00:01A first-term government member freelancing from the backbench again.
00:07Last week labelling the public service giant, bloated and ineffective, this week providing
00:14an insight into its productivity.
00:17The Treasurer and Chief Minister repeatedly ruling out public service cuts, despite 40
00:23per cent of the government's total expenses being employee wages.
00:28Tanzil Rahman, relieved his comments haven't seen him sidelined.
00:33Tonight legislation reforming the territory's gambling and racing industries will return
00:38for debate.
00:39The bill has not been changed despite the Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee making 11 recommendations,
00:46including stronger conflict of interest rules at the online gambling regulator.
00:51We understand that that is something that they are looking forward to seeing, but it's
00:56not part of the legislation as such.
00:57The legislation really establishes Racing NT, which forms part of the review that I did
01:03into the sustainable and growing industry that we're looking for in the Northern Territory.
01:07It's basically a bill that rearranges the furniture.
01:10It's not a bill that actually addresses the real issues around gambling here in the Northern
01:14Territory, around the issues that people come to us with concerns about.
01:18A bill changing the NT's child protection laws is set to be introduced tomorrow.
01:23All right.
01:25You
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