After a bizarre episode at a Cullen Bay eatery today , involving a female media member of a Henderson government minister and another person pretending to talk into his mobile phone , it is clear that MLA Alison Anderson should be near the top of the list of the most powerful in the NT News 120 movers and shakers . By simply sipping coffee , Ms Anderson causes strange things to happen in government and media circles. Readers will remember the recent Ducks Nuts affair when an NT News team on the hard news coffee beat descended on Alison , Australian reporter Nicolas Rothwell and North Queensland Register rural rep, Peter Murphy .
Ms Anderson was having lunch at the Boatshed with a Darwin couple when it became apparent that the media woman and companion were paying very close attention to them. Those two left, and soon after a bod arrived and made a bee-line towards Ms Anderson and her friends, holding out a mobile as if conducting a conversation . It is pure speculation , but it is thought the media woman alerted the annoying fellow about Ms Anderson’s presence in the nautical noshery.
The phone was held so far from his ear it became apparent he was trying to take a photo of the trio at the table . He was so obvious , like a would–be member of the paparazzi or a redundant member of the KGB , that they got up and began to move to a car. The bod , holding his camera at stomach height, moved in closer. Unbeknown to the annoying snapper , the male in the group has long been involved with martial arts and, despite wonky joints, could, if he so wished, have done something nasty to the phone and its owner. Instead, like a gentleman, he protectively blocked his view of Ms Anderson, and then drove the wrong way out of the car park to further confuse the peeping photographer.
Ms Anderson was having lunch at the Boatshed with a Darwin couple when it became apparent that the media woman and companion were paying very close attention to them. Those two left, and soon after a bod arrived and made a bee-line towards Ms Anderson and her friends, holding out a mobile as if conducting a conversation . It is pure speculation , but it is thought the media woman alerted the annoying fellow about Ms Anderson’s presence in the nautical noshery.
The phone was held so far from his ear it became apparent he was trying to take a photo of the trio at the table . He was so obvious , like a would–be member of the paparazzi or a redundant member of the KGB , that they got up and began to move to a car. The bod , holding his camera at stomach height, moved in closer. Unbeknown to the annoying snapper , the male in the group has long been involved with martial arts and, despite wonky joints, could, if he so wished, have done something nasty to the phone and its owner. Instead, like a gentleman, he protectively blocked his view of Ms Anderson, and then drove the wrong way out of the car park to further confuse the peeping photographer.
Earlier in the day, Health /Children and Families/ Resources (etceteras) Minister , Kon Vatskalis , was seen ambling through the Smith Street Mall with a plastic bag ; he turned down an arcade , ordered a Chinese meal , and sat there, alone, waiting for his spring rolls, and was eventually joined by two women . Unless a nearby rubber plant was Agent 96 with a Box Brownie no annoying snaps were taken by a bumbling and annoying jerk to cause dyspepsia or indigestion .
