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The Northern Territory Labor politician has conceded he has an issue with speeding, as his dicey driving history comes to light. The revelations have put more pressure on the embattled NT Opposition as it deals with internal turmoil and media scrutiny.

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00:02A speeding shadow minister now trying to put his foot on the brake.
00:07Arafura MLA Manuel Brown busted with another traffic infringement
00:12days after the NT Independent revealed he'd had his licence suspended
00:17after multiple fines late last year.
00:20Today, the MLA conceding,
00:23I can confirm I have received a further speeding infringement.
00:27There is no excuse for speeding.
00:29I recognise this is a pattern of behaviour that I need to address properly
00:34and I will be undertaking remedial driver training to ensure it does not happen again.
00:40It's unclear if the infringement was disclosed to his boss, Selina Yubo,
00:45who says she's sorry for not making last year's licence suspension public sooner.
00:51He knows he needs to do better.
00:52That's not the standard I expect from him or my team or myself, of course.
00:56So anything like that does deserve to be in the public arena and I do apologise for that.
01:02The infringement's come 17 years after Mr Brown received a conviction for driving without due care,
01:09following a crash which led to the death of a woman in Catherine in 2009.
01:14The driving debacle ends a horror week for NT Labor,
01:18which is also dealing with accusations of workplace misconduct within the opposition leader's office.
01:25Ms Yubo says she still has the backing of her party to continue to lead it.
01:30I've received some very supportive messages this week,
01:33which has been very greatly appreciated from different members of the Labor Party.
01:42Mr Brown was not available for an interview.
01:45For now, the Bush MLA will keep his portfolios,
01:49including as the Shadow Minister for Education and Training.
01:52Mr Brown is a really great academic training.
01:54Mr Brown has been very quite a bit of a representative of the world.
01:55Mr Brown has been very completely
01:55Mr Brown has been very deeplyチャンネル登録 of all the people who want everybody to also
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