Tiwi Islands Regional Council Business

STAYING SAFE AND STRONG

The 3500 people who live on the Tiwi Islands are looking forward to life after covid with enormous optimism. They have handled the coronavirus crisis with skill and are now working towards making the Indigenous-owned islands an even better place. The Tiwi Islands Regional Council still has strict covid procedures – vigorous cleaning, hand...

Cloudstreet Consulting Business

CONNECTING THE TERRITORY

Most of us have our head in the clouds when it comes to technology, but today good cloud-based IT is sound business, saving you time, money and effort. Darwin-based Cloudstreet Consulting is creating Territory-hardened IT technology that not just operates effectively across the Territory’s remotest regions but is conquering the United...

Batchelor Institute Business

LEARNING LANGUAGE

Linguists estimate that 120 Aboriginal languages have “fallen asleep” and are no longer spoken since Europeans arrived in Australia. Many others that are still spoken are critically endangered. A group of Indigenous Territorians is determined that Pertame Southern Arrernte – a Centralian language spoken fluently by only 10-20 people,...

Ramada Suites Zen Quarter Business

MELANIE’S TAKING ON NEW HEIGHTS

Life changed for then 23-year-old Melanie Lewis in 2003. She had followed a navy boy to Darwin.  “But instead, I fell in love with the town, the weather – I hate the cold – the fabulously friendly people and the opportunities afforded me here.” Melanie is used to being the brand of her properties and is now moving up in the...

Rirratjingu Aboriginal Corporation Business

WE’RE OPEN FOR BUSINESS

The Rirratjingu people of North-East Arnhem Land are keen to talk business. Traditional Owners want to generate the wealth needed to pay for social, cultural and job-creation programs when the bauxite mine on the Gove Peninsula closes. The refinery shut down eight years ago and the mine is scheduled to cease operation in 2043. But global...

McDonald's Business

BRAND MORE LOCAL THAN YOU THINK

A McDonald’s restaurant represents internationally branded food, assuring us of the same standard and quality world-wide. There are nine McDonald’s throughout the Northern Territory, and it might surprise you that all are locally owned and operated with each licensee living here. “McDonald’s expects you to live where you own,”...

ALC Business

GROOTE CONNECTION

Everyone living on the remote Groote archipelago – about 2000 Traditional Owners and an increasing number of businesspeople – will soon be better connected to the world and each other. Two communications projects costing a total of $8.5 million will speed up internet links, improve mobile phone coverage and enable the Anindilyakwa Land...

DIGITAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS Business

BEST OF THE BEST

He is the senior security engineer at NEC Australia in Darwin, which means he is partly responsible for the security of the Northern Territory Government’s fleet of computers. The Netherlands-born IT expert won the Minister's Digital Excellence Gold Award at the annual NT Digital Excellence Awards this year. The highly regarded awards...

CHINA ESSAY Business

CHANCE TO HEAL CHINA WOUNDS

It comes at a time when Australian China relations are plumbing new depths of despair. The RCEP is the cumulation of eight years’ work. To some extent it has already been overtaken by events, but in other ways it is an agreement uniquely suited to our time and the post-covid and post-Trump economy. The eight-year period saw the increasing...

ENERGY CLUB NT Business

GLOBAL POWER WITHIN OUR GRASP

The industry knows this, the Government knows this and the Territory Economic Reconstruction Commission have confirmed this recently in their final report. Using this report as a blueprint supporting energy development, is the Territory up to the challenge? Our energy future and the Territory’s economic growth should have a strong focus...

DARWIN LAKSA FESTIVAL Business

FOR THE LOVE OF LAKSA

About 3000 people attended the Laksa Festival in Darwin in late November. And 3600 downloaded a special Food Tour app and voted for what they considered the best of 69 featured dishes to determine the People’s Choice winner on festival day. Festival organisers secretly sent out a team of “ninjas” to taste the dishes to determine the top...

Budget Infrastructure Investment Business

ROADS TO RECOVERY

The Northern Territory is set to benefit from the Federal Government’s record $110 billion infrastructure investment over 10 years, with an additional $9.7 billion delivered nationally in the 2020–21 Budget bringing total infrastructure investment in the Territory to over $2.7 billion since 2013–14. Key investments include $120 million...