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LAW AND DISORDER

THEY say justice moves slowly but we didn’t realise that also applied to window repairs. It’s been more than two months since the NT Supreme

Court was attacked by unknown vandals. Five panes at the Supreme Court entrance were smashed in May, with the force of the attack causing the security glass to buckle in.

Was it a case of a disgruntled court attendee, or a random attack? We don’t know. A Bushie spy was told the replacement glass had to be specially made and shipped in. We hope the replacements come soon. It’s not a great look for the court‘s principals of openness and transparency to have its windows boarded up.

WAY UP IN THE SKY, LITTLE DARLIN’

IT appears when organisers of the big Darwin Racing Carnival events think of horse racing, they also think of skydiving. At the Gala Ball and the Darwin Cup, parachuting enthusiasts heralding flags descended on the Turf Club in a celebration of ... horses? Bushie is not sure if it’s a metaphor for the new heights the sport might be going to or if the organisers were just taking Daryl Braithwaite’s lyrics a about flying way up high in The Horses a bit too seriously.

POTTY TALK

A LOCAL criminal lawyer was good enough to stop by the NT News’ table at the pub on Friday night for a chat. We can’t tell you what was discussed under pain of a defamation suit that could bring even a company with the heft of News Corp Australia to its knees. But we can reveal the conversation was brought to a hasty end when the advocate declared, “Alright, I gotta go take a s--t”.

While we’re on the topic of lawyers, we’d also like to congratulate the one who managed to get his client a very short sentence this week: Four words on the front page of the NT News.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

YOLGNU elders welcomed international, Australian and Territory representatives to join them on the sandy dancefloors at the concert at the first night of Garma. As the women got up to join the bungul (dancing), Elders gave “the Prime Minister’s wife” a special shout out. Unfortunately the woman joining the dancefloor was not Mr Albanese’s wife or partner — but his Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney.