There are warning signs that ingredients for Molotov Cocktails are being stored in Darwin in readiness for the forthcoming NT elections. This alarming statement is based on a strange exchange during the current sitting of the Legislative Assembly between the Member for Port Darwin , John Elferink, and the Leader of Government Business , Dr Chris Burns , who is retiring this year to become a Volga boatman . The Elf and Toothy Chris were firing verbal shots at each other over cognate Bills, introduced after 12 years , to protect Territorians when building companies collapse , which unexpectedly raised visions of the 1917 Russian Revolution .
Inclined to make unusual historical allusions and comparisons from time to time , Elferink raised the issue of the cost of the legislation on the price of building a house . Continuing , he made an unclear statement that he was not suggesting the Government is motivated by “ some villainous predisposition” oriented to the playing of The Internationale every time they pass legislation . What followed became confusing , but entertaining . Comrade Burns seemed to say he knew who the prominent Communists were on his side, the equivalent of Engels and Lenin . Elferink nominated himself as the Karl Marx of Port Darwin.
Elferink : I have a fridge at home called Engels ..... Wow ! What a story – and no political reporter in town picked it up , except the ever alert, subversive Little Darwin . There is a great photo story here .The Elf posing with his fridge and an inventory of its contents... German sausage , litres of vodka , schnapps ? How come a Darwin fridge came to be named after the German Socialist Friedrich Engels , a close drinking buddy and patron of Karl Marx ? Marx , it seems, upset his father when he was a teenage law student at Bonn University and joined the Trier Tavern Club , a drinking society . Philosopher Engels wrote CONDITIONS OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND and gave the royalties to Karl , he also slipped him a quid or five when Marx was experiencing tough times . He also made many wise sayings , such as : An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory and Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal .
It became evident throughout the Legislative Assembly debate that the ALP and the CLP were manoeuvring for a bloody election similar to those that took place around the battleship Potemkin and in the Kremlin square. Dr Burns gave a Rasputin -like blessing to the recently announced ALP candidate who will stand against The Elf in Port Darwin - songwriter , lead singer and former Yothu Yindi manager , Alan James , whose election would make him the Territory equivalent of Federal minister Peter Garrett , but with much more hair.
The Member for Fong Lim, Dave Tollner , fired off a few rounds at members opposite from his CLP answer to the Katyusha rocket launcher , also known as a Stalin organ , at Dr Burns and others , some of which he withdrew on demand of Madam Speaker who joined in the dangerous game of Russian roulette , ordering two members into the Siberian sin bin . UPCOMING : Another Darwin election involving bomb throwing Russkies and a newspaper editor .
