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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012
Bravado or
just booze?
PUB: NT NEWS
DATE: 21-JAN-2012 PAGE: 34 COLOR: C M Y K
FOR reasons that probably have something to with
ego and boastfulness, some men just can’t help
stripping off at the slightest provocation.
Take the Sydneysiders who played cricket in the
nude in the corridor of a Darwin backpackers’ hostel
the other day.
The hostel judged them out, love muscle before
wicket, and withheld their good behaviour bond
when they checked out the next morning.
But manager Joe Manning conceded: ‘‘Playing
cricket naked is a traditional Australian male thing.’’
Of course, Territorians would find a nude bit of bat
and ball quite tame.
Late last year, a couple made love on the balcony of
a Darwin city centre apartment block — and didn’t
give a damn that a couple of dozen people had
gathered below to watch the fun.
And streaking across sports ovals, to the delight of
the crowd, became so commonplace that nobody
does it anymore.
Psychologists say that men like to prance around
naked because it makes them feel. . . well, manly.
They are, in effect, showing off their wares — to
attract women but, more importantly, to frighten off
male rivals for the women.
And nakedness makes them feel brave and daring —
masters of the world.
Many Territorians might argue that men strip off
and play cricket in the nude in hotel corridors in the
middle of the night for a far less intellectual reason
— they’re drunk.
... and another thing
BIKERS doing burnouts inside the Litchfield pub on
their Harleys was a tad different — even for the
Northern Territory. Then again, a man rode his horse
into the pub in Pine Creek a few years ago and ‘‘offered out’’ the whole bar. He was miffed when the
landlord banned him.
The Fixer
WHAT: Three titles
at the Cenotaph on
the Darwin
Esplanade are
misspelled.
WHO’S
RESPONSIBLE:
DCC general
manager for Infrastructure, Luccio Cercarelli.
CONTACT: (08) 8930 0581
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On this day
IN THE TERRITORY
34
NT NEWS. Saturday, January 21, 2012.
Letters
Mr Wood presented his personal views
to Parliament, not those of the people
NOT WHAT PUBLIC
WANTED, GERRY
GERRY Wood, in his letter
‘‘Inpex site battle was unwinnable’’, states that he was
against the site for the Inpex
workers’ village.
Hansard details the actual
parliamentary motion he
moved and he does suggest
another site, however he also
promotes the use of the current site (he had discussed
this with Inpex prior).
This is not a motion that
could be supported as it
proposes two opposing
options — hence its defeat
in Parliament.
Neither option was what
he was requested to put forward to the Government at
the public meeting held on
the issue.
At that meeting, the overwhelming majority requested that their local member (newly crowned king
maker) write to the Chief
Minister and strongly con-
- SEE LETTER BELOW
vey the opposition to a highdensity workers’ camp being
located in the rural area.
Gerry went against his
constituents’ wishes and instead moved an unwinnable
motion in Parliament.
One of his final statements
on the motion in Hansard is
‘‘I support the village in the
rural area’’.
Mr Wood presented his
personal views to Parliament, not those of the people
he is paid to represent.
Name and address withheld
DOING THE TIME
WARP AT KARAMA
I THINK I must be trapped in
some kind of the time warp.
Easter eggs on sale at
Karama now?
I see in NT News 18/1/12
that the Darwin Table Ten-
nis Association starts its
‘‘dry season competition’’ on
January 30.
Please send for Dr Who.
Name and address withheld
CHIP IN FOR BOB AND
HIS FAITHFUL MATE
LET’S save the happy dog!
Let’s all chip in and buy Bob
a sidecar for his faithful mate
Hannibal.
J Lovich, Winnellie
MEANING LOST
IN TRANSLATION
IN response to Peter Surplice
Darwin (NT News, January
19) criticising Les Fern’s article (January 16) ‘‘Socialism
has no place in Australia’’.
Peter, please use a dictionary for explanations of
both the words socialism
and communism.
Both have the same objective, ie. no private ownership
with all industry being both
state owned and controlled.
Also having absolute control over the population,
which is why the Iron
Curtain existed.
Again using a dictionary,
you’ll find that capitalism
supports private ownership
of industry, which is the exact opposite of both socialism
and communism.
The services that we have
in Australia you mentioned
in your article is because of
capitalism, not socialism.
So please keep it that way.
Name and address withheld
PLEASE EXPLAIN
THE DIFFERENCE
COULD someone from the
Dept of Immigration and
Citizenship please explain
the difference between a
migrant and an asylum
seeker? Confused.
Name and address withheld
10 YEARS AGO: THE Territory may
20 YEARS AGO: A HIGHLY unstable
25 YEARS AGO: A SEARCH party
become the best performing regional
economy in 2002, according to the
Australian Financial Review.
World War II hand grenade with the pin
missing was found and then thrown at
the Palmerston dump yesterday.
has rescued five adults and three
children after their 15m ketch was
grounded by Cyclone Irma in the
Gulf of Carpentaria last night.
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