The NT Government is in the process of appointing an interim board for the troubled Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA), according to a source asking not to be named.
The source says the members will be Scott Lovett, the Regional Executive Director for Economic Development (working out of the Chief Minister’s office), as well as businessman Neil Ross (Ross Engineering), prominent Aborigines Paul AhChee (the director of the Desert Park) and Bob Liddle (a consultant to the mining industry, pictured left), and retired NT public servant Ken Johnson, a former regional director of the Parks and Wildlife Commission and CEO of DKA from 2002 to 2006 (pictured at right).
It is expected an official announcement will be made in two weeks’ time.
DKA has recently been the subject of a scathing report.