We will be having discusions with the CLP and I will let you all know the outcome.  We still have our petition to table in parliament plus we have hard evidence that the 130 limit has increased fatigue and hence contributed to the road toll.

Election!!!  Bring it on!! Enough is enough. There must be a change.

TERRITORIANS could go to the polls within weeks after a prominent Government minister refused to support the Chief Minister or back down from threats to leave the party.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Alison Anderson said she would re-evaluate her decision to stay with the party, quit politics, become an Independent or join the Country Liberals every three days. "I am prepared to go at any time. It could be today or tomorrow," she said.

When asked whether she still supported Chief Minister Paul Henderson, Ms Anderson said she was "not prepared to make that statement at all and will not make a commitment."

It is possible that neither Labor or the Country Liberals would have the ability to form a government if Ms Anderson carried out her threat. This would force the Administrator Tom Pauling to dissolve parliament and call an early election.

Ms Anderson said she would reconsider her position every three days - after her promised briefings on the progress of the audit into the Commonwealth's $672 million housing program. This audit will be completed within a month.

Ms Anderson said she was aware that her decision could cost Labor government.

"That's one of the things I need to think about," she said. "It is not about whether I give the CLP power or whether the ALP has power, I just want people to do the right thing.

"I couldn't give a shit about party lines. I think that for far too long we have been entrenched in party politics. The party doesn't vote for us. The party pre-selects us."

Ms Anderson also revealed she would not contest the next election.

"I never came into this job for nothing else - just my two terms and out," she said.

"That is why it is important to do a good job."

Chief Minister Paul Henderson walked out of the Cabinet meeting yesterday and said Ms Anderson was "absolutely" still a member of his government.

"Alison is very committed to continue to work with me," he said.

"Alison is very keen to work with me and our government."

This was Ms Anderson's first meeting with her Cabinet colleagues since last week's threat to walk out of the party.

Cabinet received a briefing on the costs of the strategic indigenous housing and infrastructure program.

Ms Anderson said she had now received three completely different briefings on this project.

The original briefing said up to 70 per cent of the funding would be spent on administration costs.

This number was later revised to 11.4 per cent and Mr Henderson yesterday promised to reduce it further to less than 10 per cent.

Mr Henderson said the original briefing was wrong because it was conducted by an engineer who mistakenly included the cost of labour, materials and transport as administration costs.

Mr Henderson also denied Ms Anderson ever personally threatened to leave the party. "I'm not going to go chapter and verse about what Alison has said, but she certainly never said that to me."

Ms Anderson said she had "plenty of opportunities" if she left the Labor party.

"I could completely leave and cause a by-election in the seat of Macdonnell. I could go to the cross-benches or I could go to the CLP," she said.

Some members of the CLP have argued Ms Anderson was a political tease and had previously indicated her dissatisfaction with the government in private - but refused to repeat these statements in public.

Ms Anderson confirmed she had some discussions with Opposition politicians, but "nothing formal".

"I have smoke chats with certain members of the CLP," she said.

Ms Anderson said that she was concerned that the SIHIP program was being held up due to "over-consultation".

"The fact is that (former Indigenous Affairs Minister) Mal Brough had the guts to trigger an intervention. I think the man had guts. I think what Federal Labor has now done is the opposite," she said.

"It is killing off the intervention without killing off the inter- vention. We are killing people by consultation."