Bushranger
Laksa war super spicy
THE laksa wars are heating up and are spicier than a two-chilli scoop barbecue pork and prawn from Yatis. The Trailer Boat Club is taking things to the next level by offering to knock $2 off the price of its duck laksa to any patron who agrees – before they’ve received their meal – to give it five stars on the Laksa Festival App. Time to get ICAC involved.
Sam happy to help out
ONE of Bushie’s spies was at Robertson Barracks where a downpour almost ruined the formal farewell to Task Group Taji. A gentleman visiting his son needed to hitch a ride to the celebrations and asked the pair waiting to sign in behind him. Little did he know he asked Territory Senator Sam McMahon, who was happy to drive him up to the ceremony.
Willie still finds a way
BANNED Territory-born West Coast Eagle Willie Rioli faces a long wait on the sidelines as drug tampering allegations are investigated by the league and anti-doping authorities, meaning he’s spending a lot of time away from the training track as his teammates will begin pre-season in the next few weeks. However, it hasn’t stopped the premiership star getting a kick where he can, posting a video of him bouncing and kicking a plastic soft drink bottle, almost to perfection, as if it was a real footy. You know what they say – where there’s a Willie, there’s a way.
Hanna in Crimsafe muddle
TURNS out the saying if it’s not Crimsafe it’s not crim safe holds true. Restaurateur Jason Hanna apologised for ripping into the wellknown brand after his venue Lazy Susan’s Eating House was broken into. Turns out he hadn’t installed Crimsafe but an inferior brand. He said he would be heading out straight away to purchase the real thing.
No strangling a big bonus
THE NT News fired a shot across the country this week with a tweet pointing out that the weather in Australia’s inferior territory is still obscenely cold. But former ABC 7.30 reporter Jeremy Thompson – who was infamously attacked on-camera by then CLP member for Brennan Max Ortmann, who decided to wind up an interview by gently wrapping a microphone cord around Thompson’s trachea – made a convincing argument in the bush capital’s defence. “I’ve lived in both places,” he tweeted. “In Darwin, where I lived for three years, I got strangled. I’ve been in Canberra for 20 years and have not even been strangled once. I know what I prefer, the place in which I don’t get strangled.”
Gunner finds new calling
BE it next August or in five years time, Chief Minister Michael Gunner will one day face the inevitable politics gauntlet. But when he does he may have a second calling, after cocommentating the Waratah versus Tiwi Bombers NTFL match on Saturday afternoon. The patron member of the Tahs, Gunner seemed to know his way around the commentary box and kept the conversation flowing.