Northern territory chief minister


NT, the Montara oil spill and the regulatory ‘dog that didn’t bark’

Yesterday Federal Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson tabled the Report of inquiry into the oil spill at the Montara Wellhead Platform in the Timor Sea in August 2009 — and gave the NT government the kind of kick in the teeth you’d normally reserve for your political enemies.

MFS and City Pacific propose shot-gun wedding

It is getting expensive, but I’m chasing this market lower, spending $35,000 stacking another 58 stocks into the portfolio so far this year, including eight more this morning.

Bob Gosford: Hello, Chief Minister? There’s been a coup!

Prime Minister John Howard tried to call Northern Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin all morning yesterday to tell her of his plans. For whatever reason, Martin wouldn’t take his calls. She should have. It has cost her, as we say in the Territory, ‘big as mobs’, writes Bob Gosford.