Media Releases

The Gunner Government have once again spectacularly bungled our tourism rebound, pulling the rug out from under local small and family businesses by stopping them from serving small amounts of takeaway alcohol with a meal. “The Gunner Government only know how to do one thing well, and that’s destroy small business and increase red tape.” “During COVID, the Northern Territory …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, has echoed comments of the Northern Territory Police Association that Labor has failed Territorians. “The Gunner Labor Government should be ashamed of its failure to address the crime crisis in our community.” In an interview with Katie Woolf on Mix 104.9 this morning, President of the Northern Territory Police Association (NTPA), Paul McCue said; …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the Gunner Labor Government has been caught out fudging figures, after the Auditor-General compared projected job creation from major projects in the Territory against actual jobs created. The Auditor-General probed a list of ten significant projects and found the number of jobs actually created was either a fraction of what was projected, couldn’t …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says it’s shameful the Gunner Labor Government has recklessly dismissed a key recommendation from two of its own, taxpayer-funded, reports to kick start private sector investment and revive our economy. “The Territory Economic Reconstruction Commission (TERC) and the Langoulant Plan for Budget Repair identified the need to overhaul the current major projects system and …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says it’s absolutely appalling the Gunner Government is hiding behind the pathetic excuse it hasn’t had enough time to look over the Opposition’s crucial bail reform. “Because of Labor’s sensational failure to meet its most basic function: keeping Territorians safe, this afternoon the Opposition is introducing the Bail Amendment Bill 2021, on urgency. “Last …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the Chief Minister and his disgraced Labor team should hang their heads in shame after voting down the urgency of the Opposition’s Bail Amendment Bill. “Labor had the chance to show it was listening to the community, listening to police, listening to key industry bodies and taking the first step to fix the …

Shadow Minister for National Resilience, Gerard Maley, says it’s completely unacceptable the Gunner Labor Government simply forgot to put in an essential order for close to 1,500 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. “This is a major oversight and raises serious questions about the Territory’s ability to manage the rollout of vaccines across the NT, let alone take over management …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the Chief Minister and his disgraced Labor team should hang their heads in shame after voting down the urgency of the Opposition’s Bail Amendment Bill. “Labor had the chance to show it was listening to the community, listening to police, listening to key industry bodies and taking the first step to fix the …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the overwhelming and sustained pressure on the Chief Minister from the public, police and Opposition has forced the Gunner Government to face its gross failures, weak laws and incompetence on bail and youth crime – but today’s announcement is a farce. “Today’s announcement by the Gunner Government is humiliating political spin and lacks …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says Labor’s monumental failures to address the Territory’s escalating crime wave over the last four and a half years in government means the CLP is again taking the lead by introducing crucial bail reform. “Territorians have had a gutful and are breaking point. They cannot take it any longer. “Repeat offenders who make up …