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Bushwhacked SPOTTED at Darwin’s Shoal Bay dump shop: ‘‘If you don’t live here f--- off’’ spraypainted in large blue letters on a door.
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SMALLSDISTRACTIONAMEMBER of the NT Parliament haswarned ladies in the chamber’spublic gallery that, if theywearshort skirts, their undergarmentsare visible from the floor.
IT’S FINALLYOFFICIALSOLOMONMPNatasha Griggs‘‘officially’’ opened an Aboriginalwomen’s hostel during theweek.But the hostel had been open sinceJuly 2012. Apparently, the reasongivenwas that it had not been‘‘officially’’ opened until a politiciangot their bite of the cherry.
SHORTMEMORYLABOR has been getting stuck into
the CLP for selling off public housingproperties in Alice Springs. Theymust have a short memory. Between2004-05 and 2009-10, the then-Labor Governmentmade$108.9 million from the sale ofpublic housing — but spent just$61.7 million building new homes.
NEWFRAMEOFMINDTHENT Education Department isconsidering documenting theAboriginal art in schools. Some of itwas gifted by organisations, locals,parents, students, and artists, at atimewhen it was not necessarilyprofitable or popular, especially inremote schools. Educationpartnerships executive director
Kevin Gillen said: ‘‘There’s millions ofdollars worth of art in schools’’.
BUTBETTERBEQUICKTHERE have been unconfirmedreports that some of those artcollections have ‘‘gonemissing’’ orbeen taken away to ‘‘keep themsafe’’. If anyone knows anythingabout this, please feel free to let usknow on 8944 9724.
DON’T SNOREATTHE LAWROLANDO Loro Secowas everylawyer’s worst nightmarewhen heyawned thewhole way through hiscourt case last week. MagistrateMichael Careywas fit to explode bythe time he fined Seco $200 and
told him not to break his domesticviolence order again.
SUREBEATSANESKYA TENDER has been offered toinstall four state-of-the-art under-bar display fridges in the NitmilukLounge on the fourth floor ofDarwin’s Parliament House. The newbar will have three stainless-steelbenchtops and two new glass doorinserts with heated sealed double-glazed glass doors to preventcondensation. The shelveswill beLED-lit.
DEPTOFOPTIMISMTHENT Primary IndustryDepartment sent out a detailed
statement about theworthy OldMan Plains Field Day for pastoralists,held in Alice Springs on Tuesday. Butthe informationwas sent out at8.21am, nineminutes before theevent was scheduled to start. Evenif media were to advertise it online,prospective show-goers would havelittle time to change their plans,pack up the ute, and head along forthe day.
STICKY SITUATIONCHANNEL 9 reporter Elle Mitaroshas been pulled up by viewersfor chewing gum during an on-camera interview.
Lingiari-ing too longIT’S been more than a month since thefederal election, but the CLP’s failed can-didate for Lingiari, Tina MacFarlane,seems to still be chasing votes on the cor-ner of the Arnhem and Stuart highways.
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Diggersopposeshrine’sburialEXCLUSIVEBy IANMcPHEDRAN
SOLDIERS serving in Af-ghanistan are furious thatthe top brass want to destroya memorial wall at the mainbase in Oruzgan Provincethat carries the names of 40Australians killed duringour longest war.
According to the plan, thenames of the dead will bepainted over and the threelarge reinforced concreteT-wall panels they are writ-ten on broken down andburied on site.
Many Diggers, the famil-ies of those soldiers killedand the Australian WarMemorial all want thewall removed and takenback to Australia to be dis-played at the national mem-orial in Canberra.
Territorian Ray Palmer,whose son Commando Priv-ate Scott Palmer was killedin a helicopter crash in Af-ghanistan in 2010, said hewould be upset and angry ifthe wall was not broughtback or taken to another ofthe coalition countries.
‘‘I don’t care where it goes,I just don’t want it buried,’’Mr Palmer said.
‘‘If they can bring every-thing else (back) . . . surelythis can’t be difficult.’’
Mr Palmer said he wasdisappointed he had notbeen asked his thoughts onthe decision to bury the wall
and he was ‘‘damn surethere are a lot of families outthere that wouldn’t wantthis to happen’’.
The memorial features 114names of all coalition troops(Australian, American,Dutch and French) based atCamp Holland in OruzganProvince who have died dur-ing the war.
Commanding officer ofthe force extraction unit,Lieutenant Colonel PaulWright of Canberra, said heunderstood the significanceof the wall to soldiers andthe families of the fallen.
However, with the deadfrom four nations includedit was not a simple matterand it would have to be cutinto pieces to preserve theAustralian names.
‘‘That was not deemed anappropriate way to treat thewall,’’ he said.
The plan to paint out thenames, break it up and buryit has been approved by allfour nations, but ColonelWright admitted that no onehad asked the questionabout repatriating the en-tire wall to Australia.
The key factor in the de-cision to destroy it was toprevent names from fallinginto the enemy hands andbeing used as propaganda.
Australian War Memorialdirector Brendan Nelsonsaid he would like to seethe memorial displayed atthe museum.
Maddie Simpson, Alex Woodward and Jaimi Munro will be washing cars for a good cause today Picture: ELISE DERWIN
Bikini car wash a cause for celebrationA PALMERSTON pub willbe raising eyebrows andpulses — and money forgood causes.
Arch Rival Bar and Rest-aurant workers have swap-ped uniforms for swimwearto run a bikini car washevery Sunday.
Archie’s owner Jason
Hanna said the event wasrun originally to fund raisefor the U.G.L.Y. Bartender,which gives money to theLeukaemia Foundation.
But the soapy suds sessionproved so popular it has con-tinued with an original openmic night being run in con-junction for punters to enjoy
while their cars are cleaned.‘‘It’s raising money for
worthy causes and it’s bring-ing in a crowd so it’s a win-win,’’ Mr Hanna said.
With the recent devas-tation of the NSW bushfiresthe car washers said theywould like to donate today’sfunds to the appeal that
would assist victims wholost their homes. Mr Hannasaid the bikini car washwould regularly change thecharity causes.
Today’s carwash will startat noon at Archie’s, 11 Uni-versity Ave, Palmerston. Allmoney raised will go to theRed Cross Bushfire Appeal.
Chained-up charitybid linked to crash
The ‘Chained Up’ car wash
A MOTORIST allegedlycrashed his car into amotorbike rider after beingdistracted by a charity bi-kini carwash.
NT Police Duty Superin-tendent Helen Braam saidthe 22-year-old male wascharged with driving withundue care.
The incident happened at12.40pm yesterday outsideBeaurepaires on the StuartHighway in Parap.
Women were giving carsa good clean in their two-piece bathing suits, raisingmoney for charity — whilechained up.
The 65-year-old rider of
the motorbike was trans-ported to Royal DarwinHospital with cuts tohis leg.
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