Christopher Walsh

Chief Minister Michael Gunner resigned while he and his office are currently under investigation by the NT’s anti-corruption body, the ICAC and an independent MLA have confirmed.

The removal of Labor candidate Brett Potter’s LinkedIn profile from public view just hours before he was officially selected by the Chief Minister to run in Fannie Bay was most likely done to hide his past, says a political expert.

EXCLUSIVE: Labor’s Fannie Bay candidate Brent Potter previously worked for the CEO of an aerospace company he was involved in securing $10 million of taxpayer money for, his deactivated LinkedIn page shows, and charged taxpayers to travel internationally to secure contracts for the company, the NT Independent can reveal.

Former chief minister Michael Gunner will lead billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s renewable energy company’s northern office, in spite of what the Environment Centre NT called Mr Gunner’s “legacy of climate-wrecking projects” across the Northern Territory during his tenure as leader.

The NT Government secretly hired the company that certified and engineered the troubled fire hydrant system at TIO Stadium to “investigate” their own project’s alleged failings amid public safety concerns, according to government documents sent to media, government officials and law enforcement agen…

Territory Labor has cancelled its annual conference 10 months out from the next election, with several sources saying the party’s elected members are too afraid to face the rank-and-file over a number of issues, including the Fyles Government’s poor environmental track record.

Independent MLA Kezia Purick’s free trip to South Korea at a five-star hotel funded by Big Tobacco has been rebuked by the Federal Health Minister, who recently sent a letter to federal politicians reminding them of their obligations under an international treaty not to cosy up with the tobacco and vaping industry, while calls also mount for her to abstain from voting in NT Parliament due to the conflict of interest.

Chief Minister Eva Lawler has revealed her “vitally important” trip to Japan next week will cost taxpayers just over $19,000 for her and two staffers, while stating the trip is necessary to meet with Inpex because the NT Government’s relationship with the Japanese gas giant is “probably just as big as our relationship with the Federal Government”.

Former chief minister Michael Gunner, who controversially took a job with Fortescue Future Industries after leaving government in 2022, has announced he is no longer with the company, just five months after being named director of business development for Australia and New Zealand.

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.