Issue 37

BUILDING A BUSINESS IN A MAN’S WORLD

Gemma Mackett has played a pivotal role in building a business from the ground up. And she’s done it in an industry where women are still a rarity. She is the managing director of PCM, a successful Northern Territory bornand- bred industrial maintenance services company. Gemma is believed to be the only female managing director of a...

Issue 37

POWERFUL INTEREST IN NT RENEWABLES

The Northern Territory Government’s drive to cut carbon emissions from electricity use and to grow the renewables industry is gathering pace. Its goal is to halve carbon emissions from electricity this decade and eliminate them by 2050. Efforts include a string of projects already underway to transition to renewable energy – from...

Business

CROSS SOLUTIONS: A 30-YEAR SUCCESS STORY

The Northern Territory’s largest surveying company is celebrating 30 years in business. Cross Solutions was established in Nhulunbuy with just one surveyor, Graeme Cross, who along with his brother Rob, has worked tirelessly through the good times and the bad to build a thriving business that today employs more than 60 people across four...

Issue 37

IT’S A SWELL TIME IN PALMERSTON

The City of Palmerston continues to live up to its reputation as “a place for people”, with the Northern Territory’s best swimming pool and leisure complex now under construction. The Swimming, Wellness, Events, Leisure and Lifestyle or SWELL precinct replaces the ageing Palmerston swimming pool and includes something for...

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...

Business

GREAT LEAP FORWARD

Indigenous people have been fishing and gathering seafood along the Northern Territory’s vast coast for more than 50,000 years. Now they are poised to become major players in the commercial industries. The Aboriginal Sea Company was set up by the Northern, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa land councils after several years of consultation with...

Business

STATE OF OUR INNOVATION NATION: 2022 AND BEYOND

The Northern Territory provides investors and international innovators one of the most commercially exciting jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region. In the past six years, the Northern Territory has quietly developed the foundations of a vibrant innovation ecosystem. A highlights reel would show you companies such as SPEE3D creating new...

Business

SITZLER SHARES SUCCESS

Award-winning construction company Sitzler has again demonstrated its key role in the economy of Northern Australia by awarding more than $100 million worth of work packages to subcontractors in the past four months. Most of the work went to local businesses. General Manager Anthony Carbone says Sitzler awards subcontracts to Northern...

Infrastructure

TIWI PARTNERS TRIUMPH IN FACE OF ADVERSITY

A Northern Territory company jointly owned by a Traditional Owner group and a highlyregarded construction company has delivered a multi-million-dollar Defence project in the toughest of circumstances. Tiwi Partners recently completed the upgrade of roads and infrastructure at the Delamere Air Weapons Range ahead of schedule and on...

Issue 37

GAS-POWERED ROAR TO RENEWABLES

Energy security and climate change have been the two issues dominating the headlines in regards to Australian energy policy; the debate is largely split down the lines of party politics, with little real conversation possible. Recent global events have exposed the vulnerability of European countries that have sacrificed their own energy...

Issue 37

BREAKTHROUGH AT BEETALOO

Two of the most important economic projects in Northern Territory history have taken a gigantic step forward. Tamboran Resources has bought out Origin Energy – making it the dominant explorer drilling for shale gas in the giant Beetaloo Basin – after raising more than $100 million from major Australian and American investors. It is now...

Indigenous Affairs

BILAWARA LEE: PROTECTING LARRAKIA CULTURE

The old Larrakia lady lay in her bed at the palliative care unit in Royal Darwin Hospital and wept quietly. Not because she was dying – she accepted that with dignity – but because she feared she would not be able to understand her ancestors when she crossed to the other side. They would speak only Larrakia, a language not spoken...