Media Releases

Shadow Minister for Territory Families and Opposition Whip, Joshua Burgoyne, says the May parliamentary sittings will be a big fortnight of CLP-led legislation – which have been introduced to protect and support Territory workers, and ensure regular reporting from the Chief Health Officer (CHO) to Territorians. “Our Sentencing Amendment Bill 2022 ensures every offender who assaults a Territory worker – …

Shadow Minister for Public Employment, Bill Yan, says Territory frontline workers are worth more than a four year pay freeze and it’s time the Gunner Labor Government stop punishing the public service for his budget blowouts. “Michael Gunner wants our frontline workers to keep doing the same job, for the same wage for four years, despite the fact Darwin has …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says real solutions like the CLP’s plan to cut red tape through an Approvals Fast-Track Taskforce, establishing a Territory Coordinator to fast-track private investment, and abolishing Labor’s complicated hybrid mining tax which would be replaced with an ad valorem model needs to be urgently implemented to turn the NT’s economy around. “The latest State …

Shadow Minister for Health, Bill Yan, says while most states move forward and look to sensibly relax COVID restrictions, the Gunner Government is amping up its COVID controls for its own political gain. “People who are well and test negative should go to work. “There must be an immediate full scale review by the CHO of all remaining restrictions including …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the time for excuses is over. Over the past five years, the Gunner Labor Government has spent hundreds-of-millions of dollars on crime, but crime is higher than ever. What they are doing is not working. “Labor says its programs are working—they are not. None of the tremendously expensive programs Labor has introduced, from …

Shadow Attorney General, Steve Edgington, says the Gunner Government have been caught out breaching its own laws using taxpayer dollars to promote the Labor Party within an official Government document. During the February sittings, the Attorney General tabled a Ministerial Report that was riddled with references to the Labor Party. This is a clear breach of the Public Information Act. “After …

Shadow Minister for Health and Town Camps, Bill Yan, says the Gunner Labor Governmenthas no plans to prevent the ‘rivers of grog’ flowing into communities with the FederalGovernment’s Stronger Futures alcohol management intervention finishing in July. “The Labor Government has had nearly five years since the Riley Review was concluded toformulate alcohol management plans with communities and town camps. Now, …

Shadow Minister for Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Marie-Clare Boothby, says the CLP Opposition fully supports the NT racing industry’s rejection of the Gunner Government’s demands to pay back the $12 million for the grandstand which was approved through an improper Cabinet process. “The only people who could approve the $12 million grant was the Chief Minister and his Labor colleagues. …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the Gunner Government needs to stop the chaotic, contradictory COVID rules as a distraction from its crime, health and integrity crisis.  “This one-trick-pony government is desperate to keep talking about COVID to distract from every other crisis it has created” “The Vaccine Pass saga is no coincidence. It was a deliberate distraction by …

Shadow Minister for Health, Bill Yan, says mounting pressure from the CLP, industry, local businesses and the wider public has forced the Gunner Labor Government to backtrack on its ludicrous Vaccine Pass restrictions and scrap it altogether. “The Gunner Government’s desperate attempts to cling to COVID controls, while Labor’s relevance amid the crime, economic, health and integrity crisis deteriorates – …