Illegal arrivals. 

Illegal aspirants and the ADF are playing a game of ‘cat and mouse’ when it comes to boat arrivals and intercepts. Defence, when funded properly for surveillance operations, had the upper hand in the issue. I do not think that is now the case—we should expect an ever-increasing challenge from people smugglers wanting to make landfall on the Northern Australian coast.

CBD Development in Mitchell Street

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This development is both mind-boggling and jaw-dropping in its appeal to the imagination. Without a doubt, Darwin’s CBD, which has experienced more than its fair share of downsides, has turned the corner, and things are looking up. May this new wave of positivism and prosperity continue into future years and decades.

Tivan is outstanding

Tivan’s audacious enterprise and positive approach to mineral extraction in the NT identify it as being managed by purposeful, practical, imaginative leaders who test and consolidate approaches, ensuring the company is building on a solid foundation.

 

Leave Tamboran be

Environmental groups are generally hasty in initiating processes that thwart economic development. That is the case in this instance, for Tamboran has bent over backwards to ensure compliance with all rigid expectations. It seems that these groups exist only to create confusion and discord.

Construction industry on the up

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This new and exciting development will greatly bless Darwin and fill a significant accommodation void. We are blessed to have our construction industry returning to an exciting period of expansion, both within the CBD and through the suburban housing complexes under construction.

Luke Gosling

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This successful funding application is just one example of the success our Federal Member for Solomon, Like Gosling, has had in eliciting funds from Canberra for necessary Darwin projects. He represents his electorate and constituents with indefatigability, carefully researching and presenting our funding needs. We have been blessed to have him as our representative in Canberra.

Coastwatch in the North of Australia

It’s better late than never in upgrading this surveillance, but funding for coast watching should have never been curtailed in the first place. Australia has again become an attractive magnet for illegal fishers and people smugglers. The Albanese Government has been failing this program since its election in 2022.

Social Mayhem and out of control crime in the NT

In 1976, the Department of Education commissioned a study, undertaken over two years, by Mitsuro Shimpo, a visiting overseas scholar. During his research, Dr Shimpo visited almosr every remote community in the NT, some of them twice. His report, ‘A Social Process In Education,’ predicted what the future might hold if communities AND PARTICULARLY PARENTS did not take responsibility for the upbringing of their children. They didn’t – and now we have the social mayhem confronting the NT.

Ships ahoy!

This commissioning is excellent news. I hope the four ships, each with a forecast of 20 years of service, will enhance surveillance and defence capability in our northern waters and further afield.

Gosling on the wrong political ship

Sadly, I have realised the ‘double jeopardy’ situation with which we are confronted federally. Luke Gosling is an outstanding politician who has runs on the board because he fiercely and consistently represents territory needs. But the Albanese Government is the worst government we have had since the Whitlam era. So, for whom do I vote?