The Opposition in the Northern Territory usually consists of the largest party not in Government. The Opposition's purpose is to hold the Government to account and constitute a "Government-in-waiting" should the existing Government fall. To that end, a Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Ministers for the various government departments question the Chief Minister and Ministers on Government policy and administration and formulate the policy the Opposition would pursue in Government.
At times, the Opposition consisted of both the
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia and one of two Major party, major parties in Po ...
(ALP) and
Coalition
A coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political, military, or economic spaces.
Formation
According to ''A G ...
counterpart, the
Country Liberal Party
The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP), commonly known as the Country Liberals, is a centre-right and conservative political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In territory politics, it operates in a two-party system wi ...
(CLP).
The current Leader of the Opposition is Territory
Labor Leader
Selena Uibo.
Current Shadow Ministry (since 2024)
14th Assembly Shadow Ministry (2020–2024)
Country Liberal Party
Finocchiaro Shadow Ministry (2020–2024)
13th Assembly Shadow Ministry (2016–2020)
The fallout of the
2016 Northern Territory general election
The 2016 Northern Territory general election was held on Saturday 27 August 2016 to elect all 25 members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament.
Legislation was pass ...
resulted in the sitting CLP government reduced to two seats after a landslide result to the ALP who managed to win 18 seats. Independents won the second-largest share of seats with five members being elected. As a result, it was suggested that the independents would obtain opposition status because of their larger amount of seats in the assembly and as such attempts were made in 2019 and 2020. However, this was later rejected by the speaker
Kezia Purick and the CLP went into the sitting of Parliament as the official opposition.
Country Liberal Party
Finocchiaro Shadow Ministry (2020)
Higgins Shadow Ministry (2016–2020)
Territory Alliance
Mills Shadow Ministry (2020)
References
External links
Northern Territory Electoral CommissionABC Elections: 2016 Northern Territory Election
{{Politics of Australia
Elections in the Northern Territory
2010s in the Northern Territory