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16 Mar 2000
Northern Territory News headlines
'Petrol rage hits Darwin'
Dramatic scenes in Darwin as service station staff are being abused and threatened with violence over the high price of petrol. Console operators are threatening to quit and it is feared that caravaners won't visit the Territory or cut their visits short.
'Floods worsen: p2'
'More rain means more flood pain'
Weather forecasters continue to forecast more monsoonal rains over the next few days leading to expectations that flood conditions for residents in remote communities will not improve. The Katherine River rose to 15m overnight bringing back bad memories of the 1998 floods for residents. But in typical NT fashion, the evacuated Daly River residents (mostly indigenous) could be forced to move from Batchelor College to temporary camp sites for the next three weeks due to lack of funding. I wonder if it would be an issue if they were white middle class CLP voters.
'Lapping up life in Top End: lions get a taste of bush tucker'
'The latest man-eating additions to Darwin's Crocodylus Park turned up their noses when they were offered some kangaroo meat yesterday'. It turns out that these lions really prefer horse meat. So it begs the question, why were they being fed kangaroo meat?
'Student lunch box 'rife with disease''
'The innocent ham sandwich sitting in a school bag for four hours may not seem like a deadly disease carrier but for hundreds of Territory children it could cause serious sickness'. So comes the warning from Environmental Health director Xavier Schobben. Specific warnings were given on meat, chicken and yoghurt. Phew, for a moment I thought they might hit my peanut butter and treacle sandwiches.
NT and Beyond
A bus driver on his way to evacuate residents got his coach bogged 45km from Daly River on Tuesday. Police were unable to get the coach out resulting in the community using their own hands and their council truck to pull the bus out. The rescued rescuing the rescuer?
Meanwhile in another BIG story, a man mistakenly, when pissed as a fart, went into the toilet labelled G at the Victoria Hotel, thinking it was for blokes. Ho hum.
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