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Ally Sinclair at the Darwin Festival’s Talon Salon event, where customers get their nailsdone and hear stories of life in Vietnamese-run nail salons Picture: ELISE DERWIN

Nail tales add polishBy AMY SPEAR

IT’S a relaxing pedicure —but not as you know it.

Though your feet, orhands if you choose, will bepampered and painted,you’ll also experience anaudio story, taking you intothe world of Vietnamese-runnail salons in Australia.

The colour you choose de-termines the story you hear,

and could cover ideas of mi-gration, beauty or culture.

Blue will tell the story ofMinh, a mother-in-law of anail salon owner who runs amotel in Fannie Bay.

Red is for ‘‘husbands’’,about men in and around anail salon.

It’s all part of ‘‘TalonSalon’’ created by artist Mi-chele Lee and in Darwin aspart of the Darwin Festival.

Ally Sinclair, of FannieBay, choose blue andbrought lunch.

‘‘Lunch, show and a pedi-cure — it doesn’t get betterthan that,’’ she said.

Salon host Kyle Walmsleydescribed the experience ofbeing in the story and hear-ing it as ‘‘cool’’.

Talon Salon is at Nail Lovers

until August 18, then at Beauti-

ful Nails fromAugust 21-25.

MateturnsoverblazeBy SARAH CRAWFORD

ONE of the men involved inthe grisly death of Paul JohnStamp — who was allegedlyburnt alive because he dranksomeone else’s beer — willgive evidence at his co-accused’s murder trial.

Gregory John Channing’slawyer Suzan Cox QC told theNT Supreme Court yesterdaythat he had put himself indanger in jail and had to beplaced in protection Block Bbecause he had decided to co-operate with police.

‘‘That is the price of whatin prison is described as be-ing a ‘dog’,’’ she said.

Mr Channing, 42, pleadedguilty to bashing and lockingMr Stamp, 47, in the boot of acar before friend Gary St-ewart Miles allegedly set fireto it in the early hours ofSeptember 19 last year.

It is alleged Mr Stamp wasattacked because he drankfour cans of beer belongingto his flatmate Mr Miles.

Ms Cox said Mr Channingwas ‘‘horrified’’ by what hap-pened to Mr Stamp.

‘‘It was an argument over

beer that got completely outof control,’’ she said.

Crown Prosecutor Paul Us-her said Mr Miles camehome to his residence in TheGardens with Mr Channinglate at night and discoveredthe four beers were gone.

The pair allegedly bashedthe sleeping Mr Stamp andlocked him in the boot of MrChanning’s car. Mr Ushersaid they planned to drivehim to a bush area and leavehim there but ran out of petrolon Bombing Rd, Winnellie.

After buying fuel from anearby service station, MrMiles allegedly poured petrolover the car and set it alight.

‘‘It exploded into a raginginferno, ‘‘ Mr Usher said.

Ms Cox said Mr Channingdid not know Mr Miles wasgoing to set the car on fire.He was burnt on the face,arms, hands and stomachand spent days in hospital

Ms Cox said he was‘‘deeply ashamed and pro-foundly regretful’’.

Mr Channing’s case was ad-journed to next week. MrMiles is to stand trial for MrStamp’s murder in December.

Coke inoutsizeinvoiceclaimBy AMY SPEAR

AN OVERSIZED mock in-voice for $6 million waspresented to Coca-ColaAmatil yesterday .

The Boomerang Alliancesaid the invoice representedtaxpayer money the North-ern Territory Governmentspent to prop up the cash-for-containers scheme sincea Federal Court decisionin February.

Coca-Cola, Lion Nathanand Schweppes challengedthe NT Container DepositLegislation and won.

This week, the schemecame back into place afterthe NT was granted exemp-tion from the Common-wealth’s Mutual Recog-nition Act.

Jeff Angel, convenor ofthe Boomerang Alliance,said they did it because ifthe Government had notsupported the scheme,about 18 million bottles andcans would have been land-filled or littered.

He said there were twopaddy wagons waiting whenthey arrived, but the com-pany didn’t obstruct activity.

‘‘They accepted our in-voice. I can only hope in ac-cepting it, they’re going topay up,’’ he said.

Of the Alliance’s activity,NT Minister for Environ-ment Peter Chandler said‘‘bloody good on them’’.

‘‘I think what the Boomer-ang Alliance are doing now. . . it just shows the beverageindustry for what they are.’’

Minister Chandler andMr Angel supported makingthe scheme more efficient.

A Coca-Cola Amatil spo-kesperson said they werepleased that Boomerang hadfinally acknowledged howexpensive the NT depositscheme had been to estab-lish and run.

‘‘The scheme is inefficientand, regardless of whatchanges the Governmentmay make, will continue tocost NT consumers,’’ thespokesperson said.