A woman lunged at Ms Fyles and pushed a cream-covered pancake into her face. Source: no.govcorp.voice on TikTok
A 56-year-old woman has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly shoving a pancake covered in cream into Northern Territory chief minister Natasha Fyles’s face.
The incident occurred at the Nightcliff Markets on Sunday at around 11:40am.
An eyewitness told the ABC that Fyles was walking outside Bendigo bank, which was celebrating its 15th anniversary, when the attack happened.
The witness said that the perpetrator pushed a cream-covered pancake into Fyles’s face, leaving her ‘visibly shaken’ before allegedly verbally abusing her.
Footage of the incident was posted on Tik Tok and shows Fyles smiling at the woman before cowering as the woman lunges at her, smearing a pancake on a white paper plate into her face, then pushing her.
Kon Vatskalis, Darwin’s Lord Mayor, was also at the bank’s anniversary event, but left before the attack happened.
“I just saw the very confronting video and I think this is disgusting,” Mr Vatskalis said.
“I have never seen anything like that in Darwin in the 30 years I’ve been here.”
The Nightcliff Markets take place in the same area as Fyles’s electorate office, which is usually open on Sundays.
This incident follows another incident back in May in Central Australia, when Fyles was allegedly chased and ‘harassed’ by anti-fracking protestors while competing in a run.
The ‘harassment’ by fracking protestors was likely due to Fyles’s decision to give the go ahead to a gas fracking project in the NT, despite hundreds of scientists urging against it.
