{"id":24401,"date":"2023-12-05T20:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=24401"},"modified":"2023-12-05T20:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T20:53:48","slug":"chief-minister-fyles-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-tamboran-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/chief-minister-fyles-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-tamboran-lobbyists\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIEF MINISTER FYLES ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR TAMBORAN LOBBYISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reports that the Fyles Government political strategy is being advised and led by the same consultancy that is directly responsible for lobbying by fracking giant Tamboran Resources are alarming and outrageous.

The third major scandal within a month that shows the Chief Minister answers to the gas industry not her constituents. The Greens are calling on the Prime Minister to raise this clear conflict of interest with Chief Minister Fyles at tomorrow\u2019s national cabinet meeting.

Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on democracy Senator Larissa Waters<\/strong> said:

\u201cIt is outrageous for Mr Richardson to be in charge of political strategy for the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, while also lobbying for Tamboran Resources to unleash a carbon-bomb by fracking the Beetaloo Basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a back door into parliament and influencing political decisions, it\u2019s rolling out the red carpet for Tamboran to have all the information they need to get their way on Beetaloo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s bad enough when we see ex-parliamentarians and senior staffers heading straight into a lobbying role after they leave office – but in the NT, the lobbyists appear to be on the Parliamentary payroll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is absolutely unacceptable and yet another case of poor decision-making from Chief Minister Fyles. The Northern Territory, democracy and the environment deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NT Greens Convenor, Jonathan Parry<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe capture of the NT Labor government by big gas companies is disturbing and unethical. It is offensive to Territorians to have their elected members so blatantly disregard basic integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrankly, I am disgusted that the Chief Minister would think it appropriate to spend taxpayers money getting political advice from the same firm lobbying for an expansion of fracking in the NT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is becoming impossible to see where the Fyles Labor Government ends and the gas industry begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need a transparent lobbyist register for the NT that identifies those seeking to influence the government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports that the Fyles Government political strategy is being advised and led by the same consultancy that is directly responsible for lobbying by fracking giant Tamboran Resources are alarming and outrageous. The third major scandal within a month that shows the Chief Minister answers to the gas industry not her constituents. The Greens are calling … Continue reading “CHIEF MINISTER FYLES ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR TAMBORAN LOBBYISTS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24402,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24401\/revisions\/24402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}