Lee accuses NT govt, magistrate of threats

A Northern Territory MLA has accused the attorney-general and a Darwin magistrate of intimidating, threatening and attempting to bribe her to stop her leaving the Country Liberals Party-led government.

Larisa Lee was one of three Aboriginal backbenchers who resigned from the government last month before joining the Palmer United Party, accusing the government of breaking its election promises to indigenous communities.

During a censure motion of the government on Thursday, Ms Lee told the parliament she had been offered her own chequebook by magistrate Peter Maley to remain a member of the CLP in February when she was considering becoming an independent.

Mr Maley last week resigned from the party after being outed as a director of a CLP-linked research organisation called Foundation 51, which the Labor opposition has called a slush fund.

In one of a series of letters to the Speaker dated February 23, which Ms Lee read onto the record after the government repeatedly refused to allow her to table the documents, she said Mr Maley told her to stay away from fellow PUP member Alison Anderson.

"He said I would have my own chequebook," Ms Lee alleges Mr Maley told her.

Ms Lee said she then received a call from Attorney-General John Elferink, who asked if she wanted a ministry, something he has strongly denied.

"He said if I left I would have no protection from the CLP and the government," she said.

Ms Lee said the calls made her feel threatened and intimidated, and believed there was a clear attempt to bribe her.

Government backbencher Nathan Barrett said her claims were "crazy and outlandish".

Minister Bess Price said she was sick of her former colleagues' "stunts" and accused them of engaging in racist and divisive politics.

Opposition Leader Delia Lawrie said Mr Maley and Mr Elferink should be stood down while police investigated the allegations.

"Otherwise all matters in the Magistrates Court risk disqualification because we have a magistrate accused of criminal behaviour," she said.

Labor lost the censure motion 10-12.