Territory Air Services Business

TAS FLYING HIGH WITH NEW DEAL

Territory Air Services has been operating flights to and from the giant Sea Farms project on Legune Station, near Timber Creek. Chief executive Brenton Hurt and his company director wife Anne are delighted. “Getting contractors, staff and anyone else where they need to be, when they need to be there, is how TAS can be most helpful to the Sea...

Sea Farms Business

$1.5BN SEA DRAGON VISION COMES TRUE

Project Sea Dragon expects to produce its first harvest of premium black tiger prawns by late 2023. The first stage of the massive sustainable aquaculture business will cost $281 million and export 6000 tonnes of prawns in the first year of operation. This staged project will see up to 10,000 hectares of prawn ponds in production and...

Indigenous Affairs

IN MEMORY OF COWBOY JOHNNY

But Johnny was declared by Time magazine almost 30 years ago to be the symbolic last of a heroic breed of Indigenous men who helped open up the wild north on horseback. Steve Strike took the original photo for the publication and introduced me to Johnny for a follow up interview in TQ 2014. That was the start of a long friendship and I never...

Chamber of Commerce Business

CHAMBER HELPS GROW OUR OWN

The Chamber of Commerce selected three young business leaders, Laura Finch, Jordan Tuit and Tim Woolfe, to become Intern Non-Executive Directors as part of a developmental and forward-facing plan. Led by the mission of supporting the Territory into a brighter future, the Chamber embarked on a strategic one-year initiative that saw the creation of...

Economic Commissioners Business

TRIO TO SHOW OFF NT TO THE WORLD

Andrew Cowan is the Investment Commissioner, Jason Schoolmeester the Major Projects Commissioner and Louise McCormick the acting Infrastructure Commissioner. They know that all three roles are intertwined – one necessary to the other – and plan to work closely together. “We are already working as a united team,” says Mr...

Inpex Business

EXPANSION ON HORIZON FOR FAMILY BUSINESS

Fast forward 30 years and Max has not only taken over the reins of his father’s family owned and operated company, Winnellie Hydraulics, he is taking it to a national and global level. Max’s parents Richard and Carol arrived in Darwin with $30 in their pockets looking for work to earn enough money to continue their travels around...

Darwin Innovation Hub Business

THE TERRITORY: BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD TO ‘WORK FROM ANYWHERE’

The Territory has traditionally been focussed on tourism and agriculture, but increasingly, there is a small and exciting high-technology sector. The world has discovered WFA – working from anywhere. No longer do businesses need to be run from big cities. Instead, employees are going to pick a lifestyle and climate that suits them. This...

Jaytex Constructions Business

JAYTEX SURGES AHEAD

It is building a 1500 square metre custom-designed office and warehouse for Australia’s leading energy infrastructure company APA. The project is seen as a demonstration of faith in the Territory’s economic prospects by a world-class business. Jaytex, which employs 40 Territorians directly and uses a large number of local...

Charles Darwin University Education

SCOTT BOWMAN

The new Vice-Chancellor wants to dramatically increase the number of students – domestic and international, academic and vocational education – when the covid pandemic is over. He says the CDU is perfectly positioned, geographically and economically, to become one of Australia’s greatest universities. “We’ve got great staff;...

Issue 33

PUBLISHER’S LETTER

This year has had its ups and downs. Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s roadmap to reopening the borders is sensible and welcome. He has come out first of all the states with a plan and I think the lockout over lockdown is definitely an example of Territorians looking after each other. There is even talk of Australia opening its borders early next...