QandA was live from Darwin last night.  As a Territorian myself these days I was rather interested in the program.  It was okay although I don’t think they really got into enough depth on the really important topics and perhaps more depth than necessary on some of the less important issues.

Rosalie Kunoth Monks was extraordinary.  Hearing her comment on how it felt to have the government people just roll into town in their luxury 4WD and just land them with intervention literally over night was powerful.  I also thought the guy from the Cattleman’s Association was interesting, even if I didn’t agree with him on most things and Stuart Blanch from the NT Environment Centre was very knowledgable and explained things well.  As usual the politicians were irritating.  David Tollner was particularly infuriating with his constant trying to bait the Chief Minister into a debate and I don’t think he thought about anything he said before it came out of his mouth.  My favourite line was from Tony when he referred to his wife as girl Tony just said something like, “I actually call her a woman”.

I was pleased to see a lot of the Twitter comments saying how good it was to actually hear about what goes on for people in the Territory.  Issues such as the Intervention get talked about a lot without any imput from those really affected by it.