The suspension of the Adam Giles Show on Sky News after the G'day mate welcome interview of far right nationalist and Hitler sympathiser Blair Cottrell has again raised questions about how the former Northern Territory CLP Chief Minister , thrashed at the last election , came to be given a television show . After he lost his seat in the landslide, Gina Rinehart , with a wide range of interests , including shares in Fairfax and television , gave him a job riding the range in her expanding cattle empire .
Then he suddenly gets a live television show . Why ? Of course , Sky, taken over by Murdoch , and becoming increasingly like Fox News , USA , is obsessed with politicians, becoming almost a retirement home for ex pollies . However, some Territorians believe Giles got a Sky News slot because of an alliance of some kind between Rinehart and Murdoch . An interesting theory .
After the outcry about Cottrell appearing on the Giles Show , and its closure , Sky news director Greg Byrnes issued the following statement . Former ALP minister Craig Emerson withdrew from SKY as a commentator due to Cottrell's utterances .
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Former Darwin television journalist Casie Scott has been appointed communications and business development manager by business advisory firm PVW Partners, Townsville . Soon after moving to Townsville from Darwin she stood as the LNP candidate in the state seat of Townsville and polled well . Her appointment statement said that since 2012 she had been a ministerial adviser to Queensland and NT government ministers.
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Rather than wait for the Bank Royal Commission to make its report on the army of rogues and crooked institutions , an irregular , drawn out Territory bank case is going to be launched in cyberspace. Darwin filming for the expose has involved interviews with key players and an interstate lawyer . Advice has also been sought from an expert in crime and misconduct investigations . Watch this space .
