10 August 2022 | Media Releases

LABOR’S $70M UNPAID RENT WRITE-OFF

The cash-strapped Flyes Labor Government needs to explain to Territorians why $70m of remote rental debts were wiped. Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelands Bill Yan said during the 2022 Estimates hearings, the CLP Opposition uncovered that there was more than $60m in unpaid rent from remote housing. “We now see in media reports that $70m of remote rent has …

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10 August 2022 | Media Releases

FANNIE BAY BY-ELECTION AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE INTEGRITY

The Fannie Bay by-election is an opportunity to send Labor a message that it has failed on integrity, says CLP Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro. In an extraordinary move, Natasha Fyles tried on radio yesterday to talk herself out of a web of lies and deceit in regards to allegedly forged documents her cabinet are refusing to hand over to the …

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9 August 2022 | Media Releases

CLP CALLS ON FYLES GOVERNMENT TO BACK A FUEL INQUIRY

Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro has called on Chief Minister Natasha Fyles to show leadership and announce a formal Inquiry into fuel prices in the Territory. Today in Adelaide, unleaded petrol was available for 153.9, in Sydney for 157.7 and Brisbane for 159.5—compared to Darwin where the average price is 195.7. Mrs Finocchiaro said Territorians were paying almost 40 cents more …

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8 August 2022 | Media Releases

LACK OF ACTION ON CRIME SEES STRING OF SERIOUS ASSAULTS

Multiple reports of more concerning crime in Darwin’s northern suburbs leave a dark cloud over the Fyles Labor Government who continue to sit by and do nothing as the Territory drowns in crime. The report of two serious sexual assaults at Casuarina Square at the weekend plus the murder at Water Gardens, a serious assault in Darwin, and attempted robbery …

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5 August 2022 | Media Releases

POLICE STATISTICS SOBERING

CLP questioning during Estimates has revealed damning data that shows Territory police are being forced to waste hours being a taxi service rather than fighting crime. Answers from estimates reveal that in the year to March: 2,174 persons were taken to watch houses; 3,312 persons were conveyed to sobering up shelters; 501 persons were conveyed to hospitals and/or clinics; and …

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2 August 2022 | Media Releases

CABINET DOCUMENTS NEED TO BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY TO ICAC

The Opposition is calling on Chief Minister Natasha Fyles show that her government will be different to that of Michael Gunner and immediately release Cabinet documents to clear the air over last week’s damning ICAC report. Last week the ICAC released a report which showed that the former Chief Minister Michael Gunner denied an ICAC request to release Cabinet documents …

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29 July 2022 | Media Releases

LABOR A NO SHOW AT ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR FORUM

Shadow Minister for Small Business, Marie-Clare Boothby, says that Labor’s absence from yesterday’s public forum on crime shows that the Government aren’t listening and just don’t care. “Yesterday at Tamarind Park in Darwin, private citizens arranged a public forum to address the skyrocketing cases of crime and antisocial behaviour. “Small business owners, concerned citizens, the police, the media, Darwin City …

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29 July 2022 | Media Releases

LABOR MUST BE OPEN AND TRANSPARENT WITH ICAC

Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Gerard Maley, says that Natasha Fyles must immediately release cabinet submission information to clear the dark cloud hanging over the Labor Government as a result damning information in the latest ICAC Report. “The allegations made in the ICAC Report are extremely serious, namely that the Labor Cabinet refused to give the ICAC information concerning a …

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28 July 2022 | Media Releases

2km RULE MUST RETURN TO HELP TACKLE ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

Shadow Minister for Alcohol Policy, Gerald Maley, says that laws making it an offence to consume liquor in public within 2 km of a licensed premises must be reinstated to curb the skyrocketing rates of alcohol fuelled antisocial behaviour. (the 2km Rule) “The link between alcohol and antisocial behaviour in the Territory is plain for all to see and Labor’s …

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27 July 2022 | Media Releases

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE POLICY

Shadow Minister for Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence, Steve Edgington says that the CLP will be introducing a policy to tackle the disgraceful rates of domestic violence across the Territory. “The Fyles Government has failed Territorians and failed to keep them safe. In Alice Springs last week police reported 54 cases of domestic violence over a 48 hour …

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