Media Releases

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the Gunner Government has completely lost its grip on the NT’s crime crisis. The latest Territory crime statistics (year on year to January 2021) show violent crime – assaults, domestic violence and alcohol-related assaults – has dramatically increased right across the Territory. “These horrific increases in violent crimes highlight the tragedy that is …

Shadow Minister for Tourism, Marie-Clare Boothby, says the Gunner Labor Government’s multi-million dollar tourism campaign to attract people to the Territory has been eclipsed by the viewership of Monday night’s damning report into the Alice Springs crime wave aired on Nine’s A Current Affair. “More than 1.5 million people have now viewed the A Current Affair report which aired on …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the Gunner Labor Government should be ashamed of its negligent failure to address the Territory’s crime crisis, which was showcased last night in a damning report by Nine’s A Current Affair, focusing on Alice Springs youth crime and weak bail laws. “The first thing Michael Gunner needs to do is apologise to every …

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 CLP is leading the way by introducing the Territory Coordinator Bill 2020, to offset Labor’s economic incompetence. The Territory Coordinator is an independent facilitator between business and government which can slash red tape and fast-track approvals to get projects off the ground. “We haven’t seen a single major project completed in the …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says Labor’s ongoing acceptance of the Member for Blain’s conduct sends a disturbing message that the disgraced MLA’s behaviour is tolerated and even condoned by the party. “Labor’s failure to dump the Member for Blain for his scandalous and unparliamentary behaviour is not only weak, but again proves Michael Gunner has lost all control. …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says there are serious concerns over whether the Gunner Labor Government can handle the additional management of international arrivals for mandatory quarantine at Howard Springs. “This afternoon the Chief Minister made the snap announcement, without the support of his Health Minister or the Territory’s Chief Health Officer, that the NT Government will take over …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says it is unacceptable Territorians weren’t alerted to a critical capacity issue at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) last week. A ‘code yellow’ is an Australian Standard defined as a “serious internal emergency”, which may “adversely impact service delivery and/or the safety of staff, patients and visitors”. “We’ve got a situation where RDH had a …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the Gunner Labor Government is so allergic to scrutiny that it won’t even tell Territorians who its Assistant Ministers are. “After the election, Michael Gunner announced that the Territory needed 45 separate Ministries, to be divided amongst his Cabinet Ministers. It now that was not enough, with the introduction of a new Minister: …

Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro, says the criticism levelled at the Essential Service’s Minister over her response to the catastrophic Alice Springs ‘System Black’ outage, which left 12,000 customers without power for up to 10 hours, is damning. “The Utilities Commission doesn’t mince words in this progress report, describing the current situation as ‘suboptimal’. “All 33 recommendations stemming from …