Strange that it took reporter Lex Hall in The Weekend Australian to name the Darwin quads – three real estate agents and a property investor - who had been allowed to make anonymous , damaging claims in the NT News about the value of apartments in the 23-storey , $30million Skytower project in the Darwin CBD.
The Australian even ran three of the foursome’s photos. Now that the local media knows the names of the four , thanks to a southern newspaper , they can fearlessly go forth and ask obvious follow up questions and do a bit of REAL digging around in the interests of balanced and fair reporting.
Even though the Weekend Australian revealed the names , it allowed a “disgruntled buyer” to anonymously make the following cheap shot about Skytower developer , Nik Rigas , a fireman , who has saved the lives of people , “He’s trying to go from being a cowboy fireman to Donald Trump in one development” . Any fair minded person would regard this as an offensive and paltry remark. If the person responsible for this snide comment has any intestinal fortitude and other than bone between the ears, then that person should bravely own up publicly as its author. Could it be that the person who made this inane crack was himself rejected when he applied for a job with the fire service?
The Australian even ran three of the foursome’s photos. Now that the local media knows the names of the four , thanks to a southern newspaper , they can fearlessly go forth and ask obvious follow up questions and do a bit of REAL digging around in the interests of balanced and fair reporting.
Even though the Weekend Australian revealed the names , it allowed a “disgruntled buyer” to anonymously make the following cheap shot about Skytower developer , Nik Rigas , a fireman , who has saved the lives of people , “He’s trying to go from being a cowboy fireman to Donald Trump in one development” . Any fair minded person would regard this as an offensive and paltry remark. If the person responsible for this snide comment has any intestinal fortitude and other than bone between the ears, then that person should bravely own up publicly as its author. Could it be that the person who made this inane crack was himself rejected when he applied for a job with the fire service?
Rather than be ridiculed by an anonymous person, Rigas should be the subject of a praiseworthy feature as over the years he has quietly and efficiently been abuilding in various parts of Darwin. There are other fascinating twists to this story which are bound to come to light now that some of the fog has been lifted from about the tower .
