Take heed please government 

I am becoming very worried about aspects of CLP governance. Along with that is bewilderment as to why some actions are being taken and needs ignored. The Waterfront issue on salaries and employment has been dismissed. A key appointment to an essential position has been confirmed at the behest of the Attorney General who has appointed a person who did not even apply for the position. And now the revelation about animal cruelty is confirmed in the background of the person who was declared the most powerful person in the NT News 2024 lost of the most prominent Persons influencing the NT.

The government must avoid these glitches and shortcomings. Those on the ministry would do well to recall what happened to the Giles Government and more recently the Fyles/Lawler government.

Promises must be met and transparency – which is becoming lost – reinstated. If not, the Finnochario government may well be a one-term wonder.

ANALYSIS: Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro says she is “buoyed” by a six per cent swing towards the CLP at the federal election, but a deeper look at what the voters in Darwin and Palmerston said with their ballots should cause the Country Liberal Party and its elected members grave concerns for their political futures.

While some would argue a federal election result should not be used to criticise the Territory Chief Minister, the party itself made it a referendum on Lia in Darwin and Palmerston and the results were damning.

Saturday’s federal election was held less than nine months after the CLP formed government through surprising gains in the Darwin northern suburbs, a result that it appears would not be replicated today if a Territory election were called.

We don’t need hordes of people

We already have far too many people living in Darwin. We need more people to come and crowd in, about as much as the sea needs water. Our suburbs are becoming run down and gritty. Increasing numbers of houses are very poorly maintained and yards are overgrown and unkempt.

Trees are planted in public spaces and along roadways and are never maintained. Council lets verges and footpaths go to rack and ruin. The council never acknowledges the efforts of those who maintain verges at the resident! ‘s expense.

And people in high places want to continue bringing in masses of people.

DO THOSE DECISION-MAKERS AND CONSULTANTS KNOW WHAT LIVING IN DARWIN AND PALMERSTON  IS LIKE?

I mean in places other than housing enclaves and the newer suburbs – which in the case of Lyons and Muirhead are already starting to look drab in places. The appearances of Johbsin and Zuccoli are hardly awe-inspiring either!

Give it a break! We need care and maintenance, appreciation and pride in what we already have, rather than wanting evermore people jam-packing into this place.