PROMINENT TERRITORY JOURNALIST ILL

Longtime Darwin journalist,Peter Murphy, is reported to be receiving palliative care in a Victorian hospital. Peter worked on the NT News and then had a long association with Chief Minister Paul Everingham. Pete asked this writer if he should take up the post as Everingham's media man . I advised in the affirmative, and said that with self -government in the offing and eventual statehood, working for "Porky", a doer and an interesting operator, there would never be a dull moment, which proved correct.