An NT News political reporter who is suing the paper for unfair dismissal claims the chief minister’s department would secretly copy his editor in on all his queries to the government.

Christopher Walsh says he was sacked after complaining about the deal. News Corp denies his claims.

According to court documents, Walsh claims the editor and the general manager of the NT News came to an arrangement with the head of the chief minister’s department, Jodie Ryan, under which Ryan would blind-copy them into all media queries from Walsh to the Northern Territory government and public service.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed a police operation at the Manus Island detention centre on Papua New Guinea. PNG authorities - reportedly "guided" by an Australian Federal Police officer - at the Delta compound have been searching rooms and shouting at the men to leave.

Chief Minister Adam Giles says he is not surprised that the ALPBC conspiracy against his government has now caused a 30km oil spill, timed to derail next week's election.

In breaking news, a rich old white man said something racist.

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With his $84 million Gulfstream jet parked at Sydney Airport on Monday, the media mogul again had staff on edge.

Imagine the look, then, on the 84-year-old's face when he stepped off the plane to learn that Channel Nine had usurped News' Fox Sports in hatching a $925 million deal for rugby league from 2018.

Two decades after Murdoch's Super League tried to hijack the entire code, all for the sake of television "product", it could end up with nothing at all.