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THE KREME OF THE CROP
BUSHIE has learnt how to deduce through a keen eye and heightened powers of observation who is a Darwin resident and who isn’t at the nation’s airports. For instance, on Thursday night a person was spotted entering Brisbane’s domestic terminal with five boxes of Krispy Kremes. They were undoubtedly bound for the Top End. However, this signature tell may soon come to an end if the much-vaunted Gateway drive-through ever materialises.
CRANKY STORMS
WHEN looking through social content from Darwin’s midweek storms, one of Bushie’s spies stumbled across an unusual case of someone getting a little too close to the situation. Not physically, but emotionally. A Parap woman sent in footage to video platform Storyful from Wednesday’s storm, calling it “the crankiest lightning I’ve ever seen”. Makes you wonder what she thinks of thunder ...
CELEBRITY TERRITORIAN
FORMER Collingwood player and coach Nathan Buckley has recently turned reality star, jumping into the jungle in I’m A Celebrity. It hasn’t been the easiest start to the former footy star’s television stardom when he was shown fainting last week. The Territorian this week mentioned he knew he was famous when he read about himself in the NT News. Here’s another mention.
LOYAL TO A FAULT
AN Alice Springs man has shown the Local Court where his loyalties lie after pleading guilty to drink-driving while his licence was suspended for more drink-driving. On hearing the matter had been adjourned, the man picked up his belongings, popped on his Victoria Bitter hat, and left the courtroom.
KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE
BUSHIE isn’t sure why you’d write a book about somebody you hate, but that’s exactly what former Julia Gillard staffer Sean Kelly has done to Scott Morrison. The free-for-all hatchet job includes an account of the then new PM’s desperate scramble to get a piece of legislation through Parliament on urgency which involved an 8000km round trip from Canberra to Humpty Doo where then governor-general Sir Peter Cosgrove was visiting the school.