At this extremely late stage , the responsibility for rectifying the years - long cock up over the gross spelling errors in the Darwin War Memorial has been passed – faster than a ticking brown parcel- to the Darwin City Council .
Long after Little Darwin repeatedly revealed the embarrassing situation , and that recently the Chief Minister had not responded to our questions on the subject , the NT News said an anonymous reader had drawn its attention to the blue. Under a large heading , SPELLING MISTAKES SCAR THE CENOTAPH , the story simply repeated what Little Darwin had stated , but said it was up to the DCC infrastructure general manager , Luccio Cercarelli, to fix the major blunder.
He may have been given the job because his name suggests the possibility that there could be a dash of fine Italian red coursing through his bloodstream, and Mussolini managed to get the impossible done by getting the trains to run on time in Roma .
You would think that chiefs of staff , news editors , chief snoops and others in the media pack would immediately sense that this is a major local and national story to FOLLOW UP THEMSELVES . So far it has been all quiet on the western and media fronts .The News continued on its merry way chasing crocs, bonking animals , imminent cyclones (yippee!) and UFOs . The ABC is still trying to find out how Territorians cope with the loss of a pet goldfish.
Here we have all kinds of people from the Chief Minister down, including the usual opportunistic blowhards, saying that the bombing of Darwin day should be a national holiday , that not many people "down south " are aware of what happened here in 1942 . Up here , in Darwin , all the powers that be did not notice anything amiss at the cenotaph. So February 19, the 70th anniversary of the bombing, is just around the corner. The ceremony will be attended by the Governor–General, the US Ambassador , many other visiting VIPs. Can unfortunate Cercarelli , surely not likely to be called “Lucky”Luccio after having the hot potato dumped in his lap so late in the piece , emulate Il Duce and perform a miracle in granite ?
Will the media ask questions like: Is there a crash campaign to rectify the errors before February 19? If so, what is involved? If not, why ? Could a local stonemason carry out the remedial work? Who did the original stonework? How did this absurd situation occur in the first place ? How come nobody from the RSL, the legion of historians , war authors , government ministers and their spinsters, the military brass-who regularly attended ceremonies at the memorial-did not notice anything wrong in the spelling of two countries and using a singular form of United Nations?
Long after Little Darwin repeatedly revealed the embarrassing situation , and that recently the Chief Minister had not responded to our questions on the subject , the NT News said an anonymous reader had drawn its attention to the blue. Under a large heading , SPELLING MISTAKES SCAR THE CENOTAPH , the story simply repeated what Little Darwin had stated , but said it was up to the DCC infrastructure general manager , Luccio Cercarelli, to fix the major blunder.
He may have been given the job because his name suggests the possibility that there could be a dash of fine Italian red coursing through his bloodstream, and Mussolini managed to get the impossible done by getting the trains to run on time in Roma .
You would think that chiefs of staff , news editors , chief snoops and others in the media pack would immediately sense that this is a major local and national story to FOLLOW UP THEMSELVES . So far it has been all quiet on the western and media fronts .The News continued on its merry way chasing crocs, bonking animals , imminent cyclones (yippee!) and UFOs . The ABC is still trying to find out how Territorians cope with the loss of a pet goldfish.
Here we have all kinds of people from the Chief Minister down, including the usual opportunistic blowhards, saying that the bombing of Darwin day should be a national holiday , that not many people "down south " are aware of what happened here in 1942 . Up here , in Darwin , all the powers that be did not notice anything amiss at the cenotaph. So February 19, the 70th anniversary of the bombing, is just around the corner. The ceremony will be attended by the Governor–General, the US Ambassador , many other visiting VIPs. Can unfortunate Cercarelli , surely not likely to be called “Lucky”Luccio after having the hot potato dumped in his lap so late in the piece , emulate Il Duce and perform a miracle in granite ?
Will the media ask questions like: Is there a crash campaign to rectify the errors before February 19? If so, what is involved? If not, why ? Could a local stonemason carry out the remedial work? Who did the original stonework? How did this absurd situation occur in the first place ? How come nobody from the RSL, the legion of historians , war authors , government ministers and their spinsters, the military brass-who regularly attended ceremonies at the memorial-did not notice anything wrong in the spelling of two countries and using a singular form of United Nations?
