Sea Farms Business

$1.5BN SEA DRAGON VISION COMES TRUE

Project Sea Dragon expects to produce its first harvest of premium black tiger prawns by late 2023. The first stage of the massive sustainable aquaculture business will cost $281 million and export 6000 tonnes of prawns in the first year of operation. This staged project will see up to 10,000 hectares of prawn ponds in production and...

Jaytex Constructions Business

JAYTEX SURGES AHEAD

It is building a 1500 square metre custom-designed office and warehouse for Australia’s leading energy infrastructure company APA. The project is seen as a demonstration of faith in the Territory’s economic prospects by a world-class business. Jaytex, which employs 40 Territorians directly and uses a large number of local...

Darwin Innovation Hub Business

THE TERRITORY: BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD TO ‘WORK FROM ANYWHERE’

The Territory has traditionally been focussed on tourism and agriculture, but increasingly, there is a small and exciting high-technology sector. The world has discovered WFA – working from anywhere. No longer do businesses need to be run from big cities. Instead, employees are going to pick a lifestyle and climate that suits them. This...

Inpex Business

EXPANSION ON HORIZON FOR FAMILY BUSINESS

Fast forward 30 years and Max has not only taken over the reins of his father’s family owned and operated company, Winnellie Hydraulics, he is taking it to a national and global level. Max’s parents Richard and Carol arrived in Darwin with $30 in their pockets looking for work to earn enough money to continue their travels around...

Economic Commissioners Business

TRIO TO SHOW OFF NT TO THE WORLD

Andrew Cowan is the Investment Commissioner, Jason Schoolmeester the Major Projects Commissioner and Louise McCormick the acting Infrastructure Commissioner. They know that all three roles are intertwined – one necessary to the other – and plan to work closely together. “We are already working as a united team,” says Mr...

Chamber of Commerce Business

CHAMBER HELPS GROW OUR OWN

The Chamber of Commerce selected three young business leaders, Laura Finch, Jordan Tuit and Tim Woolfe, to become Intern Non-Executive Directors as part of a developmental and forward-facing plan. Led by the mission of supporting the Territory into a brighter future, the Chamber embarked on a strategic one-year initiative that saw the creation of...

CHINA ESSAY Business

CHINA LEADS BLOCK CHAIN ECONOMY

How important is this for business exporting to China? By way of introduction to this topic at a conference, I started my presentation with two observations. First, I observed that among all the bottles of water consumed during the day there was one bottle filled with substituted water. It was, I assured the audience, clean river water taken...

CERESTAG Business

MONITORING ANIMALS: ANYWHERE, ANYTIME

Ceres Tag tracks cattle by satellite without any need for additional infrastructure, maintenance, subscription or battery replacements. No wonder it was placed No 1 in AgJournal’s list of 10 Biggest Ag Changes in the Next Decade. The tags are being sold online worldwide. Ceres Tag was developed by husband-and-wife team Melita and...

HOSPITALITY NT Business

PASSION AND LOCAL PRODUCE A WINNING RECIPE

Held on the lawns of Mindil Beach Casino and Resort on 19 May, the annual awards saw 500 hospitality operators, suppliers and supporters gather to celebrate excellence in the Territory’s hospitality industry. In a highlight of the night, the judges named Hoang Ton Co from Darwin Trailer Boat Club and Ryan Hamilton from Phat Mango joint...

MASTER BUILDERS Business

Adapt to Succeed

This time last year we were talking about the emerging pandemic and what support was needed just to hold our society together. Thankfully along came Jobkeeper, a major boost to JobSeeker, and a myriad of economic stimulus measures driven by all three levels Government. Fast forward twelve months and that massive cash injection has the economy...

DAWN BEASLEY Business

PORTRAIT OF A PORCELAIN ARTIST

She is an extraordinarily diverse artist, highly accomplished in a range of artistic disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics… and everything in between. Dawn, who was a high school teacher in Britain, Botswana and Malaysia before migrating directly to Darwin in 2006, credits her international art and design teaching career...

DOM'S BAR & LOUNGE Business

COCKTAIL OF GOOD IDEAS

Dom Wundke opened Dom’s Bar & Lounge in Nightcliff in Darwin’s northern suburbs to much fanfare. Three months later, covid struck – and the Northern Territory went into lockdown for two months. Dom was forced to lay off all his staff and close the doors. But the Territory Government soon eased the lockdown by allowing home...