The Country Liberals frontbencher who helped orchestrate a failed coup against the Northern Territory's chief minister has been sacked from cabinet.
"The chief minister has dumped me from cabinet earlier today," former education minister Robyn Lambley told reporters at Darwin Airport on Wednesday.
She said it did not come as a surprise.
Ms Lambley helped rally the nine members of the Country Liberals' parliamentary wing to replace Mr Giles with frontbencher Willem Westra van Holthe at a late-night meeting on Monday.
Mr Giles refused to stand down, saying the would-be mutineers did not have the numbers to replace him.
He appointed Mr Westra van Holthe his deputy on Tuesday night after a four-hour parliamentary wing meeting.
"Obviously heads had to fall and the chief minister Adam Giles has chosen my head to fall," Ms Lambley said.
"I question the rationale around that, but I have not supported Adam Giles through this leadership challenge, I threw my weight behind Willem Westra van Holthe, who I believe is a far better person to manage the business of the Northern Territory."
She said she and Mr Giles did not share certain values.
"There are a number of values I hold very dearly: honesty, integrity and respect, and those three things I don't see in the chief minister of the NT," she said.
"He lacks honesty, he lacks respect, and he lacks integrity, and for those reasons I feel quite relieved to be stood down from cabinet today."
Ms Lambley said a leadership vote was not taken in the full parliamentary wing meeting on Tuesday night.
"He does not have the full confidence of the parliamentary wing, I believe," she said.
Ms Lambley said she was going home to Alice Springs to consider her future "in all respects" but was currently a backbencher.
The Country Liberals' Alice Springs branch is expected to debate her future tonight.
Mr Giles will also be there, as a fellow Alice Springs member.
Mr Giles declined to say whether her sacking was the "carnage" he predicted if he remained leader.
He said she had to take responsibility for causing destabilisation in the government and the wider community.
"She's done some tremendous things while she's been in government ... Obviously these things are always personally challenging for people."
He said Ms Lambley had been a Country Liberals party member for a long time and was well supported by the local branch.
He would not respond to the comments she made about his lack of values.
When asked about whether she would be dropped from the party, he said: "Robyn is a person of integrity and someone who values Country Liberals strongly, and I don't think she wants to see any more destabilisation."
He would not comment on reports that Speaker Kezia Purick and frontbencher Bess Price threatened to leave the party if Mr Westra van Holthe became leader.
He would also not comment on why Ms Lambley was sacrificed, or whether it was part of a deal made with Mr Westra van Holthe as "compensation".
Mr Giles and Ms Lambley were both travelling to Alice Springs on the same flight on Wednesday afternoon.
In seats 1D and 1A across the aisle from one another, it's likely to be an awkward flight.
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