Jacques Chester for Solomon

This will be the order on the ballot paper:

1. Damien Hale (ALP)
2. Trudy Campbell (CEC)
3. Jacques Chester (Dead Set Legends Party  LDP)
4. David Tollner (CLP)
5. Maurice Foley (Independent)
6. Debbie Hudson (Greens)

Some of the highlights included Damien Hale being to only candidate not to attend the draw. I guess he felt that sending a couple of hacks was enough.

The other highlight was Maurice Foley throwing a quite legendary tanty at Nick Calacouras of the NT News. In yesterday’s newspaper there was a nice big photo of Maurice with a “Noonamah” roadsign in the background. Today the paper published a bit saying Foley was under investigation for nicking a roadsign. I figure that this is the cause of the outburst.

If indeed it was stolen property, the irony will be truly delicious because Foley was clutching a book on ethics in the photo. A “how not to”, if you like.

I was also disappointed with my interview. I’ve written before about how the media form narratives quickly and pigeonhole everyone into them. My part in the narrative has become Preferences Man. Policies are no longer what they’re interested in: I could announce a policy to dance nude on Sundays and they’d still only be interested in preferences. In any case I don’t expect to get a run at all between David Tollner, the Greens candidate for Lingiari and Foley’s Folly.