Country Solar NT Business

SAVING WITH SOLAR

The new joint venture plans to offer more services – particularly environmentally-friendly battery power storage systems – and is even looking at opening up interstate. Country Solar is now leading the renewables revolution – other Territory solar installation and maintenance companies have long looked up to the Darwin-based business as...

Turbocharging Tourism Business

TOURISM TAKES OFF

They say it has contributed to increased numbers of holiday visitors and encouraged businesses to invest. “It’s a great initiative for our tourism industry and has given tour operators the tools to grow their businesses,” says Penny Eckel, Manager of Crocosaurus Cove, a major tourist attraction in the heart of Darwin. We’re now seeing...

National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre Business

PRINCE’S VISIT PAYS DIVIDENDS

Prince Charles visited Barbados in March 2019 and linked the NCCTRC with the team in the Carribean. Disaster preparedness across the Commonwealth continues to be strengthened with the Barbados Defence Force recently classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an Emergency Medical Team Type 1. The NCCTRC took part both as a verifier...

Sunbuild Business

SUNBUILD CELEBRATES

A head-spinning amount has happened since Neil Sunners surprised partner Jim Eadie just before Christmas in 1994 by saying: “Let’s go into business together.” The firm has since completed 270 projects – ranging in value from $1 million to $88 million – and won 23 major Master Builders awards. It has earned an enviable reputation for...

Paspalis Business

SPACETECH FIRM ALIENA SECURES $1.5M, INKS PARTNERSHIP WITH DIH

Co-investment partners, Paspalis - which operates the first and only venture capital fund in the Northern Territory, Cap Vista - the strategic investment arm of Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), a statutory board of the Singapore Ministry of Defence and 500 start-ups - a leading venture capital investor based in the United States,...

Shorelands Business

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY

He soon found himself working there every school holiday. Veteran mechanic Glen Freeth helped trained the boy until he was a qualified heavy diesel mechanic – and then retired. Jack is now 25 and the crane supervisor at the Darwin-based Shorelands Group of companies. Arthur loves Darwin but thought his son needed to work elsewhere for...

City of Darwin Business

MAKING DARWIN A GREEN CITY

Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis and the 12 aldermen are determined to create a cool, green city with sustainable infrastructure. The City of Darwin is aiming for zero emissions by 2030. “We need to take action to immediately reduce emissions, find ways to capture carbon from the atmosphere and look for ways to adapt to the unprecedented changes...

Geoff Morton Business

MORTO SOARS WITH HIS OWN WINGS

He was hired to fix an aircraft engine in Katherine. After finishing the job, he didn’t have enough money to put fuel in his ute to drive the 200 kilometres hometo Batchelor. “So I had to ask the customer to pay the invoice immediately. It was very embarrassing, but that was the only way I could afford to get back.” Today, Morto is...

Regional Asset Maintenance Services Business

LOCAL COLLABORATION THE KEY TO SUCCESS

One business that has been instrumental in the legacy and day-to-day running of Darwin LNG is Regional Asset Maintenance (RAM) Services. RAM Services is an NT family owned Darwin-based company focused on the maintenance requirements of companies owning and operating large assets in Northern Australia. RAM Services carry out the building and...

Inpex Business

INPEX SCORES A CENTURY

It was a remarkable milestone achieved in just over a year. The achievements of the multi-billion-dollar project go beyond that first century of cargoes. When LPG and condensate from Darwin and the Ichthys gas field off the Western Australia coast are added, more than 180 shipments have safely departed for overseas customers. General...

Anindilyakwa Land Council Business

GROOTE BUILDS BETTER FUTURE

They have drawn up detailed plans to develop a lucrative aquaculture industry, open a manganese mine, build a boarding school and start a correctional culture-cum-boot camp. The 14 clans represented by Anindilyakwa Land Council are also working towards taking control of housing, township land and health services. And the Traditional Owners are...

Defence NT Business

WINNING DEFENCE CONTRACTS

Marine Blue, which is part of the Bilba Group, owner of three cattle stations on the Barkly Tablelands, makes polythene piping to carry water to drinking troughs – but the hard-wearing pipes can just as easily be used by the military. DefenceNT, which is part of the Northern Territory Department of Trade, Business and Innovation, helped the...