Business

INTRODUCING DIH GENERAL MANAGER: PATRICK CHAN

Thank you to the EP team, led by Emma Nesbitt, who have worked hard to provide small businesses access to the program and provided invaluable support and advice. Additionally, we wish to thank Emma for her diligent work in ensuring the smooth operation of the program. Throughout the program, we have developed valuable relationships and we...

Innovation

DIH AND PIF: INVESTING IN THE TERRITORY’S INNOVATION FUTURE

It has always been known that Territorians are innovative – how can it be otherwise when you live in a jurisdiction nearly six times the size of Britain but with a population of only 245,000?  But what was needed was an effective way of mining that creativity and making the enormous economic potential known to the world.  Darwin...

Innovation

WHAT DO WE LOOK FOR IN DEALS?

This April 2023 Territory Q features two companies our Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund invested in, Liandra Swim and Atomionics. The two companies demonstrate the types of attributes we seek in deals and illustrate how venture capital can create jobs and economic value in the Northern Territory.  Liandra Gaykamangu’s Liandra Swim is...

Innovation

JOBS FUND BACKS ENTREPRENEURS

Darwin-based Life H2O Australia has received a $2.5 million co-investment through the fund, which will see the business expand its workforce and relocate to a larger premises in Winnellie. Life H2O Australia develops unique portable water purification and desalination systems, which will be useful to remote communities, emergency and disaster...

Business

WHY WE SHOULD BE INVESTING IN TOURISM NOW

At a Federal level, there are limited support programs and grants available to the tourism industry, with tourism not identified as an industry growth centre, despite contributing $152 billion to the economy, supporting more than 300,000 businesses and employing more than 660,000 Australians. Business advisory services, public funding and...

Innovation

MAKING OUR CLEVER IDEAS BEAR FRUIT

A national agency is offering the Northern Territory’s oftenhidden army of innovative manufacturers the kind of help that could be the difference between a clever idea going nowhere or a clever idea going to market. The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC), in conjunction with the Northern Territory Government, has already notched up...

HOSPITALITY NT Innovation

EXCELLENCE REWARDED

EXCELLENCE REWARDED  Nearly 500 people involved in the NT’s hospitality industry gathered at Darwin’s Mindil Beach Casino Resort lawns for the prestigious Hospitality NT Aristocrat Technologies Awards for Excellence.  There were six individuals recognised for outstanding achievements in the industry, many going above and...

Frontier Marine Services Innovation

FRONTIER MARINE’S BRAVE NEW WORLD

Passionate, Resourceful, Reliable – Frontier Marine Services are a dedicated, highly specialised, marine electrical contracting company.  FMS services the marine sector across recreation, commercial and Defence markets, specialising in all aspects of supply, installation, maintenance and urgent defect rectification of marine electrical...

Equatorial Launch Australia Infrastructure

BLAST OFF FOR OUR SPACE INDUSTRY

The Northern Territory is audaciously winning a share of one of the world’s most exciting industries – launching rockets into space.  Cynics scoffed when Equatorial Launch Australia, Gumatj Aboriginal Corporation and the Territory Government announced in 2017 that negotiations were underway to build a space base in Arnhem...

Chamber of Commerce Innovation

NT EXPORT AWARDS A SOURCE OF PRIDE

The Northern Territory’s most unusual business was delighted to be named NT Exporter of the Year in 2021. Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage, which “parks” unused planes, including huge passenger jets, at Alice Springs Airport, triumphed at the Chief Minister’s NT Export Awards. Managing director Tom Vincent says the win was “fantastic...

INPEX Business

ASHLEY TAKES INPEX PATHWAY TO SUCCESS

Ashley Stephensen worked as a lab technician for more than a decade in the mining industry before securing a laboratory analyst position with INPEX in July 2021 as part of the Solid Pathways Program.  Ashley is born and bred in Darwin and his family are Woolwonga people from the Frances Creek area near Pine Creek.  He started his...

Screen Territory Indigenous Affairs

NT SCREEN INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO BOOM

Screen business is thriving in the Northern Territory with record results driven by a raft of new initiatives.  The Territorian screen industry is experiencing record levels of production with a wide range of projects reaching a huge international viewership. The introduction of a new program to attract large-scale international...