Issue 38

BUILDING A LEGACY

Once home to an abundant and diverse ecosystem of native plants, fish, birds and wildlife, Top End floodplains are being devastated as feral buffalo trample native vegetation, cause soil erosion and compaction, and spread invasive weeds, such as mimosa. Freshwater floodplains are being turned to salt, paperbark forests and magpie geese nests...

Issue 38

OUR GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY WITH CHINA

The Chairman is reputed to have replied: “It’s too early to tell.” That comment could well be applied to evaluating the first 50 years of the formal diplomatic recognition of the People’s Republic of China by Australia. This diplomatic recognition ranks as one of the most significant diplomatic events in Australia history since...

Issue 37

BEEF REPORT

KEY POINTS • Indonesian foot and mouth disease vaccination program finally gaining momentum. • FMD risk to Australia is declining due to a combination of increasing vaccine coverage and heightened biosecurity at Australian entry points. INDONESIA SLAUGHTER STEERS $5.15KG LIVE WEIGHT (RP10,300 = $1AUD) Slaughter cattle prices continue...

Business

NATION SALUTES BARRA PIONEERS

The husband-and- wife team of Bob Richards and Julii Tyson began Humpty Doo Barramundi against extraordinary odds. They knew nothing about aquaculture when they bought into the struggling operation on the banks of the tidal Adelaide River. There was no running water nor all-weather road access. Much of the workforce was volunteering family...

Education

GROWING TERRITORY TALENT

Like every Northern Territory business, Australia’s largest barramundi farm has found it harder recently to attract and retain the right people. So Humpty Doo Barramundi doesn’t just grow scrumptious, premium-quality fish – it also grows Territory talent. “Northern Australia is a long way from the rest of Australia’s population...

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...

McARTHUR RIVER MINE Issue 36

CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH FOR McARTHUR RIVER

The good health of the McArthur River and the safety of the fish for eating are among the findings of the latest Independent Monitor’s Annual Environmental Performance Audit Report for Glencore’s McArthur River Mine.  MRM, which is 65 kilometres from the town of Borroloola, is developing one of the largest zinc and lead deposits in...

NT Seafood Council Issue 36

ROB LEADS SEAFOOD INDUSTRY’S BEST OF THE BEST

A man with a name perfectly suited to his job has been honoured for a lifetime of dedication to the Northern Territory’s seafood industry.  Robert Fish was awarded the Industry Ambassador Award at the Seafood Council’s Atlantis 2022 NT Seafood Industry Awards.  He was chair of the Seafood Council for a decade and is widely...

NT RESOURCES WEEK Issue 36

NT RESOURCES READY TO ROAR

The annual three-in-one NT Resources Week is being billed as “the one not to miss” as the Northern Territory prepares for what industry experts describe as “enormous” development.  SEAAOC, Northern Australia’s largest and longest established gas conference, will be staged alongside Mining the Territory and the Environmental...

Chamber of Commerce Innovation

NT EXPORT AWARDS A SOURCE OF PRIDE

The Northern Territory’s most unusual business was delighted to be named NT Exporter of the Year in 2021. Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage, which “parks” unused planes, including huge passenger jets, at Alice Springs Airport, triumphed at the Chief Minister’s NT Export Awards. Managing director Tom Vincent says the win was “fantastic...

Issue 35

CROCS PAY THEIR WAY

Renowned scientist Grahame Webb says hunters, not conservationists, were the first to lobby the NT Government Administration to ban the shooting of crocs. A profitable industry has since built up around crocodiles: Landowners, especially Aboriginal Traditional Owners, sell wild crocodile eggs to crocodile farms, or collect and incubate...