Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Issue 33

INVESTING FOR IMPACT

And there’s undoubtedly more to come. NAIF – or the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility – is a Federal Government facility that provides funding, until recently purely through loans, dedicated to driving economic activity and job creation. It partners with the private sector to deliver impactful projects right across the...

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...

IRONBARK Business

IRONBARK: Growing Stronger by the Day

It started operations in June 2000 with five staff working from a single old demountable on the outskirts of Darwin. Today it has grown to more than 60 staff, with more than half of them Indigenous, 11 offices throughout the Top End, including corporate offices in Darwin Corporate Park and another base to be built nearby before Christmas....

QUACK PEST CONTROL Business

QUACK’S PATIENTS STILL DYING

Quack Pest Control – whose battle cry of “All Our Patients Die” is known by every Territorian – is a trusted Darwin born-and-bred family firm, which continues to out-compete all newcomers, despite some of them being big international operations. And that’s not simply because it’s local. Quack, which has grown every year for...

THE NATIONAL CRITICAL CARE AND TRAUMA RESPONSE CENTRE Education

TRAUMA CENTRE BATTLES COVID

The AUSMAT, deployed on behalf of the Australian Government by the Darwin-based National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, have been busy since March in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and in Dili, Timor Leste. The situation in Papua New Guinea has been challenging with a sustained increase in covid-19 cases and deaths prompting the...

HUMPTY DOO BARRAMUNDI Business

WORKING AT BARRA FARM A GREAT JOY

The aquaculture technician is one of 129 people on the team at Humpty Doo Barramundi. Jakab is studying for a Certificate III in Aquaculture through Charles Darwin University. “This job is great,” he says. “I like being outdoors, being hands-on, getting dirty.” Jakab, who was born in New South Wales but did most of his schooling...

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY Education

CDU’s TOP TRAINING FOR THE TERRITORY

CDU has so far delivered training to several Territory businesses and communities. The free training has helped to upskill employees in childcare, hospitals, disability and community services, migration support, charity organisations and more. The program is funded by the Federal Government, which chose CDU as the Northern Territory’s...

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Business

CHAMBER HELPS GET US BACK TO WORK

Highly experienced employment services expert Michelle Burgess was brought in by the Chamber of Commerce to help tender for the Local Jobs Program contract, an Australian Government initiative. She is supported by Kerry-Lee Daniell in Darwin and Tracey Bainbridge in Alice Springs. Ms Burgess says the nationwide program is considered a...

CORE LITHIUM Issue 32

FULL SPEED AHEAD

Core Lithium is developing the Finniss Project only 25 kilometres – or one hour’s drive on sealed roads – from Darwin. It’s set to be Australia’s most cost-effective lithium project to date. In fact, while a number of lithium projects in Western Australia have closed in the past couple of years while lithium prices idled, Core...

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Business

CASSY TAKES OVER

Environmental scientist Cassy Schmidt is the new NT director of the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association. She sees her Darwin-based role as not just helping form policy but staying tuned to community feeling. “I live here, so I will be around all the time, listening to people, taking note of their concerns and...

KGL RESOURCES Business

A COPPER-PLATED OPPORTUNITY

The price of copper is strong – like all minerals, it has ups and downs, but the trend is forcefully upwards as the world switches to electric vehicles, which use nearly four times the amount of copper as conventional vehicles. Production of electric vehicles is skyrocketing. There are more than 10 million on the road in the world – with...

Biosecurity Issue 32

DOGS COME TO OUR DEFENCE

Zacc and Scout have been trained to sniff out citrus canker, a highly contagious bacterial disease that is a serious threat to Australia’s citrus industry. Thanks to industry and public support, the NT Government has recently led a successful eradication program, securing proof of freedom from the disease in April. The NT has a formidable...