Elections; not state, not federal — but territory — are in the air.

The NT votes late next month, followed by the ACT in October.

Already in Canberra election posters promising “We’ll plant One Million Trees” under the picture of the local Liberal Sikh candidate are springing up like the early blossom.

And, even more telling, the hapless ACT Transport Minister Chris Steele has revised – for about the third time in as many years-  transport timetables (unlike Mussolini, it can’t be said for Steele that he made anything run on time).