Lands and Planning Minister Josh Burgoyne donned a cowboy hat Monday morning to announce the Finocchiaro CLP Government is gifting a two-hectare parcel of land to the NT Livestock Exporters Association to expand the Berrimah Export Yards, but the value of the free land and the cost of planned infrastructure works was not disclosed.
Mr Burgoyne said the export yards are “vital infrastructure” for the NT’s cattle industry which needed to continue to “prosper”. He estimated the cattle industry was valued at more than $1 billion annually for the NT and needed help in the form of the free land.
We can argue all we like in this comments section, but I reckon there’s one thing we can all agree on: the NT turns out some very fine looking young men. Josh Burgoyne in that hat reminds me a bit of Heath Ledger — handsome young fella, and he wears it well.