WITH the paint covering Country Liberal Party colours on the now-independent Kezia Purick’s electorate office still drying, our elected representatives on the fifth floor have well and truly imbibed the Kool-Aid if they believe there is anything remotely usual about the business of politics in the Northern Territory.
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After a year that began with the most embarrassing attempt at a leadership coup of all time, and has included enough desertions to render it a minority, the government that has rewritten the definition of nepotism says it is business as usual and that Territorians have no cause for panic.
What is usual about cronyism, endless scandals and a total disregard for the people who elected you to power?
Disconcertingly, things are not much better in the Territory Labor camp, which is boasting a dusty shelf where its policies should be.
There are already whispers about Michael Gunner’s fit as a leader, and the party appears to be content with taking a we-haven’t-screwed-up-as-badly-as-the-other-guys approach to winning over voters.
Long-suffering Territorians deserve much better, but they are unlikely to get an upgrade in the next political term.
The dysfunctional circus will continue its plummet into utter absurdity as August 2016 draws closer and there are only two certainties to the Territory’s political landscape at this stage of the game.
The first is that Adam Giles will not be chief minister 13 months from now.
The second is that there are more than a few people from both sides of the political fence who are already trying to decide where their furniture will fit in his office once the stench of the current government’s leadership has been removed from the carpet.
