{"id":177,"date":"2025-11-23T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/changeforbetter.party\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:03:47","slug":"staff-writers-spruik-one-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/changeforbetter.party\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Staff Writers spruik One Nation, NT Independent shows their true colours."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Staff writers spruik One Nation: Imitation is the highest form of flattery, apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately we\u2019re not always in control of who copies our ideas, once they are released out into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also pose this question: is it possible that their owner Owen Pyke doesn’t want real Change For Better <\/strong>in the Northern Territory, because once we show everyone how easy it is to have a non-corrupt, functioning Government and a Better<\/strong> society all round then there will be very little left for his newspaper to report on and it risks going out of business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Online news outlet NT Independent\u2019s self-named \u2018Independent Staff\u2019 show their true colours (whoever they are).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is often said that imitation is the highest form of flattery, that it is the mediocre of thought paying their small homage to something creatively superior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change For Better Party<\/strong> would also call it lazy and uninspiring especially so when it is being claimed as your own, without credit given to the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most interesting \u2018articles\u2019, we use the term loosely,  ever published on the NT Independent was some recent shameless advertising for the, in our opinion, openly racist One Nation Party run by the openly racist Pauline Hanson and her gang of anti-Aboriginal, anti-Muslim, pro-white, Christian nationalist right wingers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/ntindependent.com.au\/one-nation-coming-to-northern-territory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes you read that correctly, not an article criticising or addressing any of their policy failures or uncovering corruption or conspiracy in their ranks, as is the self-declared reason for existing from the NT Independent themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assuming it wasn\u2019t paid for somehow, instead, it was a blatant sales pitch.  The kind of supportive headline kind of media release a new Party to the NT could only dream of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wish Change For Better Party<\/strong> had been liked as much as Pauline Hanson\u2019s Party by those \u2018Independent Staff\u2019 – the irony of promoting Pauline ahead of others while calling yourselves \u2018independent\u2019 must surely be lost on whoever those staff are – to get an official shout out on the front page headline news feeds and re-publishing of potentially millions of Internet consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if one commenter is to be believed, those independent staff writers\u2019 pitch just made their first sale.  It achieved its goal, as she announced she was now going to become a paid up member of the new One Nation NT Party:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jane Davies<\/strong> on November 6, 2025 at 6:55 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 25 years supporting ALP I realise these political predators are part of the CLP Uniparty so I\u2019ve joined One Nation. The NTG is a protection racket maintaining a dysfunctional expensive system. Charles Darwin suggests \u2018adapt or die\u2019\u2019, Darwin is too small for the two-party unicameral parliament. Inuit community parliament would serve the community rather than 25 MLA,S who can hide, lie & cost a fortune.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you NT not-Independent Staff, great job guy\/s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 373 words which they published was the exact kind of attention that we here at Change For Better Party<\/strong> have been trying to get for more than 6 months now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Credit where credit is due though, Chris Walsh (we think) has been allowing us to comment on relevant articles and plug our own new Party through links in our comments.  Quite a few of those comments have been more than 1000 words long with a link at the end.  Numerous of those being longer than the article they follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the record: Even though some of our comments have been deleted without any reason given and our requests for clarification have gone unanswered, we still must say thank you for publishing what comments you have already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, back to the official Plug For Pauline\u2019s Party as staff writers spruik One Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is more to this promotion than meets the eye, we believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not long after we set up our little work in progress website in February 2025, we started to populate the NT Independent\u2019s comments sections with the idea of us fighting against what we\u2019d been calling in private for years a \u201c2 party duopoly\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The angel on Jim Jefferies’ left shoulder<\/strong>on March 21, 2025 at 3:51 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stinks stinks stinks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026.deeper into the putrid public service swamp of 2 party duopoly Northern Territory politics.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The angel on Jim Jefferies’ left shoulder<\/strong> on March 26, 2025 at 6:50 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exactly. Deliberate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change For Better is coming.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poisonous 2 party duopoly will finally have decent, honest, aggressive, no longer putting up with this shit, competition for 2028.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later on, after announcing himself as a One Nation Party member and Senate candidate, Darren Nugent then also started using that phrase in his comments too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a free country (in theory at least) so he can use whatever he likes of course:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darren Nugent<\/strong> on August 23, 2025 at 11:32 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good Saturday morning all,
She is, as usual the ALPCLP duopoly, a disgrace to Territorians!
Have a great weekend
Daz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darren Nugent<\/strong> on September 15, 2025 at 9:54 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why, when reading this article does my mind suddenly saturate me with images of a muppet with a long tongue, no morals, with no respect for themselves, happily salivating at the chance to lick arse!
Oh this ALPCLP duopoly must have great parties, all at Territorians expense!
Liar and the duopoly disgust me!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then in the NT Independent-promoted One Nation announcement last week we see, unsurprisingly, their lack of new ideas already, front and centre:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with the goal to \u201cbreak the major party duopoly\u201d in the NT, a One Nation senator said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WA Senator Tyron Whitten was in Darwin last month for the party\u2019s first branch meeting,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entering the NT is part of the plan to break the \u201cmajor party duopoly\u201d in the NT, Mr Whitten said<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here to break the major party duopoly that has consistently failed Territorians.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party is looking to register as an official party in the NT early next year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny to us, is how easy it would be to write a short 373 word article telling readers about our new Change For Better Party<\/strong> in the NT, which publicly states that we are fighting the 2 party duopoly (3 times!) and who is also looking to register as an official party in the NT early next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could almost just substitute the names and keep 50% of your words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This shady shout out is showing us that something deeper is going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It shows all of us that the NT Independent is not actually as \u2018independent\u2019 as it claims to be on its own website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It shows us that One Nation, with nothing new to offer, is copying the right people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reinforces to us that we\u2019re definitely the Change<\/strong> (For Better Party<\/strong>) that the NT needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, we\u2019re the only Party who wants to Change<\/strong> things with some fundamentally new ideas for politics, a totally different plan to run a budget and a Better<\/strong> way to reduce crime while improving communities at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will Change For Better<\/strong> how Government is run and who it is run by.  Out with the old, bye-bye Greg and Alastair and all your family and cronies and the old way of doing things in the NT.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In with the completely new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe Territory businessman and NT Independent owner Mr Owen Pike doesn\u2019t want Change, For Better<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe he likes the status quo, keeping things just the way they are?  Which is exactly what you\u2019ll get if you keep assisting One Nation by the way, Owen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe when we Change<\/strong> things For Better<\/strong> his newspaper will have very little left to report on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And maybe that\u2019s why Pauline\u2019s Party gets Promoted while we are demoted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFB<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For clarity and the public record, here is the latest deleted comment so that anyone reading this can compare it to the One Nation advertising \u2018article\u2019 to see where NT Independent\u2019s priorities might lie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/ntindependent.com.au\/the-finocchiaro-fyles-the-clp-is-the-new-alp-in-the-northern-territory-and-we-are-all-losing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018There\u2019s no sense arguing anymore if the previous Labor government was worse than the current Finocchiaro CLP Government\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We couldn\u2019t agree more which is why Change For Better Party has been consistently calling out this \u2018CLP is ALP is CLP is ALP\u2019 in these comment pages for the last 12 months:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are journalists ignoring us already?<\/a><\/blockquote>