Police say 56-year-old charged over the alleged assault on Natasha Fyles at a Darwin market

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A woman has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly pushing a cream-covered crepe into the face of the Northern Territory chief minister, Natasha Fyles.

Footage shared by Nine News on social media showed a woman rushing towards Fyles as she left a bank, and allegedly shoving what was described as a whipped-cream crepe into her face on Sunday morning.