Labor lost on a crusade for fairness - what does that say about us?

NT went Labour because the Country Liberal Party has a single disastrous term, in which they:

  1. Bought the election by giving cash "grants" to residents of bush communities for "home improvement", using the federal money for the Housing For Health project to win seats

  2. Sold the port to China

  3. Utterly bungled the construction of a second major hospital for Darwin, on purpose so they could hand Labour a poisoned chalice

  4. Sold the State Insurance company (TIO), the only source of affordable cyclone and flood insurance to an international company

  5. Spent the entire term giving the minister for mines and energy "emergency powers", then used them two weeks before the state election to grant hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mining leases without the approval of the legislative assembly

Generally everything the Liberal party is trying to do in QLD, but without pretence, subtltly or restraint.

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