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CAMPAIGN WIN

A PROMINENT story in the NT News a week ago highlighted the desperate and tragic plight of Nightcliff residents, who just wanted to access their local Woolies but were needing to brave a challenging minefield of potholes. Bushie’s spies can happily update the public that only a few days after the story went to print, the potholes were filled in.

UN’APPY TIMES

THE new Covid alert notifications appear to be working better than the last dodgy offerings – the risk is that they are actually too informative. As the recipient of this message pointed out, when the Darwin Covid-19 vaccination centre is a hotspot, it’s a safe bet you’re losing the battle. Bushie’s spies have also reported the Cav as an exposure site. Tragic.

JUMPY JOSH

DURING a tour of the Defence of Darwin Experience last week, Josh Frydenberg was spooked after someone hit a button on an interactive presentation. Air raid alarms blared, prompting the Treasurer to physically jump. All the pollies, including Michael Gunner, Lia Finocchiaro, Sam

McMahon and Luke Gosling sat through the 12-minute presentation the Bombing of Darwin.

SHOES ON THE OTHER FOOT

ANY shoes are better than no shoes, right? Before a photo shoot by a local photographer down by a muddy waterway, residents were emailed to wear appropriate footwear – gumboots would have been perfect. One resident said via email he would “wear shoes”, but then turned up in a pair of velvet loafers – not the best choice to stop slipping and sliding in the mud.

CAR THEFT STALLS

TWO teenagers allegedly decided last week to take a joyride in a fancy Audi in Palmerston, but only made it 50m down the street before a “low speed crash”. The cops were overheard joking the attempt at a getaway was only foiled because this was the first time the alleged culprits had driven a manual vehicle.

TROUBLE IN PARADISE?

AMID hours spent scrolling social media, one of Bushie’s spies came across what appears to be trouble in paradise at the tight-knit ABC. When chook-loving Breakfast host Jo Laverty patted the NT government on the back for (finally) updating the Territory Check In app to include exposure sites we’ve visited, one of her colleagues seemed less than impressed. “A little too late, don’t you think … horse has bolted. What’s the point?” was the response from a southerly ABC producer.