THANKS and APPRECIATION need to be built into all organisations. We focus too much on compliance and accountability and insufficiently on genuinely valuing what employees do for businesses.

We should aim to support NT BUSINESSES by preferring them for supply of product and in the letting of contracts for capital works construction. To by-pass locals business and go elsewhere is not right.

SELF-CERTIFICATION is a dangerous thing. I believe all work undertaken should’ve ld be checked by an external certifier, in order to validate the work to both the builder and the client. It avoids pitfalls