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LET’S TALK ABOUT ME

IT’S not often that Bushie takes a shot at the home publication, but it was funny to be a fly on the wall of the NT News this week. A particular highlight was a significant flap among the paper’s editorial team after it was alerted to the fact that numbers 51 to 60 of the 120 Most Powerful List were somehow not printed in the paper. Bushie understands the NT News was only informed of this glaring omission after a distraught Dr Robert Parker from the Australian Medical Association, who ranked at #53, asked a reporter where his listing was – a week after it was meant to be in print.

DID HE CHECK IN?

THANKS to the member of the public who sent in a photo of an intruder in the Bunnings garden section. A colourful caterpillar on a food safari.

JUST A PRANG BRO

THERE were chaotic scenes at a press conference on

Tuesday morning. First, a journo almost skidded his car out of control in front of a Minister while trying to find a park. Then, a tradie collided with a chain-link fence not once, but twice. The first time was while Eva Lawler was addressing the press, with reporters doing well to hide their laughs behind face masks.

WE’RE ON TERRITORY TIME HERE

A SECURITY guard has told one of Bushie’s spies that all the clocks in the Supreme Court are set a few minutes ahead. Effectively the Darwin legal system is in its own time zone. Another interesting fact about the Supreme Court is that its lavatories appear overstocked with bog roll, so there’s an option for anyone who missed out because of panic buying.

EXCITING TIMES TO TURN AROUND

AUTHORITIES made a gamechanging announcement this week that may have flown under the radar. You can now perform a U-turn at the signalled intersection of Bagot Rd and McMillans Rd. Many were probably unaware you couldn’t c chuck a u-ey unless it was w signed.

MODELLING CAREER MMN

NT chief health officer Hugh Heggie has befuddled the Territory with his latest modelling of the Covid outbreak. Dr Heggie said the peak p of the Omicron wave would come in the first week of February, but, when asked how many cases would be recorded at the peak, said that wasn’t a figure they had calculated. “We’ve done some basic modelling … it doesn’t go to the number of cases, it goes to when the peak will occur.”

PUT IN REVERSE

QUESTION to the Motor Vehicle Registry. Why does it take a month to get a new driver’s licence in the event of misplacing the original? It’s a serious backward step given until recently they could be replaced instantly. It also leaves many unable to buy grog.