Jeff Collins was sacked from the Labor caucus after speaking out publicly in regard to the Northern Territory's economic struggles last December.
"I think there's no doubt it was done out of spite. They moved a motion without any notice to myself, didn't even bother to tell me. Fairly obvious there's some collusion there," he told 9news.
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