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...

BIG4 MacDonnell Range Business

GOLDEN STANDARD

He puts his extraordinary success over the past 35 years down to working hard to make the most important people happy – his customers. Brendan and his family own and operate the BIG4 MacDonnell Range Holiday Park in Alice Springs. The park, which is in a beautiful spot below the ranges and only a short drive from the airport and town...

TQ Essay Business

DRIVING CHINA’S DIGITAL HIGHWAY

Facial recognition is now enabled for China bank accounts and ATMs have been upgraded. This service follows on the Alipay Smile to Pay campaign that was  launched two years ago. Its adoption by Chinese banks underpins just how advanced, secure and reliable facial recognition technology has become in China. It’s just one waypoint on...

Darwin Motor Group Business

DMG BRINGS BUSINESS HOME

The couple are strong supporters of hiring, buying and investing local whenever possible. Kevin is the Dealer Principal and Cathryn is the Human Resource Manager. Both have been at the helm of Darwin Motor Group (DMG) for the past four years. DMG is a privately-owned automotive group, which now has five locations in Darwin. It forms part of...

Cruise Ship Industry Business

CRUISING TO PROSPERITY

Darwin enjoys year-round cruise activity, with larger ships visiting in the main cruise season from October-March and a number of small, luxury expedition cruise ships using the city as a home-base to explore the remote Northern Australian coastline from April-September. A total of 76 cruise ships and smaller ships carrying more than 64,000...

NT Youth Business Awards Business

BUSINESS BRAINS

Darwin High School won the overall trophy for the “quality and breadth” of its competition entries. Nathan Lee, Year 12 student at Darwin High, won Category 1 – presenting a pitch and business model to potential investors – with his proposal for Northern Online Retail, which would provide website services to small businesses that...

Pacific Labour Scheme Business

A SOLUTION TO NT’S LABOUR ISSUE

The Darwin-owned business, which offers groundskeeping, landscaping, cleaning, building maintenance and remote area services across the NT, earlier this year signed up to the Australian Government’s Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) to address the staff challenges. Under the PLS, eligible employers can recruit workers from nine Pacific islands and...

Marketforce North Business

WELCOME TO THE TERRITORY

She had visited the Northern Territory’s capital city when she was younger and knew it was a “very relaxed and welcoming place”. Ms Rapley is the head of Marketforce North, a new advertising joint venture between Colemans Printing and Perth-based Marketforce. “The Territory symbolised a new challenge for me,” she says. “I’ve...

Ostojic Business

TOMO FINISHES THE JOB

It was obviously pleasing to gain more work – recognition that the family-owned service and contracting company performs to the highest standards – but there was also a lot of sentiment involved. Ostojic Group sealed their first section of Litchfield Park Road 30 years ago and will have sealed the majority of the road when the last 12...

Power and Water / ICN Business

THE BUSINESS OF CLOSING THE GAP

Power and Water Corporation and the Industry Capability Network NT have joined forces to create a publicly-accessible online database of Aboriginal businesses. NT Aboriginal Content Finder – ntacf.icn.org.au – is an interactive map, which enables companies to pinpoint the location of Aboriginal-owned firms and those that have a high number...

Ship Lift Business

TERRITORY ECONOMY GIVEN $400m LIFT

The 103 metre lift will bring $260 million into the Northern Territory economy every year by servicing large vessels from industries such as offshore petroleum, fishing, pearling, Defence and the Border Force. It will create about 100 jobs during construction and generate about 400 directly and indirectly during operation. The ship lift, which...

Investment Territory Business

TEAM LEADS TERRITORY INVESTMENT CHARGE

The Territory’s economy is expected to grow by 2.5 percent a year for the next five years. Investment Territory has been given the task of doubling that to 5 percent, which would add $1 billion to the NT economy and create jobs. Economists say this can be achieved only through sustainable economic development driven by private...