The last time Territorians booted a government into oblivion, the Greens didn’t even field a candidate in the Darwin electorate of Fannie Bay. Anyone brave enough to predict the leftwing party would win the seat – as is now expected, eight years on – would have been laughed out of the laksa queues at the local Parap markets.
Perhaps 2016 was a simpler time. The Mills-Giles Northern Territory government was destroyed by its own infighting and constant scandal. Labor won 19 of 25 seats by promising not much – simply to not be like the last mob.
