Issue 40

REALISING THE TERRITORY’S GROWTH POTENTIAL

The multi-billion-dollar Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct on the outskirts of Darwin will be a blueprint for the future of Australian master-planned industrial hubs.  The Territory Government is determined to create thousands of well-paid jobs and diversify the economy while protecting the Top End’s cultural heritage and...

Issue 40

THE FACTS OF FRACKING – WEALTH, JOBS, SECURITY

It will unlock the world’s largest untapped gas reserves.  The knock-on effects will be enormous – the creation of more than 6000 jobs, royalties handsome enough to pay down the Territory’s crippling $9.5 billion debt, security of domestic gas supplies and a boost for Australia’s $90 billion LNG export industry.  Of...

Issue 40

STARS ALIGN FOR JERVOIS

Surging demand for copper – driven by the clean energy transition, together with supply constraints – has analysts forecasting a chronic shortfall in copper over the next decade.  That’s good news for the Northern Territory’s Jervois project, 380 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs.  “We’re making significant...

Issue 40

WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH REVOLUTIONISES MAPPING

The technology, developed by Dr Rohan Fisher, uses environmental modelling, cultural mapping and simulations of landscape processes projected onto 3D-printed terrains for use in a wide variety of knowledge exchange contexts.  These Projection Augmented Landscape Models (PALMs) bring science and local knowledge together in a way that...

Business

INTRODUCING DIH GENERAL MANAGER: PATRICK CHAN

Thank you to the EP team, led by Emma Nesbitt, who have worked hard to provide small businesses access to the program and provided invaluable support and advice. Additionally, we wish to thank Emma for her diligent work in ensuring the smooth operation of the program. Throughout the program, we have developed valuable relationships and we...

Issue 40

GROOTE GROWS A BETTER FUTURE

Tropical Black Lip Oysters are being grown on Groote Eylandt, an archipelago off the Northern Territory coast, as part of a groundbreaking program to develop an Indigenous owned seafood industry.  Groote Aqua Aboriginal Corporation and Groote Holdings Aboriginal Corporation are spearheading the project with the support of the Anindilyakwa...

Innovation

DIH AND PIF: INVESTING IN THE TERRITORY’S INNOVATION FUTURE

It has always been known that Territorians are innovative – how can it be otherwise when you live in a jurisdiction nearly six times the size of Britain but with a population of only 245,000?  But what was needed was an effective way of mining that creativity and making the enormous economic potential known to the world.  Darwin...

Business

WARD KELLER: THE TERRITORY’S LAW FIRM

Ward Keller has moved up in the world – literally and figuratively – since being founded in Darwin in 1963. The firm, as it is now recognised, was established by Dick Ward (Dick Ward Drive is named after him) and Richard Keller. Although the firm was founded under its present name 60 years ago, it first established in 1910 with Ross...

Issue 40

A HELPING HAND WHEN IT’S MOST NEEDED

“The Darwin Clinic is a modern well designed newly built clinic and is the Northern Territory’s first private mental health clinic. The unit is linked by a discreet undercover walkway to the private hospital and Royal Darwin Hospital, which provides patients much sought-after anonymity, as well as private, rapid access to a large team of...

Issue 40

AROWS SPEARHEADS ECONOMIC GROWTH

The Territory Government is pumping an additional $3.95 million over the next three years to progress the Adelaide River Off-stream Water Storage project, otherwise known as AROWS, bringing the total investment for the project to $21 million since inception. The Territory Government and the Power and Water Corporation engaged...

Issue 40

RENEWABLES SCORE BUDGET HAT-TRICK

The Budget will see investments in three major initiatives. Work on the business case for the Darwin-Katherine Renewable Energy Hub has been boosted by $1 million in the Budget for this financial year. The funding will allow work on the master planning and concept development of the major electricity transmission infrastructure project to...

Business

BUDGET HELPS BOUNCE-BACK

The Territory Government will spend an additional $35.5 million in 2023- 24 and 2024-25 to re-energise the tourism sector. The aim is to encourage more people to visit the Territory, stay longer and spend more. Darren Lynch, who owns 00SEVEN Jet Ski Adventures, says the Territory needs to carry out cooperative marketing with Tourism...