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21 May 2000
Sunday Territorian headlines
'Scorcher - V8 records smashed'
'Exciting V8 Supercar racing is expected at Hidden Valley today after lap records were smashed during qualifying rounds of the Shell Championship Series.' After yesterday's headline one could have been forgiven for thinking that Ford might have pulled out. But today we are reassured that Ford will be around next year. Damn I wish I'd had that bet now.
'Patient runs amok in RDH'
'A Royal Darwin Hospital patient smashed four windows with a fire extinguisher and squirted patients and staff with chemicals from the equipment, witnesses claimed yesterday'. Surely the food couldn't have been that bad. Fortunately it was just an adverse reaction to some medication.
'Alice civic centre shock'
'Alice Springs may lose out on a planned $12.5 million civic centre'. Instead they will get an unplanned one? No, the Council is going to drop the idea, with the NT Government not prepared to pay for it. Local Government Minister Loraine Braham said the Government believed council should direct money into more 'important matters'. Tell me does the NT Government fund Local Government at all?
'Alice drug use hits high'
Poor Alice, once seen through the looking glass, seems to be in real strife. 'More than 30 000 syringes will have been handed out to drug users in Alice Springs by the end of this financial year - a rise of 12 000 on last year's figures.' A community worker was quoted as saying the high syringe-use figures reflected a lack of detoxification services in Alice Springs. No services existed for under 18s or people who had not been "clean" for 24 hours because they could not be accepted by the detox centre at the Drug and Alcohol Services Association. Now with all the money saved by not building the Civic Centre…..
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