Darwin's most respected newspaper-The Cullen Bay Cock Up-is now printed on environmentally friendly elephant dung paper . And its award winning editor, Argus Tuft,111, today challenged the Northern Territory News to produce its paper on some other kind of animal dung."It could try crocodile excreta , " suggested Tuft, pointing out that there is a lot of it in Darwin media circles.
Cullen Bay Cock Up reporting staff is shown above armed with long- handled shovels collecting dung from ceremonial elephants in Sri Lanka . The steaming dung was shipped to Darwin , mixed with the local fish and chips wrapper and turned into green newsprint in a secret process . Under intense questioning from Little Darwin , Tuft finally showed us the diagram , below, which illustrates how the high quality paper is produced with the help of intelligent elephants who never forget how to sit on reinforced toilets . Getting an elephant to sit on a dunny is the really hard part , according to Tuft who said being trampled by a constipated jumbo is worse than being bowled over in Mitchell Street on a Saturday night .
