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...

BEEF EPORT Issue 30

BEEF REPORT

INDONESIA SLAUGHTER STEERS $4.17KG LIVE WEIGHT (RP10,350 = $1AUD) Slaughter cattle prices have continued to rise with the new indicator rate at Rp43,000 per kg live weight for slaughter steers. There is still a wide spread of prices from Rp41k in Lampung up to 45k in Java, while prices in Aceh have been as high as Rp46,700. While these...

FEDERAL BUDGET 2020/21 Issue 30

FEDERAL BUDGET 2020/21: WHAT’S IN STORE FOR SMEs?

A number of business tax and stimulus measures were announced in the budget, which will mean significant opportunities for businesses to grow employment opportunities and return revenue into cashflow. The Government will need to pass a range of laws to implement these announced changes, so there may be some tweaks to these initiatives over the...

TERRITORY PIONEER Issue 30

TQ PIONEER: BRENDAN HEENAN

He has reinvested $3.5 million into his flagship tourism business – the Big4 MacDonnell Range Holiday Park in Alice Springs – in the past three years alone. “You have to keep growing your business, improving your business, or you’ll go backwards. Brendan’s family-run enterprise has had its rocky moments, such as the pilots’...

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...

RMI Security Business

RMI: TRUSTED TERRITORIAN

Twenty three years later, he is the owner of successful Darwin-based RMI Security, which has the reputation as the city’s most trusted security firm. “I’m a true Territorian,” he says. “And RMI is a truly Territory company – established in the Territory and staffed by Territorians. “But I feel that sometimes we don’t get...

GEOFF TODD Business

ARTISTIC HOME IN THE NORTH

It read: “Have you got art qualifications, enjoy the bush, 4-wheel driving, hunting, fishing and are not afraid of single engine aeroplanes?” Geoff, whose figurative style in painting, drawing and sculpture has since earned him a dedicated army of admirers, says: “I knew the job was for me.” The work was in Maningrida, a remote...

JKY & CO Business

JOHN’S WORK WINS APPLAUSE

Representatives from Land Rover offered Leigh and Rachel McKay the chance to become the brand’s authorised repair and spare parts supplier in Darwin. During negotiations, Rachel produced a business plan drawn up by John Yousef of JKY & Co accountancy firm in Winnellie. “They were very impressed,” says Rachel. “They said they had...

Wallaroo Tours Business

PRESERVE, PROMOTE AND PROTECT

“Prohibiting tourists isn’t the answer. Education and understanding the creatures and their environment is,” says barefooted Pat “Croc Dundee” Chappell. For the past seven years, Pat has been educating people about how to preserve, promote and protect crocodiles and other creatures that inhabit the Adelaide River ecosystem, and what...