After resigning from her position as the boss of Aboriginal Housing Northern Territory this week, Leeanne Caton went out swinging.
The straw that broke the camel's back for Ms Caton was the handling of the future of a Darwin homeless shelter, which is being shifted to the regional town of Batchelor.
Now back in the Arnhem Land bush, Mr Guyula was asked for his reaction to Ms Caton's resignation and the current relationship between Aboriginal leaders and the CLP.
The NT's Acting Chief Minister Gerard Maley has defended the government's relationship with Aboriginal people and communities following the resignations.
Mr Maley took issue with a question about why Aboriginal people were shut out of the conversation around the homeless shelter's move to Batchelor.
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After resigning from her position as the boss of Aboriginal Housing Northern Territory this week, Leeanne Caton went out swinging.
Since the CLP's election, it has overhauled laws on bail, youth criminal responsibility and child protection, and given police a range of new powers.
NT Police say the territory has been recording lower crime rates following the changes.
The straw that broke the camel's back for Ms Caton was the handling of the future of a Darwin homeless shelter, which is being shifted to the regional town of Batchelor.
The departure of the peak body boss is the latest in a string of resignations by Aboriginal leaders and organisations in the Territory over fraying relationships with the NT government.
Now back in the Arnhem Land bush, Mr Guyula was asked for his reaction to Ms Caton's resignation and the current relationship between Aboriginal leaders and the CLP.
Former NT Labor politician and long-term First Nations advocate Scott McConnell said he feared diminishing trust between Aboriginal groups and the government was damaging the jurisdiction's future prospects.
The NT's Acting Chief Minister Gerard Maley has defended the government's relationship with Aboriginal people and communities following the resignations.
"We are listening to Aboriginal people," he said in a press conference on Friday.
"We work with many, many Aboriginal organisations right across the NT."
Mr Maley took issue with a question about why Aboriginal people were shut out of the conversation around the homeless shelter's move to Batchelor.
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