Master Builders Business

SKILLS BATTLE LINES DRAWN

The Federal Government and the key institutions all embraced a collective response to the challenges. But as covid subsides (hopefully) new battle lines are already being drawn, driven by the urgent need for more people – and especially those with skills. Who would have thought that we would be talking about workforce and skills shortages...

Business

NT’S OPPORTUNITIES ON DIGITAL SILK ROAD

Many of these are trading partners and markets for the Northern Territory. They are also trade competitors so it’s important we understand the changing trade environment. The digital Silk Road is an integral part of the Belt and Road initiative. It’s the soft infrastructure that brings added benefits to the hard infrastructure so often...

JASON HANNA Business

TQ PIONEER JASON HANNA

He started “coming out” in Murwillumbah in northern New South Wales – but there were complications and his mum Bev had to be rushed 89 kilometres to the hospital in Lismore for the baby to fully enter the world. “Apparently, I was supposed to be a girl and was going to be named Kelly.” Jason’s working-class family had no...

FLEET CHOICE/AANT Business

JOINT VENTURE EXPANDS SERVICE

Fleet Choice is the largest provider of vehicle packaging in the Territory – it helps more than 100 employers, including the Northern Territory Government. AANT is the largest membership association in the Territory with more than 20,000 members. They have been been reinvesting profits back into their membership and community for nearly...

Real Estate Business

HOME MARKET HEATS UP

But the Real Estate Institute of the NT says the median price on both “flattened” as the focus of the purchases moved more to properties under the $600,000 mark. Vacancy rates eased a little in the quarter, but rents continued to feel upward pressure. Quentin Kilian, in his final report as REINT chief executive before taking the...

Real Estate Business

NADINE HELPS FIND YOUR DREAM HOME

She has joined the well-established and respected team at Knight Frank. “I’ve come home,” she says after a 12-month exile in regional New South Wales in the middle of covid and winter. “I missed my friends and my family, the weather and the easy relaxed lifestyle that we enjoy here.” Nadine is a fitness fanatic and enjoys running...

NORTH EAST ARNHEM LAND ABORIGINAL CORPORATION Business

THERE’S MAGIC IN THE MISSION

It competes for tenders on the open market, works hard to make a profit, does a good job for a good price, and distributes a dividend to members – the 26 Yolngu clans who own the corporation – at the end of each financial year. But that’s where the comparisons end. Nhulunbuy-based NEAL, which operates a range of divisions, from...

CITY OF DARWIN Business

COUNCIL MAKES DARWIN A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE

Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis says the council wants Darwin to be an even better place to invest, work and live. And not just in the city centre. “In the past, the focus has been solely on the CBD,” he says. “But I want more and more improvements in the suburbs as well.” Mr Vatskalis will probably go down in history as the man who...

NORTHERN LAND COUNCIL Business

NLC LEADS DRIVE TO PROTECT ‘OUR MOB’

It was one of the first organisations in Australia, including governments, to act when the covid pandemic began – the land council immediately closed Indigenous communities throughout its Top End jurisdiction to all but essential workers. But the NLC now has a new enemy in what is literally a life-or-death battle – misinformation. NLC...

CLOUDSTREET CONSULTING Business

10 YEARS BUILT AND HARDENED IN THE NT

Covid catapulted the digital world into our daily lives. Working from home, Zoom and Teams meetings became routine. For governments and organisations in education, health, industry, communication, remote surveillance and more, accessible information and cloud technology played a significant role in fighting the epidemic. “Moving to the...

CIVIL CONTRACTORS FEDERATION NT Business

CAPABILITY AND CAPACITY

There is capacity within the civil sector to take on more work in the present economic climate, but procurement practices need to change to better support the local industry. There are shortages of labour, equipment and supply resources, and if governments and other key clients continue to procure our services on a short term,...

NT AIRPORTS Business

AIRPORTS POWERED BY SMART THINKING

Airport Development Group (ADG) is committed to long-term investment in solar at Darwin, Alice Springs and Tennant Creek airports. It has invested $20 million in solar power generation in Darwin over the past five years and $2.26 million in Alice Springs since 2010. Alice Springs airport is typically 100 percent powered by solar and last...