Take a glance at our week in words item and you’ll see that the Northern Territory was blinking in the glare of the media spotlight this week. Maybe the keywords are skewed given that we take the transcripts from the Sydney 7.45am ABC News Bulletin from Monday to Friday (not the airwaves of Neil Mitchell or The Parrot) but 400 pages of news and current events squished into this tag cloud give a pretty clear indication that indigenous issues, and what the PM has dubbed a National Emergency, dominate the week in 100 words:

aboriginal (17) abuse (19) action (8) against (19) airport (12) announced (8) being (24) believe (8) best (9) blair (11) brown (11) bulker (8) canberra (9) case (8) centre (9) change (13) charged (10) chief (9) child (13) children (21) coast (13) communities (26) concerns (8) cup (10) deal (8) emergency (8) expected (9) five (12) four (9) gippsland (8) groups (18) head (8) health (14) house (18) indigenous (19) industry (11) jane (9) john (12) leader (11) local (8) major (10) man (13) match (11) meet (15) minutes (9) morning (9) mp (9) mr (25) national (9) night (9) north (15) northern (21) officers (9) officials (16) opposition (9) park (10) parliament (9) party (12) pasha (8) people (30) peter (12) plan (15) players (10) police (36) prepared (10) president (11) protect (8) public (8) rafael (9) record (10) residents (9) response (10) river (9) school (13) second (14) security (11) services (10) sets (10) sports (9) state (29) support (13) talks (9) team (22) territory (21) today (31) tony (11) top (9) union (9) voted (8) waiting (9) wants (9) washington (11) water (22) week (9) win (13) work (16) world (16) year (28) yesterday (11) zealand (9) created at TagCrowd.com

19.5 billion: Litres of water flowing into Melbourne’s dams in a 24-hour period from June 27-28.

1.1: Percentage rise in Victoria’s storage levels from 28.6% to 29.7% during same period.

300: Millimetres of rain falling in the same period on Gippsland’s high country.

11: In metres, the expected peak level of the Avon river in Gippsland.

40,000: Weight in tonnes of stranded cargo ship the Pasha Bulker.

222: Number of games Neale Daniher had coached AFL club Melbourne prior to its round 13 game against Essendon. 

3.25: Dollars to each $1 Sportbet paid out an a $2,000 bet on Neale Daniher losing his job before the end of the season.

32: Percentage of Democratic voters who would switch their votes to Al Gore if he were running for president in 2008.

5: Percentage of initial downturn in pub profits in Ireland following that country’s implementation of smoking bans in pubs.

1377: Year in which the up-for-sale Bran Castle, inspiration behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula, was originally constructed.

195: Australian tennis player Wayne Arthur’s current world ranking.

51: Number of British Prime Minsters holding the office before current PM Gordon Brown.

36: For every unit increase in body mass index for a woman at age 70, the percentage increase on likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

1.3 million: Dollars spent on Tony Mokbel manhunt.