The chief minister of the Northern Territory has called rebel MP Alison Anderson a "sideshow" as she continues to rock his government.
Ms Anderson and two fellow indigenous government backbenchers, Larissa Lee and Francis Xavier Kurrupuwu, have had the NT in a tailspin since walking out of parliament last week.
The three have called the government racist and say they will probably leave the Country Liberal Party to sit on the crossbenches.
A leaked list of demands was published by News Corp Australia last week, asking for a new Aboriginal Affairs Department with Ms Anderson as minister, Ms Lee to be junior minister for youth, sport and recreation, parks and wildlife and women's affairs, and Mr Kurrupuwu to be made a parliamentary secretary and chair of an audit committee responsible for Aboriginal affairs, education, heath, community development, economic development and employment.
According to the list, they also called for ministers Matt Conlan, Bess Price, Peter Styles, and Peter Chandler and to be dropped from the ministry, although the trio claim they didn't ask for the heads of the latter two.
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Chief Minister Adam Giles would not comment on whether the government had leaked and doctored the list.
"I'm not getting into scurrilous rumours. Let's put this horrible event behind us," he told reporters in Darwin on Wednesday.
"I'm not commenting on the list. It's their list. They can talk about it."
Ms Anderson on ABC radio on Wednesday called Mr Giles a "little boy", a repeat of her slurs against him when he allegedly refused the position of deputy chief minister last year, before he rolled then-chief minister Terry Mills last March.
"We just want Territorians to make sure they don't trust this little boy," she said.
Mr Giles, who is indigenous, dismissed the insult.
"It's no skin off my nose," he said.
"They can go and play games in their little sideshow on the side. I'm getting out there with my big boy pants on and doing the job everyone expects us to do, and that's govern for the NT."
He implied Ms Anderson was insulting him because negotiations between him and the three rebel MPs had broken down, with him firing their two advisors and suspending Ms Anderson from the parliamentary wing of the CLP.
