Clouston Associates Business

LANDSCAPE AS A CANVAS

It is the broad skill set of landscape architects – integrating design vision, scientific and technical rigour – that, if introduced early, helps expand the potential for Territory projects and community outcomes. But it is practical competence and local experience in delivering those projects that make the landscape architect’s...

SANTOS Business

SANTOS SET TO LOCK IN DARWIN LNG FUTURE

The tolling arrangements and secured offtake were critical commercial milestones on the path to the Barossa project taking financial investment decision in the first half of next year as backfill for the Darwin LNG plant when Bayu-Undan ceases production. The long-term, binding supply and purchase agreement with a Japanese company for the...

DARWIN INNOVATION HUB Business

SINGAPORE AND NORTHERN TERRITORY PARTNER THROUGH MOU TO ACCELARATE SPACE TECH

The Territory is shooting for the stars as the NT Government and the Darwin Innovation Hub sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cap Vista Pte Ltd, the strategic investment arm of the Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency, and Singapore Space & Technology Ltd (SSTL) on 19 November 2020. The MoU will enable the NT...

HARDY LANDSCAPING Business

INNOVATIVE, STIMULATING PLAYSCAPES

A local family operation, Hardy Landscaping has been looking after Territorians and their landscaping, irrigation and playground needs for 10 years. It’s their refreshing approach to residential and commercial projects that’s earned them an enviable, personable and knowledgeable reputation. Having exclusive partnerships with eight of the...

Anindilyakwa Land Council Business

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Senior Traditional Owner Tony Wurramarrba, chair of the Anindilyakwa Land Council, says: “This is our sovereign land. “Local decision-making is just the start of the journey to full, formally recognised and legally binding self-governance.” The land council has set up a Community Justice Group to develop an alternative to prison. The...

Anindilyakwa Land Council Business

MINE NEARLY READY TO GO

Tony Wurramarrba, chair of the Anindilyakwa Land Council, says islanders are excited by the prospect of operating a mine. “People realise that it’s a great opportunity for us,” he says. The land council has formed a new company, Anindilyakwa Advancement Aboriginal Corporation, which is registered as Winchelsea Mining. A joint venture...

NT Cattle Map Business

PROVIDING CERTAINTY AND PROTECTION

The NT is made up of three dominant types of land tenure, excluding Commonwealth lease – Aboriginal freehold land, pastoral land and freehold titled land. The Aboriginal estate is about 50 percent of the Territory’s land mass while the pastoral estate makes up 49 per cent or 700,000 square kilometre. Freehold land accounts for around 1 per...

Northern Territory Catlemen's Association Business

ON TRACK TO BE CARBON NEUTRAL

Pastoralists care about the environment in which they raise their livestock – it is the basis of good business sense. The Australian red meat industry’s goal is to be carbon neutral by 2030. As an industry, we are serious about addressing greenhouse gas emissions and are committed to improving the environment while producing high quality...

WORK WEAR Business

WORK WEAR: A ONE-STOP SHOP

The store’s strength is its variety. The aim of owners Dave and Chris Douglas is to stock enough gear to ensure it’s the only place you need to visit for work clothes and safety gear. “We have a wide range of gear in store as we supply to a wide range of customers,” says Chris. Work Wear stocks everything from boots, and hi-vis and...

Milner Meat & Seafood Business

BAND OF BROTHERS RUN TOP BUTCHERS

They had worked in the butchers on Saturdays with their Dad since they were young. Sam, Tim, and Dean Nelson now own and run Milner Meats and Seafood in Alice Springs. The shop is renowned for the breadth of its offerings, which include staples such as beef lamb, pork and chicken, plus top-quality seafood. Much of beef and lamb comes from...

Rimfire Group Business

RIMFIRE ENERGISES THE SOLAR WORLD

The projects are: • A 10MW single-axis tracking solar farm on a 20-hectare site at Batchelor, 100 kilometres south of Darwin. • A 12.5MW gas-fired power installation on 16,000 square metres at Hudson Creek on the outskirts of Darwin. Rimfire’s project team did all the complicated groundwork, including securing the land for both...

CENTRE FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY Business

REACHING FOR THE STARS

A group of Indigenous men, proud representatives of the world’s oldest surviving culture, were assembling two world-class satellite dishes in the Australian Outback for an American space company. And they were doing it well and at speed. Engineers from space launch conglomerate ViaSat watched the assembling taking place from the United...