Northern Territory's Burnham, Ed Smelt, has been elevated to Deputy Leader! Problem is, uibo has absolutely pissed off the left in doing so! He'll be leader by 28 regardless. https://t.co/2rfC72WrdQ
I think Labor people have failed to recognise that Pauline is now amazingly close to power - and, unless the libs manage to wrangle themselves into something resembling a competent party, that they are the only ones who can stop her. They really need to.
@GunnerTas If you want to count town camps as suburbs, Tennant Creek has multiple at 3k. I know Elliott does as well, but I think the town camps are bigger than the actual town
In a first of its kind, a ranking of NT Chief Ministers:
1. Gunner
2. Martin
3. Letts
4. Perron
5. Henderson
6. Fyles
7. Everingham
8. Hatton
9. Lawler
10. Burke
11. Mills
12. Stone
13. Tuxworth
14. Giles
No point doing it as a tierlist - no one above a C.
"Working people sent us a message, and we have to change and we have to do it quickly"
Labour MP Catherine West says she wants to see more "grit" from the Cabinet, and for them to hold Sir Keir Starmer accountable following the election results
@samlutd I don't know if the ONP tradition of leaving will continue. It's developing at pace into a real, occasionally professional political organisation and Pauline seems willing to cede the spotlight somewhat?
@StrewthQueen@NotTelling_XP I strongly agree with your general point, Abbott is a fuckwit (but there's worse in the Libs). But aboriginal towns are subsidised unlike anywhere else. I don't see why we should pretend not. It's a indictment of govs that all this money has been poured in without great success.
grover wound up a bit ahead of the curve in demonstrating that you can do shit without any prior demonstration of knowledge if you also have no expectations for safety, aesthetics, utility, cost
now we have a groverhaus government, a groverhaus economy, groverhaus culture, etc
NT budget yesterday. Was as you'd expect - dumped money into dumb law & order shit, bit of money for infrastructure and health. Unbelievable cuts to dosmetic violence support and town camps - after Little Baby's death.
Economy doing well enough to get CLP over the line in 28!