Leader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Shadow Treasurer – Bill Yan MLA The Labor Government today has shown that it is out of touch, out of ideas and just not listening to Territorians. The battlelines for the August election have been drawn, showing that Eva Lawler has all the wrong priorities, and no actual plan for the Territory. Opposition …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Shadow Minister for Territory Families – Joshua Burgoyne MLA Eva Lawler and her disgraced Police Minister Brent Potter cannot be trusted to keep Territorians safe despite today’s desperate pledge. Territorians will judge Labor on their actions not their words, – robberies in Darwin are up 262% in Labor’s 8 years is just one …
Continue readingWe’ve heard it all before. Territorians could be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà vu over the past few weeks as the Labor government rolled out its Budget announcements. We’ve heard it all before. Promises of millions and millions of dollars that are never delivered. We had another announcement on the Darwin Ship Lift, the 40th media release on …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Shadow Minister for Business, Jobs and Training – Marie-Clare Boothby MLA Small businesses in the Territory will save tens of thousands of dollars a year on tax under a CLP government. The CLP will: As part of its Plan of Action to get the economy moving forwards, the CLP will raise the payroll …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro After 8 years of delays, Eva Lawler cannot be trusted to deliver Darwin’s Ship Lift. Labor is all talk and no action – this is the 40th Labor press release on the ship lift and not even one sod has been turned. This is just more incompetence from a Labor Government who cannot …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Shadow Minister for Justice – Steve Edgington Under a CLP Government, there will be real consequences for crime, with a suite of new initiatives unveiled as part of its Plan for a Safe Territory, which will reform corrections in the Northern Territory. Key to the plan is a reduction in overcrowding in the …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Shadow Minister for Youth – Joshua Burgoyne The past week has seen Labor tangle themselves up in their own lies with Eva Lawler trying to make it sound like it had always been Labor’s intention to only bulldoze the old Don Dale facility, and the deceit continued with Ngaree Ah Kit, despite a …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Eva Lawler as Treasurer and Chief Minister has led a 22% increase in the cost of living since 2016. The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for the March quarter has seen CPI reach 3.3%. Labor has failed to tackle crime or grow our economy and it is Territorians who are paying the …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Shadow Minister for Renewables and Energy – Joshua Burgoyne Labor has had 8 years to deliver security of gas supply so that Territorians can keep the lights on, and they have failed. Leader of the Opposition, Lia Finocchiaro said, “Territorians know Labor cancelled its annual conference to avoid a public fight on gas …
Continue readingLeader of the Opposition – Lia Finocchiaro Eva Lawler and Labor cannot be trusted to deliver new prisons and the proof is in their failure to open a new Don Dale despite promising it in 2016. Now they expect Territorians to believe that they will deliver on women’s prisons in Alice Springs and Darwin. Eva Lawler, who was long term …
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