Issue 29

PUBLISHER’S LETTER – ISSUE 29

This October edition is packed with strong, morale raising stories, particularly from private companies and our growing resource sector. In fact, the number of good news articles from the private sector even with a global pandemic shows that the NT economy has been somewhat protected.We are lucky when you compare us with the continued lockdowns...

China Essay Issue 29

CHINA FOUNDATIONS OF NT PROSPERITY

In its 1870s heyday more than 4000 Chinese worked these mines, adding to the physical and cultural wealth of the Territory. A decade later 3000 of their compatriots worked laying an astounding kilometre or more of track per day by hand for the Pine Creek railway. They also left an enduring legacy of friendship and Chinese engagement in the...

Beef Report Issue 29

BEEF REPORT

INDONESIA SLAUGHTER STEERS $3.83KG LIVE WEIGHT (RP10,700 = $1AUD) Slaughter cattle prices saw another small rise, up about 500Rp, to push the indicator rate to Rp41,000kg live weight. While Indian buffalo meat is back in the retail market, its availability remains limited. But despite short supply its price still needs to be discounted to...

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...

Obituary: John Ah Kit Indigenous Affairs

JOHN AH KIT: A LIFE LIVED TO THE FULL

Thousands gathered in a Darwin football stadium to farewell one of their own – men and women, young and old, black, white and every colour in between, Labor true believers and conservative diehards. John “Jak” Ah Kit would have been proud to know that he was being given a state funeral and that so many had turned out in the dry season...

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...

NT TRAINING AWARDS Education

SERVING THE COMMUNITY

The firm’s commitment to training and good service has been recognised – it was named Small Employer of the Year at the Northern Territory Training Awards. Two apprentices are working at Berry Springs Mechanical – both are undertaking Certificate III in Light Vehicle Mechanical Technology at Charles Darwin University. Benjamin Nowland...

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...

Hayfield Issue 29

LOVING THE LAND

He certainly hopes so. Like all cattlemen, his livelihood is in the lap of the gods – almost literally. “The word is that we’ll get an early wet season this year and then 10 years of good wets.” The last two seasons have been the toughest the Dyers have recorded since they took on the lease at Hayfield- Shenandoah stations 45 years...