Charles Darwin University’s attempts to establish a medical school is an unnecessary duplication, and serves to further distract management from their core business of attempting to finally establish a northern Australian university committed to Territorians and their issues and concerns, writes Dr Don Fuller.
The Darwin Council treats green space as a liability but if it increased community-managed green space, it would reduce landscape maintenance costs, and give a lot of people a better lifestyle, writes Jingili community gardens committee president Ian Hollingsworth.
The Lawler Government is content to ignore or dismiss approaches by the Northern Territory Firearms Council to discuss burdensome changes to the NT Firearms Act, council president Andy Armstrong writes.
It’s been another week to wallow in the misdeeds, malfeasance and asinine behaviour of our elected leaders and explore that sweet corruption-incompetence nexus that makes us all feel at home in the Great Territory Lifestyle. Find out the most clownish deeds committed in the NT this week.
EDITORIAL: In pursuing her defence of Brent Potter and his posts, our Chief Minister has demonstrated that nothing is off limits, no boundaries respected, and no consideration given to her role as the person ultimately responsible for upholding her government’s values and our community standards.
Clown Town: This week in Clown Town, the Lawler Government has drawn up a convenient list of the good Nazis and the bad Nazis for all, that sends us to wallow for another week in the misdeeds, malfeasance and asinine behaviour of our elected leaders and explore that sweet corruption-incompetence nexus that makes us all feel at home in the Great Territory Lifestyle.
The Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration found ministers should resign or be dismissed if they contravene standards of morality, however the Chief Minister’s failure to sack Brent Potter shows the government does not prize ethical responsibility and sets the Territory on a course to fail under such leadership, writes Dr Don Fuller.
ANALYSIS: It isn’t just that Potter exudes toxic frat-boy energy with strong Manchurian candidate vibes that’s unnerving, it’s his documented conduct since starting on the fifth floor that causes the most concern. The racist and derogatory posts are the latest hypocrisy, that fill in a few missing years, and present the man in full.
Clown Town: Let’s wallow for another week in the misdeeds, malfeasance and asinine behaviour of our elected leaders and explore that sweet corruption-incompetence nexus that makes us all feel at home in the Great Territory Lifestyle.
Let’s wallow for another week in the misdeeds, malfeasance and asinine behaviour of our elected leaders and explore that sweet corruption-incompetence nexus that makes us all feel at home in the Great Territory Lifestyle.
‘Clown Town’ is a new column where the NT Independent quietly reflects on the misdeeds, malfeasance and asinine behaviour of our elected leaders and explores that sweet corruption-incompetence nexus that makes us all feel like home.
ANALYSIS: What’s clear after this week is that Chansey Paech discussed the lifting of the remote grog bans and regardless of whether he told his colleagues about his shares or not, he failed to properly manage his conflict of interest by engaging in the Cabinet discussions. That is a serious ethical breach that needs to be investigated by a proper body while he stands down.
