David Connolly has previously attacked Aboriginal land rights and insulted Anthony Albanese. Now he’s moving into Government House
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In his own words, the man chosen to become the next administrator of Australia’s Northern Territory is not the sort to worry about causing offence.
“I’ve been called ‘bigoted’, ‘racist’, ‘homophobic’, ‘transphobic’, ‘elitist’, ‘prejudiced’, ‘[a] destroyer of the environment’, ‘[a] torturer of animals’, ‘discriminatory’, ‘biased’, ‘intolerant’, ‘chauvinistic’, ‘small-minded’, ‘old’, ‘grumpy’ and ‘useless’,” David Connolly told the Northern Territory Cattleman’s Association conference in 2023.