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The suspension of Defence Housing Australia’s Lee Point housing development, which may lead to a permanent halt, will negatively impact the Territory’s business sector, the Chamber of Commerce and the housing industry’s peak body have warned.
The Fyles Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Larrakia Energy and the Korea Midland Power Co to build a 300MW solar power plant to purportedly provide electricity to nearby gas plants, but the government has refused to provide details of the agreement.
Territorians are facing a potential fuel supply outage if industrial action initiated today over a pay squabble by East Arm fuel tanker operators escalates into a full-blown strike, a union has warned.
The NT Government awarded 15 contracts in the last week to a total of $5 million with the largest being awarded to Arafura Tree Services & Consulting Pty Ltd for Provision of Arboreal Services to Public and Social Housing Assets for a Period of 24 Months in Darwin Region.
The NT Independent is providing an update of resource news from across the Northern Territory. Highlights this week include John Wood Group getting the contract for Tamboran’s NTLNG project’s engineering phase, Core Lithium’s spodumene output for June falls, Lithium Plus Minerals hits on high-grade lithium, and Resolution Minerals has finalised drill targets at its Benmara battery metals project.
In the last week the NT Government has released 14 tenders, including Supply and Delivery of Pharmaceutical Products to Specified NT Correctional Facilities for a Period of 24 Months in Darwin, Katherine, and Nhulunbuy. Click here to see the full list this week.
A work timetable for the upgrade of Darwin Airport’s tarmac will be reportedly be released in the coming days by the Department of Defence to enable airlines to effectively schedule flights into and out of Darwin, as well as aid Territorians in planning their upcoming late year and Christmas holidays, the government said.
Darwin’s consumer price index rose by 1.2 per cent – the highest increase of all cities for the June quarter – due in part to prevailing high commodity prices and services, figures released by the Department of Treasury and Finance show.
The NT Government awarded 15 contracts in the last week to a total of $19.3 million with the largest being awarded to NTEX Pty Ltd for Demolition of 76 Unit Public Housing Complex in Shiers Street, The Narrows, Darwin.
Charles Darwin University accounting students will be running tax clinics to help other students and low-income earners in completing their returns and identifying tax deductions.
A fibre-optic submarine cable linking Port Hedland to a Perth to Singapore cable, and thus Darwin to the city-state, has been switched on, fiber and network company Vocus has said.
