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Grub’s up for Matt’s croc
CAMPERS at Sand Palms were treated with a rather unusual sight on Wednesday morning, as croc wrangler Matt Wright swung by to pick up a bloody carcass. One of the hotel proprietors had left a fresh pig’s leg on the grass, so Wright could pick it up to feed his croc Tripod. Swinging past, Wright tossed the bloody leg into the tray of his ute, waved a cheery smile to some old campers setting up their boats, and drove away.
Better late than never?
DARWIN ABC ran a longwinded piece on Thursday night this week about a brewing internal war inside the Labor Party which has been sparked by Chief Minister Michael
Gunner’s decision to overturn the fracking ban. The ‘scoop’s’ kicker was that the ABC ‘understood’ there was a push by Queensland’s branch of the CFMEU to overthrow current secretary Kent Rowe. Great story but anyone of the thousands of Territorians who read the front page of last week’s Sun
day Territorian more than four days earlier probably already ‘understood’ all those details and a fair bit more.
Sweet release required
THE people who know keep telling us how urgent funding is needed to kickstart the Territory economy in some rather bleak times. A huge debt delivered by the Gunner
Government’s Budget during the week only confirmed this. However, the business community’s concern is only further frustrated by the fact there are huge sums of cash waiting but unable to be kickstarted. The Cities Deal, NAIF, The Northern Territory Infrastructure Development Fund (from the sale of TIO) all have craploads of promised cash locked up but sitting idle. Time to get cracking!
Enticing Dave worth a shot
YOU have to commend the Darwin Cricket Club’s attempt in getting none other than David Warner to strap on the pads for its Round 4 Premier Grade clash against Waratah at Kahlin Oval yesterday. Warner is in the Top End at the moment promoting Territory-developed driving education app DriveAbout, with long-time friend and Eagles lower-grader Clinton Hoffman. Eagles president Morgan Yeo could not help but ask the dashing opening batsman, currently serving a ban for his involvement in the infamous ball-tampering saga in South Africa, if he’d further bolster the three-time defending champions’ batting line-up. “I asked him what would be the chances of playing for us and he said a flat ‘no’,” Yeo said with a laugh. “He’s just come off a pretty gruelling tour, so to come back up here and play a game was a big ask and I completely understand. I threw it out there — the worse thing he was going to say was no. We weren’t actively trying to get him, and him running a Milo junior clinic was a lot better value for us, than him playing one game of A-grade cricket for us.”
A really rotten question
ONE poor, or should we say paw, Darwin resident forgot to eat his pawpaw salad from the Parap Market last weekend and promptly took to only the best advice group around Darwin Buy, Sell, Swap and Wanted for advice on whether it was OK to eat. The poor chap, Mark Jehne got roasted for his silly question but we reckon he got Facebook hacked.
Loss of sausage rolls hurts
TERRITORIANS were told the budget would be bleak but we did not realise it would come to this. Sausage rolls were off the menu for journos stuck in the budget lock up. Bushie assumes the lack of the traditional staples were part of the cutbacks but the Government must remember hungry reporters are likely to be angry reporters when they deliver their stories.