Last weekend, the Country Liberal Party was resoundingly elected to the Northern Territory Assembly for the next four years.

With some authority, The CLP which had eight years ago been voted out of office leaving only two seats, turned out all around and came back to secure 17 seats in the new assembly. Labour has been reduced to probably for St Se.

Along with many other Northern Territorians, I am looking forward to some of the issues we have confronted, being overcome.

When opening the Australian newspaper on Friday, August 30, I saw the advertisement below.

This advertisement creates significant concern for me, because bringing a plethora of people into the Northern Territory from elsewhere to do all we get devising, guiding, and everything else, Will without doubt, defeat the purposes of this new government.

What we do not need coming into the territory to fill key roles are experts with wonderful CVs, great university credentials and limited experience – if any – in the Northern Territory and its unique politics and specific lifestyle.

We have had the past governments of the Northern Territory undone by the practice of bringing in outsiders who do little other than establish the depth and breadth of their own experience before taking off to greener pastures.

Far too often in the past governments and various of its departments,  have been short-sheeted and left floundering in embarrassment by this practice.

We do not need more of the same! We do not need a government with the potential to be undone and reduced to mediocrity because of the infusion of those who,  in practical terms,  know very little about our territory.

But alas! I can already hear the flow of expressions of interest coming upon us like an avalanche.