Education

SALUTING THE NT’S FUTURE

The electrotechnology electrician was named Austin Asche Apprentice of the Year at the NT Training Awards. He is studying for a Certificate III in Electrotechnology and is employed by the GTNT Group. “Electrical work is a challenging yet rewarding field that offers a range of opportunities for growth and development,” he says....

Issue 41

ALL EYES ON ALICE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY

The integration of a significant amount of renewable energy into the power system requires new technology, new perspectives and new ways of working. For the past two years Alice Springs Future Grid, a $12.5 million collaborative project, has been running a number of trials, investigations and models to consider what can happen now and, more...

Education

AUSMAT ALWAYS WELL PREPARED

Fortunately, broader recognition of rehabilitation's value is growing. In May 2023, the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) welcomed the World Health Assembly’s endorsement of a historic resolution on strengthening rehabilitation in health systems. This resolution highlights the critical importance of ensuring...

Issue 41

BAROSSA CRUCIAL FOR NT ECONOMY

A three-four month offshore construction campaign will create 500 jobs for Australians and a further 300 for highly-skilled expatriate crew and technical support workers from Europe. About 340 hotel rooms will be needed in Darwin. And 90 workers will “change out” every week during pipe-laying – that’s 180 people every week...

Education

SCALE ‘EM UP

The company works hard to recruit, grow and retain great people One of its most successful strategies is called Scale Them Up, a partnership between Humpty Doo Barramundi, Taminmin College and Charles Darwin University. Year 10 and 11 students studying aquaculture or agriculture-related subjects are invited to do work experience at the...

Education

FLYING DOCTORS: MAKING US HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER

A long-term contract to provide health services to the INPEX Ichthys LNG project helps enable the RFDS to carry out its free community services, including emergency evacuations from remote communities and cattle stations. Health staff stationed on INPEX’s two offshore platforms, 240 kilometres off the coast from Broome, are supported by...

Innovation

EVENT FATIGUE IS REAL

I get it. Any other time of the year it’s too hot, too humid and too wet in the Top End. And it’s too hot with too many flies in Central Australia. Which makes sense if you’re holding a music festival or a gala ball under the stars. But the weather has nothing to do with an indoor business event, industry awards night or educational...

Indigenous Affairs

JAWOYN ANCIENT ROCK START

One spectacular site, Gabarnmung, 35 kilometres west of Maningrida, was visited by Jawoyn people up until the 1950s but was forgotten until being rediscovered by Ray Whear and Chris Morgan of the Jawoyn Association while flying by helicopter in 2006. The Jawoyn Association found two Jawoyn elders, Wamud Namok and Jimmy Kalarriya, who said...

Business

SUNBUILD SALUTED

They picked up a new award, the $20- 50 million Defence building category, for the North West Mobile Force Regimental HQ within the Larrakeyah Defence Precinct in Darwin. It was the Territory born-and-bred company’s 40th Master Builders trophy over the past three decades, a testament to the drive to deliver innovative, quality projects –...

Indigenous Affairs

TOXIC TEALS

Facing North resonates on both the domestic and international front. Firstly, it’s an opportunity for those in Canberra to take a moment to “face north” and consider all the great things that are happening in the Territory. Secondly, it reflects the Territory’s unique positioning to face north to Asia, the source of much opportunity,...

Indigenous Affairs

SARAH’S LOVE LETTER TO ARNHEM LAND

Arnhem Land is the place she loves. It is a place that she advocates for bravely –- to ensure that the best parts are not swept away. When she was old enough to broaden her horizons and travel, she became acutely aware of a disparity between access to essential health care in her home region and other places. “I witnessed really good...

Education

MRM PLAYS WELL ABOVE PAY FOR A GOOD CAUSE

Held over two days at the newly upgraded Palmerston Golf and Country Club, more than 300 MRM employees, contractors and suppliers attended the annual events held Friday 9 and Friday 23 June, hitting the fairways for a day of fun while leading the way in funding critical medical equipment for Territory kids. All funds raised from the charity...