The Best of the
Northern Territory
24 January 2000
NT News Comment
Money and the Commoner
What could you do with $4m?� Perhaps you could spend $700,000 on a dispute with a garbage contractor (Darwin City Council with a garbage contractor - Northern Territory News page 1) and then maybe $3.3m building a memorial playground to Princess Diana (page 2).� Or maybe not.
Why?
Celine Dion has issued a statement saying she ISN'T pregnant (page 3).� Does this mean Ugly Bob (of South Park fame) has a problem?
Unnatural pests
The Territory is not only a place where the natural world conquers all, it also attracts its fair share of unnatural rogues.� Seems as though it is no longer safe to go to the letterbox (page 4).� Not berms with French accents but British and Canadian lottery ticket scams.
The natural world, however, had another triumph with a landslip behind Government House yesterday (page 3).� If only I had $4m.....
Encouragement Award
Richard Earle summed up the true meaning of encouragement in reporting on the hard-fought Waratahs flogging of Wanderers in the NTFL league game yesterday (page 39) - 'Encouragingly Wanderers scored in every quarter'.
As an added encouragement the NTFL scoreboard on the same page gave Wanderers 60 points for their 5 goals and 4 behinds.� Perhaps the NTFL should join in the spirit and award Wanderers with 8 points a goal and 5 points a behind for the rest of the season.
Alas, no encouragement for the Wanderers reserves - they only scored one goal in the whole game and only got 6 points for their goal!
Tennant and District Times - The wait is worth it
Strange bedfellows
There is more to Tennant Creek than ...........� Put this event in your diary now.� The Tennant Creek Gun Club and the Tennant Creek Go-Karting Club are having their combined annual general meeting at the Bowling Club on 30 January 2000 at 6pm (page 14).� Conjures up lots of bizarre images and undoubtedly makes for an interesting night.
If you are wondering about the wait - the paper comes out on Friday but takes three days to get to Darwin - bring on the rail express.