The Northern Territory has a general election of the Legislative Assembly on August 24. In the territory, we have mandated for you terms of government.

The Northern Territory government goes into Caretaker mode tomorrow 1 August – coinciding with the Universal Horses birthday – with pre-polling opening on 12 August.

There is a festival, a carnival, of extravagant postings and placings of core flutes of people seeking election all around Darwin and Palmerston.

Some electorates are saturated with the likenesses of people seeking election. In the electorate of Wanguri, One hopeful has at least 600 call flute likenesses plastered on fences and walls and roadsides and everywhere else. Many have less signage but it’s still well and truly overdone.

I fantasise that should these posters come to life, Darwin’s population would increase by 50,000 people.