One thing for sure is that next time around, the CLP will be spending a lot more time vetting candidates, particularly those who wear big belt buckles and even bigger hats.
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The NT’s Country Liberal Party: the “fair-go” party for domestic violence
Last Friday Crikey’s favourite tabloid, the NT News published this piece by Nigel Adlam on Leo Abbott, the Country Liberal Party, disclosing that Abbott had been charged with 22 breaches of a Domestic Violence Order.
Media briefs: The Age gets its writ … new-look NT News …
The much trumpeted defamation writ from the Football Federation of Australia to The Age newspaper has finally arrived. Also, the NT News to get more crocs and print outlets push for apps to be included in circulation figures.
Wankley Awards: Overington is Greg’s poet laureate
Caroline Overington’s heartfelt love letter to Liberal Party pin-up Greg Hunt was one of the most sickening pieces of newspaper text we’ve read in some time. Even including the NT News.
Story of the Day: Cheesed off at the NT News
The NT News has once again combined its crack team of investigative reporters with biting subeditorial wit to bring readers a tasty morsel of journalistic gold.
Vox Pop of the Week: Nature lovers in the NT News
The Liberal leadership? Asylum seekers? CPRS? What on earth could be the topic du jour for the nation’s Territorians?
An NT News Ex-poo-sive
The NT News, bless their little cotton socks-and-sandles, had another corker front page yesterday, with poo jokes a-plenty and some of the gold-standard pun-age.
Political snippets: Trouble in paradise for Libs and Nats
The Liberals and Nationals are on the verge of completely breaking down, more Aussies are behind bars, Perth ambulances have been left out in the cold, and a croc on the cover of the NT News? Must be Thursday.
Political snippets: Should Rudd really root for MacKillop’s sainthood?
Richard Farmer reveals breakthroughs in hairy back research and asks if our lapsed Catholic Prime Minister — who now prays as an Anglican — is really the best person to lobby the cause of Mary MacKillop’s sainthood.
One thing is black and white, NT Labor’s time is up
While many of the failures of Labor in the NT have been felt by the wider NT electorate, it is no coincidence that Henderson’s government has been brought to its knees by an Aboriginal woman, writes Bob Gosford.
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