The Lawler Government rejected the offer of free advice and products to improve the growth of the vines on the Cavanagh Street shade structure from an Australian company that worked on the world famous Gardens by the Bay in Singapore because it was afraid of attracting more public criticism, government emails obtained by the NT Independent show.
This week’s highlights include Vermelha cattle station hitting the market after previous $18 million sale, and ECNT challenges Tamboran’s Shenandoah environment management plan. Also making resource news is NewPeak Metals acquiring a strategic mineral project in the NT, Thor Energy signing a joint venture agreement with Investigator Resources for Molyhil Project, and Central Petroleum drilling at Mereenie.
The former operator of the Darwin city burger joint Good Thanks has been fined $21,000 in the Federal Circuit Court for underpaying a young chef and showing no remorse for it, the Fair Work Ombudsman said.
The former head of the Pastoral Land Board says growing commercial cotton on pastoral lease land without a special permit does not fall within the definition of “pastoral purposes” under the law, while the Lawler Government’s defence of the action removes the specific wording contained under the Act, which states anything grown on the land must be “essential to” and “inseparable from” the business of cattle grazing.
Sun Cable’s resurrected Australia-Asia PowerLink project, which aims to generate solar power from the Barkly region for use in Darwin and Singapore, has been approved by federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.
The Federal Government has confirmed that the NT will not see cuts to international student numbers next year, when it implements caps on students arriving in Australia, and that it will support “growth” for the Territory.
In the last week the NT Government has released nine tenders, including Replace Early Childhood Playground in Larrakeyah Primary School, Darwin region.
A Northern Territory Government-commissioned report has revealed that gas production from the Beetaloo Basin, and the expansion of the liquid natural gas production in Darwin, could lead to an up to 150 per cent increase in the Territory’s emissions, the ABC has reported.
The NT Government’s gas supply deal with Beetaloo Basin gas players is estimated to be worth $4 billion, which a new report says will provide roughly three times more gas than the NT needs to generate electricity by 2030, while better value for money could have been achieved for the Territory.
A new state-of-the-art $80 million data centre in Darwin that will utilise domestic and subsea cables to securely connect and support data storage in the NT and internationally, ultimately improving the NT’s digital economy, has officially opened.
The NT Government awarded 21 contracts in the last week to a total of $15.8 million with the largest being awarded to BMD Urban Pty Ltd for Shoulder Rehabilitation and Sealing from 78.8km to 86.7km of Stuart Highway, Darwin.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has been forced to issue another “apology”, this time to the owners of Bojangles Saloon in Alice Springs, for publicly claiming the owners breached responsible service of alcohol laws, which was incorrect and led to the bar having its licence suspended for two days.
