CHINA ESSAY Business

CHINA LEADS BLOCK CHAIN ECONOMY

How important is this for business exporting to China? By way of introduction to this topic at a conference, I started my presentation with two observations. First, I observed that among all the bottles of water consumed during the day there was one bottle filled with substituted water. It was, I assured the audience, clean river water taken...

Issue 32

BEEF REPORT

INDONESIASLAUGHTER STEERS $4.59KG LIVE WEIGHT (RP11,100 = $1AUD) Slaughter steer prices have firmed a little, although the market has a wide range of pricing levels. The asking price spread stretches from Rp49,500 to Rp55,000kg live weight as demand and supply factors experience more volatility than usual. Considering the many competing...

CERESTAG Business

MONITORING ANIMALS: ANYWHERE, ANYTIME

Ceres Tag tracks cattle by satellite without any need for additional infrastructure, maintenance, subscription or battery replacements. No wonder it was placed No 1 in AgJournal’s list of 10 Biggest Ag Changes in the Next Decade. The tags are being sold online worldwide. Ceres Tag was developed by husband-and-wife team Melita and...

HOSPITALITY NT Business

PASSION AND LOCAL PRODUCE A WINNING RECIPE

Held on the lawns of Mindil Beach Casino and Resort on 19 May, the annual awards saw 500 hospitality operators, suppliers and supporters gather to celebrate excellence in the Territory’s hospitality industry. In a highlight of the night, the judges named Hoang Ton Co from Darwin Trailer Boat Club and Ryan Hamilton from Phat Mango joint...

MASTER BUILDERS Business

Adapt to Succeed

This time last year we were talking about the emerging pandemic and what support was needed just to hold our society together. Thankfully along came Jobkeeper, a major boost to JobSeeker, and a myriad of economic stimulus measures driven by all three levels Government. Fast forward twelve months and that massive cash injection has the economy...

TED BAILEY Issue 32

TQ PIONEER TED BAILEY

When he left at the age of 15, a priest-teacher said to him: “Goodbye. I hope to never see you again.” Their paths never did cross in later life. But if they had, the priest would undoubtedly have been impressed by what the less-than-diligent schoolboy had made of himself. Ted became a hugely successful businessman and the...

DAWN BEASLEY Business

PORTRAIT OF A PORCELAIN ARTIST

She is an extraordinarily diverse artist, highly accomplished in a range of artistic disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics… and everything in between. Dawn, who was a high school teacher in Britain, Botswana and Malaysia before migrating directly to Darwin in 2006, credits her international art and design teaching career...

DOM'S BAR & LOUNGE Business

COCKTAIL OF GOOD IDEAS

Dom Wundke opened Dom’s Bar & Lounge in Nightcliff in Darwin’s northern suburbs to much fanfare. Three months later, covid struck – and the Northern Territory went into lockdown for two months. Dom was forced to lay off all his staff and close the doors. But the Territory Government soon eased the lockdown by allowing home...

WOMEN'S INNOVATION PITCH Business

JOIN THE CLITERATI

“Half the population has a clitoris – and most of the other half love clitorises,” she says. “And yet we know very little about this beautiful organ that is designed for sexual pleasure.” Suzanne and two expert medical professionals, urologist and surgeon Professor Helen O’Connell and Dr Ea Mulligan, have formed a training and...

BARRY COULTER Issue 32

A DREADFUL MISTAKE

In the first book I detail my discovery tour that I went on when my 77-year-old mother enlightened me as to who my biological father really was; I was 44 at the time in 1992. This was a gravesite confession which began my 27-year research into my genealogy and family history with three families involved – my mother’s family, my biological...

MATES OF THE MURRANJI Indigenous Affairs

Matt Savage the Boss Drover

At the six-mile in Wyndham the word passed aroundMatt Savage, the boss drover, had just come to town His plants on the common, he's looking for men 'Cause he's taking a mob into Queensland.  He's a legend in the outback; he's a man among menMatt Savage, the boss drover, and he's riding again Two thousand store bullocks, wild ones at...

MATES OF THE MURRANJI Issue 32

Mates of the Murranji

As a township, it was an essential resting place for many exhausted drovers, stockmen and heads of cattle during these years as they travelled these stock routes, most notably the Murranji Track. Newcastle Waters is also a historically significant site of the overland telegraph line, with the line being completed and physically joined at Frew...