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NT News Editor Matt Williams says the reaction to his paper's the eight-page special where readers could get “limited edition one-ply toilet newspaper sheets" has been "staggering. As supermarkets across Australia run low on toilet paper due to a buying spree brought on by panic over the coronavirus, the NT News capitalised on the opportunity to point out the comedic element within this situation.
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NT News brings out ‘bizzarre’ limited-edition toilet paper lift-out | Sky News Australia6PR’s Oliver Peterson says the “toilet paper run is just odd, it’s so bizarre” as the NT News prints an “eight-page special lift-out” where readers can get “limited edition one-ply toilet newspaper sheets”.\n\nAtop the NT News’ front page for Thursday is an advertisement for a limited-edition lift-out which can be used as toilet paper titled “run out of loo paper?” which comes as supermarkets across the country face a run on toilet paper.\n\nMr Peterson told Sky News host Peter Gleeson people just need to “step back and relax and really listen to our health authorities; the message could not be clearer”.\n Adult nappies will not be very popular It JoshFrydenberg and ScottMorrisonMP last stimulus package to boost the economy. Because the economy in going down the toilet why not exploit this. You all know the NT News is well known for taking the absolute piss out of any situation...right?
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Authorities confirm first case of coronavirus in NT general public | Sky News AustraliaAuthorities have confirmed the first case of coronavirus among the general public in the Northern Territory. \n\nA 52-year-old who flew from Sydney to Darwin on Wednesday has tested positive to the coronavirus and is being treated in isolation at the Royal Darwin Hospital. \n\nAuthorities fear the virus could have “devastating effects” if it makes its way to the country’s most remote communities. \n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 passengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will get to go home this morning after spending 14 days in quarantine in Darwin. \n\nThere were eight passengers diagnosed with COVID-19, all of whom were flown interstate for treatment including James Kwan who died from the virus in Perth on Sunday. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia This tourist from NSW decided to take themselves shopping at a Darwin Woolies first, what an asshole.
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Diamond Princess passengers released from NT quarantine | Sky News AustraliaPassengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have been released from quarantine in Howard Springs on the outskirts of Darwin.\n\nSome were so keen to leave the quarantine centre they called a taxi at 1:30am, the official time their 14 days of quarantine ended, to head to the Darwin casino.\n\nOthers boarded buses and travelled to Darwin airport where they were flown to their respective home states. \n\nA 52-year-old man became the first case in the Northern Territory when he tested positive for the virus this week. \n\nThe man was on a Qantas flight from Sydney to Darwin on Tuesday and he began to feel unwell after checking into his hotel. \n\nThe man is being treated in isolation at the Royal Darwin Hospital.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n
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Australia needs 'fewer councils and more states' | Sky News AustraliaAs a resident from Logan City Council in Queensland said the administrator was doing a better job than an elected council, Sky News host James Morrow says he’d vote for “fewer councils … and more states”.\n\nThe Logan City council was dismissed in May 2019 after the Mayor and seven councilors were sacked over integrity charges while an administrator has been in place since.\n\nPosed with the question of elected officials or bureaucrats running councils, the Institute of Public Affairs’ Gideon Rozner said “faceless bureaucrats are already running local councils”.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n
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Panicked shoppers strip toilet paper from supermarket shelves | Sky News AustraliaPanicked shoppers are ignoring calls for calm as they strip toilet paper and other necessities from supermarket shelves. \n\nThe federal government called for calm, insisting there was no need for anyone to stock up on household items amid the coronavirus outbreak. \n\nThe government said anyone who was required to self-isolate over COVID-19 fears would have supplies like toilet paper delivered to their home. \n\nMeanwhile, a truck carrying the commodity burst into flames about 10pm on Wednesday night in Brisbane. \n\nThe truck driver escaped without injury but left a trail of burning toilet paper in his wake. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia ridiculous ScottMorrisonMP show some bloody LEADERSHIP!!! Guarantee surgical masks for Dentists!!!!!!! imbeciles
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Australia is ‘paying the price’ for destroying agriculture: Katter | Sky News AustraliaAustralia’s “brainless” obsession with the free market has left consumers vulnerable to a global coronavirus-sparked slowdown according to Independent MP Bob Katter.\n\nAustralia's Department of Treasury has warned COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, could wipe $34 billion from the economy this year.\n\nThe virus outbreak has also caused severe shortages of toilet paper and baby formula as nervous consumers stock up.\n\nMr Katter told Sky News Australia is “paying the price” for outsourcing much of its manufacturing sector to China, which is the epicentre of the coronavirus.\n\n“We are now in a situation where most of our fruit and vegetables come from overseas, we are net importer of fruit and vegetables,” he said.\n\n“Coronavirus has just brought out the serious implications of this.”\n\nImage: News Corp Is that Bob Tweeting from hos underground bunker with his prepper rations of 500 rolls of bog paper?
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