Business

STATE OF OUR INNOVATION NATION: 2022 AND BEYOND

The Northern Territory provides investors and international innovators one of the most commercially exciting jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region. In the past six years, the Northern Territory has quietly developed the foundations of a vibrant innovation ecosystem. A highlights reel would show you companies such as SPEE3D creating new...

Business

SITZLER SHARES SUCCESS

Award-winning construction company Sitzler has again demonstrated its key role in the economy of Northern Australia by awarding more than $100 million worth of work packages to subcontractors in the past four months. Most of the work went to local businesses. General Manager Anthony Carbone says Sitzler awards subcontracts to Northern...

NEC Business

NEC SHARES ITS GOOD FORTUNE

The company that has again been awarded the Northern Territory Government’s major IT services contract has an unmatched reputation for world-class work.  But there is much more to NEC than that – it is also constantly proving itself to be an excellent corporate citizen by using a suite of NT-based subcontractors and training...

RAPIDCLEAN NT Business

RAPIDCLEAN GROWS WITH THE TERRITORY

An Aboriginal-owned company is so confident of its future and the Territory’s economic prospects that it has built a fit-for-purpose warehouse, office and showroom in Darwin’s leading business hub.  RapidClean NT, which is wholly owned by Ironbark Aboriginal Corporation, will soon move from rented premises in Winnellie to the new 1200...

BTC CONSTRUCTIONS Business

BTC BUILT A REPUTATION ON QUALITY BUILDING

Although based in Darwin, BTC Constructions’ work spreads far and wide around the Territory and across Northern Australia.  “Our professional teams have worked in remote communities, mine sites, defence bases. Plus, on city multi-storey buildings, hotel and office refurbishments, residential builds and renovations, public housing and...

JL PROPERTY NT Business

JIMMY HITS RIGHT NOTE IN WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Many business people don’t make the time to nurture interests outside of work.  They are too busy building their companies.  Not Jimmy Lay.  He has worked ferociously hard all his life to provide for his family – but has found time for outside interests.  Jimmy, who is one of the best-known and most...

ICN Business

MATCHMAKING MADE EASY

The agency that acts as “matchmaker” between Northern Territory business and lucrative contracts on major and medium-sized projects is working smarter and faster – statistic by statistic.  Industry Capability Network NT is using in-depth data analysis to not only evaluate its own performance but to make effective use of a vast bank...

INPEX Business

ASHLEY TAKES INPEX PATHWAY TO SUCCESS

Ashley Stephensen worked as a lab technician for more than a decade in the mining industry before securing a laboratory analyst position with INPEX in July 2021 as part of the Solid Pathways Program.  Ashley is born and bred in Darwin and his family are Woolwonga people from the Frances Creek area near Pine Creek.  He started his...

DITT Business

BOOST FOR EXPORTERS

Northern Territory businesses punch well above their weight in the highly-competitive export trade.  And a new grant program aims to help keep it that way.  The Northern Territory Government released the Global Trade Scheme program to help Territory businesses establish or expand their exporting capabilities.  The program...

Darwin Convention Centre Business

FUTURE BRIGHT FOR CONVENTION CENTRE

Darwin Convention Centre is bouncing back from the covid pandemic with more energy than ever.  A national medical conference was held at the oyster shell-shaped centre in May and the first international conference in two years is scheduled for September.  At least four more international events will be held next...

GTNT Business

SPARKY SHINING LIGHT AT GTNT GROUP AWARDS

Apprentice electrician Mary Coulter is ecstatic about winning one of the Northern Territory’s most prestigious awards.  She was named Apprentice of the Year at the GTNT Group awards ceremony at Darwin’s Mindil Beach Casino Resort.  Mary, who is an electrical maintenance technician at the South32 manganese mine on Groote...

Wren Christou Business

WREN CHRISTOU: THEIR SUCCESS IS OUR SUCCESS

Northern Territory accountants Amanda Wren and Demetrios Christou know that there’s one thing business people dislike above all others: surprises. Particularly if the “surprise” is a bigger-than-expected tax bill. So Darwin-based accounting firm Wren Christou ensures clients know in good time what to expect in tax and how they are...