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Territory Parliament is sitting and the NT News is there to bring you the drama, the doldrums and the deeds of derring do

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Dee Lozza gives the Deputy Speaker a roasting as he sits in the chair. Talks of Reclaim the Night, and refers back to claims of verbal abuse

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Wood looks tired. He's got a long four years ahead of him. Says he's sad by the tone in this alcohol debate. #ntpol

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`You think Francis Xavier don't care? He's a grandfather ... he's buried relatives through suicide, overdose of drugs and alcohol.' Anderson

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Anderson says she takes offence to Lawrie's inferences CLP doesn't care about pregnant mums drinking. Points to CLP's Francis Xavier ...

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Fight breaks out. Lawrie tells Anderson she's wrong on racial undertones. `I've been speech trained. I know what you're trying to infer.'

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Wow, things have gotten nasty. Anderson is accusing Lawrie of racial undertones, of speaking slowly to indigenous MLA Larisa Lee #ntpol

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G-Mac calls Elf a hypocrite for stereotyping Labor while criticising Labor for stereotyping. #ntpol

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Elf improves on that by affecting an Afrikaner accent when talking about Labor ideologies. Mama Kez puts a stop to it. #ntpol

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Elf draws a bow. Says Labor's ideology is linked to European white settlement ideology. `That was the policy of extermination.' Crikeys hey

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ALP's plan for Kurringal, Tomaris, Shiers, and Runge was to last 10 years. And had committed only $10m of the $25m it estimated was needed.

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Walker waxing lyrical on ALP's plan to redevelop four Darwin sites of public housing flats. But ALP hadn't exactly nailed down the cash 4 it

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Lozza suggests mortgage brokers, who didn't want a bar of deposit-free loans, would have settled for a 5% deposit scheme as an alternative

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Dee Lozza scathing of T Milly's talk of the dream to own homes. Says CLP scrapped My New Home that could have helped with that. #ntpol

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Age of urban public housing is impacting repairs and maintenance costs - T Milly

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Average age of urban public housing is 28 years old. Half is 20 to 29yrs old. 21% of stock is 30 to 39yrs old. About 12% is more than 40yrs

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Demand for public housing increased by 12% from 2009-10 to 2011-12. -- Terry Mills says existing stock failing to meet evolving needs #ntpol

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A home is like a bloody great millstone hung round your neck some days. Very biblical of me.

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Mills says homeowners more likely to have stable employment. Hmm...that may be fine, but lots of people expected to move for jobs these days

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T Milly kicks off a Ministerial statement on housing: says it's more than just bricks and mortar ... it cements a community

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GMac tells Elf off for asking Parli to 'just trust us' ... It's true, Elf used to give ALP a bucketing for that kind of tactic. #ntpol