Labor hard man Senator Robert Ray remarked caustically after the massive Keating Government defeat in 1996: "The only thing worse than a change of government, is no change of government".In other words, even for the most die-hard political partisans in Australia, democracy is better served when governments occasionally change hands.And so it was with the recent Northern Territory elections where the Labor Party surprised many by taking power in what had been the proverbial one-party st…
