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SINNERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
POTS were stirred by young whipper snappers who own a popular Darwin CBD burger joint. To put the relevance of Easter to good use, Good Thanks posted an image of an upside down cross and said “Wagwan, heathen cavedwellers! Don’t be cross, the bar is open Good Friday 5pm-Late & Kitchen from 6-9pm. You too, can get hammered for your sins! CLOSED SAT & SUN. Come hang out x”. With more than 200 comments, the post struck up quite a storm of community engagement, with Territorians either opposing or applauding the post. Even the Lord Mayor of Darwin Kon Vatskalis shared his views.
NICE MEMES, MINISTER
Health Minister Natasha Fyles is wellknown for sticking to the script at a press conference. But in rare deviation from her usual form she delivered a zinger that would have done Bill Shorten proud on Thursday. Pleading for the public to get their Covid-19 information from a trusted source, she said: “Dr Facebook and Dr Tik Tok aren’t going to help you when you’re sick with Covid.”
THE T ADDRESS IS A MESS
AS A this column has noted on multiple occasions, the Fifth Floor has been having some disastrous media events of late. The other week, it was one minister being an hour late to a press conference after journalists were instructed to be punctual. This week, it was media outlets being provided the wrong address. Journalists rocked up to the provided location, which was a vacant storage place. Perhaps it was an abstract metaphor for the government. It didn’t take long for another text to come through from a presumably panicked staffer, relocating the crew to an address a few minutes down the road.
LUCK OF THE DRAW
THE NT’s draw to determine the order of candidates on the federal election ballot paper proved fertile grounds for Bushie spies on Friday. They witnessed Labor’s Luke Gosling skipping into the room about 30 minutes late, carefree and mellow. His mates Malarndirri
McCarthy and Marion Scrymgour were notably absent, and so too was the CLP’s Damien Ryan. His mates Jacinta Price and Tina MacFarlane might as well not have gone either, given their press conference was abruptly cut short after two minutes, to the bewilderment of onlookers.