Bushranger

Send Bushranger a tip-off I Phone: 8944 9732 I Email: news@ntnews.com.au

Beverley bamboozled

INDEPENDENT candidate for Nelson Bever

ley Ratahi claims to have a lot of ideas as to how to help the rural area, but clearly she has no idea as to the name of the current MLA in the area since 2001, who is endorsing her. In a Facebook post, Ratahi announced she had been endorsed by independent incumbent Gerry Nelson. Bushie thinks she may have the electorate on the mind ... it’s actually

Gerry Wood in that position right now.

Time travel a real pest

A PEST control company may have employed Dr Who recently by sending a reminder letter to a Zuccoli resident that their termite spraying was due as it needs to be done every eight years. The letter goes on to say the last time it was done was in 2016 when the home was built. Either their maths is way out or there is some time travelling going on.

Motel in call to arms

THE Mataranka Motel is telling patrons the cold hard truth – if you can’t drink for three then get out. In a cheeky roadside sign it asked pub-goers to drink for three to make up for the social distancing shortfall. If you can’t guzzle enough, it asked for people to leave their seat to the professionals. Time to get practising folks.

Go easy on hashtags

POLITICIANS on Facebook is a plague on democracy. What is it with hashtags? Labor MLA Tony Sievers needs to be stopped. He has a collection of hashtags so large it would need two pages of this fine publication. Some examples include #luvpalmy #palmypups and whatever #funfoodmusic means.

CLP’s profile stuck in past

SPEAKING of social media, it might be time for one party to update its Twitter profile.

According to the Country Liberal Party’s description, all tweets are still authorised by

Jason Riley. This seems odd, considering Ron Kelly has been in the role for a fairly long time now. But perhaps the party has simply lost the password to the account ... the last time it tweeted was May 16, 2019.

Coughing up confusion

THE NT is all but coronavirus free, so it was less scary and more just awkward when Chief Minister Michael Gunner descended into a coughing fit during his press conference on Thursday. Calm down, he just needed a sip of water. What didn’t help was when he went to get a glass of water, Tourism Rebound Taskforce chairman Michael Bridge walked up to the podium and had a little cough himself. Test, trap and trace!

Thanks for getting baddies

SOMETIMES a kind word is all it takes to make someone’s day, and who better to offer a kind word to than our frontline workers. Officers from the Casuarina Police Sta

tion were treated to a touching note from a local family thanking them for their service to the community. One of the writers was a four-year-old who said they love the police “because the police get the bad guys and put the bad guys in jail”. Bushie hopes it put a smile on our officers’ faces.

Lauren’s absence strange

IT took a long time for the NT Government to finally come to the table with a voucher stimulus package for the NT tourism industry. A noticeable absentee from the big announcement was Tourism Minister Lauren

Moss, who was on the original line-up.

Something doesn’t add up

BUSHIE wonders where Chief Minister Mi

chael Gunner did his maths in school. While complaining on radio about the Alice Springs Town Council, the Chief said half of the council is running as candidates in the coming Territory election. Only two of the Alice councillors are candidates. Maybe that’s why the Territory finances are in such a bad state.

News hits right note

BUSHIE is proud to announce the NT News has been turned into a musical masterpiece. Socially isolated songstress Gabbi Bolt began using it as inspiration for her songs recently, hinting the ditty about an explosive dump in a taxi might be the first in a series.