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CENTRE FOR NATIONAL SILLINESS

IT may now be defunct, but the

Howard Springs quarantine facility continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. Now this might be on us, but we took to the masses to ask how they suggest the space could be used.

Among the calls for emergency housing for homelessness and domestic violence were some left-of-field ideas for the powers-who-be to consider.

A “super brothel – the next big tourist destination” was floated as a potential way to get Howard Springs on the map. Dan Murphy’s was also suggested because our readers are nothing if not consistent.

CROWS IN CAMO

A BUSHIE spy spotted a few Crows flapping around Darwin this week but they weren’t in their usual tricolours. The southerners had swapped out their AFLW kit for some army camo to blend in among the defence force at the Robertson Barracks. Bushie is wondering if this is a new strategy from the Adelaide Football Club. The other teams can’t steal the flag if they can’t see the players.

WINNERS ARE GRINNERS

EVERYONE loves a good cake. In a battle between journalists and pollies in the Celebrity Bake-Off at the Royal Darwin Show, Bushie was happy to hear the journos had it. One of Bushie’s spies also heard Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro let the truth slip out. We tell our kids it’s all about participating but really we all love to win, she joked. NT Administrator Vicki O’Halloran backed her up, saying she’d always encouraged her daughter Coco to just try her best in hockey comps but dad Craig O’Halloran had the opposite idea. ‘In it to win it’ is understood to have been his policy.

SQUEAKY CLEAN

TALK about a dusty Sunday morning. A pedestrian was literally cleaned up by a street sweeper in the Darwin CBD last week. The driver of the vehicle called for help, but when paramedics arrived the victim in question was nowhere to be seen. Bushie has so many questions about this messy ordeal if the person’s identity ever comes out in the wash. Let’s just hope the guy who survived this brush with death had some medical assistance if it was required.