Crocodile for tea.

Old mate Steve Sunk is a famous top end bush tucker chef - as well as a good sort. While I was in Darwin I headed down to Bagot Community aged care home, where he was cooking up a feed for about three-hundred of Darwin's senior citizens.

Among their number were Des, the gray-nomad who had his mobile home stolen and had to live long grass for six months, and Susie, a central Australian indigenous woman with a story for every occasion, a leopard print caftan and some of the best horn-rimmed sun-glasses I've seen in a long time.

I ambled down and talked election politics over crocodile, squeaking duck, wallaby, roo and sweet native yams. This went to air on ABC Local Radio Darwin on August 19.