Bushranger

Loudly humble

Member for Katherine Sandra Nelson has loudly declared she is not one to big note herself. From parliament: “I am not one to big note myself, to talk about what I do. I am a quiet achiever”. Just moments later, Ms Nelson declared: “The hypocrisy knows no bounds in the Chamber sometimes”. Ms Nelson later uploaded a typically tedious Facebook video detailing every minor meeting she went to, quietly.

Catering woes

As the kids of inner suburban environmentalists protested against climate change and fracking in Darwin on Friday, the lads from the CFMEU were on BBQ duty. Before things got going, the ”100 per cent meat free” sausages had been binned because of the theory the BBQ would “spit ‘em back off”.

Fatal attraction

While some teenagers like to protest, others prefer to hang around Casuarina shops getting into blues. This week one such girl, on bail for an armed robbery, was arrested there on Thursday and spent the night in Darwin watch house. Justice Peter Barr queried: “What is this girl’s fatal attraction to Casuarina Square?”

Time for the Razor Gang

Labor backbencher Kate Worden revealed this week what really matters to the bloated public service — not having to move their own office chairs when they’re shuffled from one overpaid gig to another. “A lot of people might downplay office services,” she said. Someone fetch Treasurer Nicole Manison’s Razor Gang.

Keep it in the family

Speaker Kezia Purick told parliament this week that when she passed on the tragic news of former MLA Fred Finch’s passing to her esteemed mum, Noel Padgham-Pu

rich, Ms Padgham-Purich said: “Oh, I liked him!”. Ms Purick said: “Coming from my mother that is high praise, because she really doesn’t like anyone except for her family.”

Lock the doors

Deputy Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro told parliament this week people were becoming afraid of going out at night in some of the Territory’s grog hot spots. Attorney- General Natasha Fyles yelled: “fearmongering!”. Sounds like Fylesy might need to go for a whip around her electorate office at night to see how much the fear is being mongered.

Just not your day, Steve

Tennant Creek Mayor Steve Edgington would not take no for an answer when he asked to give a speech at an International Women’s Day do a couple of weeks back. After missing out on getting a guernsey to say a few words on the day he took matters into his own hands to make a few off the cuff comments. Bushie’s spies tell us he stormed the stage demanding to say a few words. It was a battle of wills and Steve’s lost when he was forced to awkwardly shuffle off the stage when the mic wasn’t handed over.