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REVEALED: Here’s what Territory Labor is hiding in its 2024 election campaign review

ANALYSIS: Fifteen months ago, Territory Labor Leader Selena Uibo was handed a review of the party’s crushing 2024 election defeat prepared by the national executive, which she promptly hid and refused to make public. Today, the NT Independent can reveal the contents of that report show the party has yet to fully come to terms with why Territorians booted it from office and failed to learn any lessons from one of the worst political defeats in Territory history.

Confusion over Local Court judge appointments amid allegations of politicisation

The NT’s acting Chief Judge was forced to issue an extraordinary “correction” earlier this week after an email from the courts’ deputy registrar stated there would be no new Local Court judges appointed “in the foreseeable future” necessitating cancelled court lists in an already over-stretched system, which kicked off allegations in legal circles that the CLP Government had rejected the appointment of new judges on the grounds that their alleged politics did not align with the ruling party’s.

NT Police officers shared AI-generated sexually ‘explicit’ image of senior cop

Former NT Police assistant commissioner Janelle Tonkin has taken aim at the NT Police Force’s toxic culture, after her official police picture was altered with AI to make it sexually suggestive and shared amongst an unknown number of officers, saying the police force has “real work to do” to make it safe and respectful for women and minorities.

Teen girl tasered after stabbing cop: Police

UPDATED: A 14-year-old girl was tasered by police in the Darwin CBD Tuesday afternoon after she allegedly stabbed a police officer with a kitchen knife, injuring his upper arm and chest, NT Police said.

$Opinion: CLP out of touch on AI data centres and fracking$

Opinion: CLP out of touch on AI data centres and fracking

There is no current market for production-scale Beetaloo gas fracking until a pipeline is built, so the CLP has announced plans for a string of water-guzzling, AI data centres powered by Beetaloo fracking, writes Bree Ahrens, that might make things easier for the fracking industry, but there’s no happy ending for Territorians.

‘Very difficult to work with’: Feds sum up Finocchiaro CLP Govt after meeting to discuss funding priorities

Federal Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says the Finocchiaro CLP Government is gaining a reputation as being “very difficult to work with” following a meeting on Friday that the Federal Labor Government scheduled to discuss why the NT was leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table in unclaimed flood disaster relief payments and why other money it has collected from the Commonwealth is not being spent on domestic violence prevention, remote housing and in other crucial areas.

NT Police officer charged over alleged DV incident

UPDATED: A 42-year-old NT Police officer has been suspended on full pay after being charged with aggravated assault and served with a domestic violence order following an incident at a Palmerston home while the male officer was off-duty, NT Police said.

Major upgrade of key Alice Springs intersection put to tender

Alice Springs is set to receive a major infrastructure upgrade for a new four-way signalised intersection at Schwarz Crescent, connecting to Smith Street and the Stuart Highway, as part of a joint government tender, with the total cost not revealed.

‘Choosin’ Texas’: Cahill leads US trade delegation to help NT companies make case for Beetaloo gas benefits

Twenty-four Territory business and industry bodies will travel to Texas with Trade and Business Minister Robyn Cahill for an unspecified period of time and at an unknown cost to taxpayers to make their case to US-based companies for benefits from Beetaloo Sub-basin gas-related projects in the NT, the Minister says. The total cost to taxpayers for the Texas trip was not disclosed, however Ms Cahill’s office “estimated” it will cost $27,000 alone for her to attend the voyage.

Opinion: How the troubled $355m Acacia health program failed

The Acacia IT project was intended to transform healthcare, not simply replace ageing systems, but failed to follow its master plan, maintain clinical involvement, test whether continued spending was delivering value, and mistook extensive governance structures for effective oversight, writes project consultant André Snoxall.