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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee

Who will win the NT election? With a volatile and transient electorate, everything is up for grabs

NT chief minister Eva Lawler, left, and NT Country Liberal party leader Lia Finocchiaro.
NT chief minister Eva Lawler, left, and NT Country Liberal party leader Lia Finocchiaro. Photograph: Pema Tamang Pakhrin/AAP

Burt the psychic crocodile doesn’t have a good track record picking Northern Territory elections. He got it badly wrong in 2016 and 2020. But in fairness, he’s not the only one who struggles to digest the eccentricities of “frontier” politics.

“Who’ll win the NT election? I’ve got no fucking idea,” writes Bob Gosford, who has been posting dispatches about the Territory for almost two decades in his blog The Northern Myth.

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