Turkeys sometimes gobble.

Well, I have returned to the deep south after an election campaign filled with midgie-bites, banal funding announcements, crack-pot candidates, crocodiles and the eventual victory of one Natasha Griggs.

I thought I'd share with you the profile the ABC ran just before the election. I interviewed Griggs in her chook shed.

Damien Hale copped a bit of a belting in the seat of Solomon. He held the seat on 197 votes for one term and lost it on Saturday after a 2.7 per cent swing away from Labor. Before the election I caught up with him on the side of the Stuart highway at 7am, where he sat and waved at commuters every morning for the duration of the campaign.

You should really listen to this. Old Mate had to refer to a tattoo on his boob to remember his parliamentary number.

Picture: The front page of the NT News - the only newspaper in the Northern Territory. This was the front page three days out from a federal election...