UPDATED: The cost of recommissioning the Manton Dam and associated works appears to have blown out by $55 million to $189 million in one year, the CLP Government disclosed on Friday without initially acknowledging it, but said works are nearing completion on the project that will improve water security for the Darwin region.
The Finocchiaro CLP Government’s real reason for amending the Sacred Sites Act earlier this year has become clearer, after it moved to alter the existing Authority Certificate for the Darwin Waterfront precinct to ensure a proposed high-rise hotel project can move ahead, despite repeated objections from traditional owners.
An internal government report into a fracking legislation breach by Empire Energy – now called Beetaloo Energy Australia – shows that while the NT Government first recommended prosecuting the company because a fine was considered an insufficient deterrent, it later decided to send a letter to “encourage behaviour change” instead.
Business news from across the Northern Territory: Latest highlights include APA Group commencing Beetaloo pipeline construction, $1.5B in trade relations showcased as NT heads to World Expo 2025 in Japan, and the NT Government launches October Business Month. Also making resource news is KGL Resources making progress on the Jervois Copper Project in the NT.
The October Business Month 2025 program will see over 70 event partners holding over 200 events throughout the month, with local and national business leaders providing insight through inspirational speeches and plenty of professional development opportunities and seminars across the Territory.
The Northern Territory is set to lose out on nearly $6 billion in GST revenue over the next four years, according to a new report from The Australia Institute, that argued that amount of money could pay for the NT Art Gallery in just over a month.
More than 62 per cent of the Northern Territory’s public servants who voted on the new Enterprise Agreement have rejected the NT Government’s latest pay offer, with the union representing the workers calling on the government to get back to the bargaining table as soon as possible.
The government corporation that markets and organises the Territory’s major events will be rolled into the broader Tourism NT body, to “market tourism and events with greater impact”, but the Tourism Minister could not say how many jobs will be cut or how much money the Finocchiaro CLP Government expects to save through the merger.
The NT Environment Protection Authority has renewed the Darwin Liquified Natural Gas plant’s licence for another five years with new conditions, but appears to be permitting Santos to decide how much a leaking storage tank can continue to leak, a decision the Environment Centre NT said was providing a license to pollute while showing the regulator would not enforce consequences for “super emitters”.
There will be about 2.2 million trays of mangoes grown in the Darwin region this season but growers will be faced with higher labour costs because of an extended harvest period, the ABC reported.
A new new pop culture and technology event called DiGiT, which incorporates gaming, cosplay, digital art and e-sports, along with panels and workshops, will be held in Darwin in November the organisers have said.
The highly anticipated Motocross World Championship will make its return to Australia after a 24-year hiatus this weekend in Darwin, when world class racing hits the Hidden Valley Motorsports complex on a new purpose-built international motocross track.
