No love lost
in politics
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❏ ONE gracious turn deserves
another — except in politics.
When CLP strategist John
Elferink was suffering personal
problems, Labor’s Damian Hale
telephoned him to offer his moral
support. Apparently, the call was
much appreciated at the time.
But that didn’t stop John using
parliamentary privilege — the rule
that allows politicians to say
what they like about people
without being sued for
defamation — to launch a vicious
personal attack on Damian just
before the federal election. Such
is politics.
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a receptionist replied. This
reminds Bushranger of Telstra
once refusing to make public
the name of its NT public
relations officer.
What the ...
❏ WORK out this Darwin
numberplate: 26E4U.
Snouts in trough
Cop this Steve
❏ THE attacks on deputy
Opposition leader Kezia Purick
for planning a taxpayer-funded
jaunt to Africa are fair enough.
But it should be remembered
that Labor’s Jane Aagaard took
a similar jolly to London to meet
the Queen last year.
❏ BUSHRANGER would like to
celebrate one of the better police
names in the Territory —
Stephen Constable. He’s now
Sergeant Constable, which is a
tad like Major Major in Catch 22.
Are there any more quirky
names out there?
PUB: NT NEWS
Pretty in pink
Only in the Territory ...
❏ PIETER BEKKERS sent this picture in of a road safety
warning at a Northern Territory railway crossing.
DATE: 29-AUG-2010
sent him an SMS asking what he
was doing. He replied: ‘‘We need
’em for the polling booth.’’
Sign of times
Kiwi joins fold
❏ T-SHIRT seen at Roma Bar:
Pirates of the Kidney Beehan —
Nightcliff Renal Unit. Sponsored
By XXXX GOLD.
❏ DARWIN Port Corporation has
finally appointed a new
harbourmaster to replace Bruce
Wilson. He is a Kiwi named Ian
Niblock. The corporation paid a
headhunting company $45,000
to find Ian, who becomes Bruce’s
boss. He has experience in
handling pollution crises.
Text magic
❏ A WOMAN realised she knew
the man stealing witches hats
from road works in Darwin. She
Bright sparks
❏ BILL Hodge says vandals who
smashed election posters with a
star picket on Vanderlin Drive,
Darwin, were kind enough to
leave their mobile phone behind.
Quirky Tennant
❏ ELECTION footnote: the Sex
Party received 69 votes in
Tennant Creek.
Hi-tech savvy
❏ THE hazards of computer
technology: the internet
signature of Darwin’s Cate
Swannell was transcribed as
‘‘acting deputy nerd wrangler
pro tem’’.
Mum's the word Hi Ho Silver
❏ WE live in a secretive age:
Bushranger telephoned a
Darwin company and asked for
the name of the boss. ‘‘Sorry, I
can’t give out that information,’’
❏ THE sign at the entry to the
new Tiger Brennan Drive
extension at Palmerston
says: ‘‘Prohibited —
horse-drawn vehicles.’’
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❏ THE colour of the Dragons
Abreast fight against breast
cancer is pink — so burly biker
Phil Alexander wore a pink pair
of bloomers over his jeans
during the fund-raising ride
through Darwin.
56 — Sunday Territorian, Sunday, August 29, 2010
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