Adam Giles

Stan Grant used his Press Club address to raise the dearth of indigenous public servants, while states and territories lift their targets. But there’s one federal agency that can’t get enough Aboriginal staff to accept redundancies.

NT taxpayers covered the cost of advertising that was, in two cases, politicised and misleading. The Chief Minister’s Department and office were both pinged by the auditor-general. She rejects “urgency” as an excuse.

The NT will double the number of Aboriginal public servants by 2020. Indigenous worker requirements on government contracts are already seeing an increase on construction sites.

Described as Australia’s first “Camp David” summit, the leaders of Australia’s three tiers of government unanimously backed a statehood bid for the Northern Territory and keep GST changes on the table as they prepare to knuckle down on federation reform at the next COAG meeting.