‘Not just another white cocky’. An interview with Michael Gunner — bipartisanship and Closing the Gap

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April 14, 2021

Michael Gunner
An out-of-the-box thinker and a left-field candidate, NT chief minister Michael Gunner. (AAP Image/Glenn Campbell)

Michael Gunner, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, has a fascinating story to tell about growing up in central Australia, reaching across the aisle to make the NT a renewable energy exporting superpower, and the pros and cons of bipartisanship in Closing the Gap for Indigenous Australians.

On his background and getting into politics

I am a local Territory boy. I was born down in Alice Springs. Dad was born in Tennant Creek in the early 1930s. So I’ve been around the Territory for a while.

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