Independent view of NT swing

Sunday Territorian on the NT election

The only independent member in the Northern Territory parliament, Gerry Wood, explained on ABC radio why he thought the electorate turned on Labor: “I think there’s a range of answers. Locally I think people could see a government that had very little vision, have not done planning for the future. We’ve got 200,000 people in a fifth of the land mass of the Northern Territory and we have land prices similar to what you have in Sydney and Melbourne and a lot of that land is owned by the government and you have to ask, why is that happening? More