Throughout the year, the NT Independent has been keeping an eye on all of you (in a non-creepy way, not using any sort of tracking or listening devices) and we know when you’ve been naughty and when you’ve been nice. As we close in on Christmas, it’s time to see who makes the NT Independent’s Naughty or Nice list.
Each day (in no particular order) we will be bring you a couple on the list to see who get what.
Today, we have the uncelebrated people trying to make the Territory a better place, versus a man who had a very public fall after looking after his business at the expense of taxpayers.
Whistleblowers are the literal secret answer in the short term at least, to turning the Clown Town culture of corruption, collusion, mismanagement and incompetence around. We need more people to come forward and tell the rest of the NT what is going on inside the bowels of government, the public service, with government grants and the awarding of government contracts.
The NT Independent has written some of our most powerful articles this year on the back of whistleblower information including: the Darwin Turf Club scandal; Labor’s cocaine sex scandal; the Batchelor Institute investigation; the Department of Chief Minister recruiting procurement scandal; the Willing gin distillery fiasco; the failings in the Police College; the death of an Aboriginal man in Darwin prison; and our series on the NT Police executive’s suppression of sex crime information, among...
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