknown parties and was found not to understand the law around use of force, but they put him on the stand at the jury trial anyway, according to an internal coronial report Mr Chalker attempted to suppress ahead of the trial.
EXCLUSIVE: Constable Zach Rolfe would not have been recruited into the police force if he had been honest about his military disciplinary history, and the impact of undisclosed medication he was taking for a “psychiatric condition” in the months before shooting and killing Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu will never be known, a draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police states.
EXCLUSIVE: A draft coronial report prepared by the NT Police and obtained by the NT Independent has revealed the shocking extent of police failures in the hours before the shooting death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker in November 2019, including that two of the senior officers in charge of deploying the taskforce that raided his home did not understand how the Immediate Response Team functioned nor how it should be deployed.
