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Yesterday, I attended a residents’ meeting at Leanyer. There people are working with the two local members- Paul Henderson and Peter Styles to save a fine section of eucalypt vegetation environment between their homes and the new suburb of Muirhead.…
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Our environment and Darwin Harbour
Industrial development is threatening the environment in which we live. Without a ‘best practice’ transparent executive EPA, and minus a strong and independent Darwin Harbour Management Committee, the land and sea environment of Darwin will continue to be destroyed. We…
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Convener’s Message
Welcome, Members, Supporters and Visitors to our New Website Worldwide planning for community is now essentially recognised. It is makes for feelings of well-being, community spirit, and cohesion, instead of alienation and despair. Time and again our health and policing…
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NIMBY’s, NIABY’s and DIMBA’s
This brilliant piece – a defence of community groups rights to object – was written by an objector after she was attacked in the paper for being a NIMBY. This is her response…
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Arafura Harbour
In a lull in CBD development a proposal was made by Even Lynn of Gwelo Investments and Hans Vos to develop a huge canal estate from East Point to Coconut Grove. There was a huge organised public reaction against this,…
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Old Hospital Site
Very disappointingly, in proposing the redeveloping of this site, the NT Government mandated that 20% of its area must be used up by residential blocks to pay for the cost of the park. In a compromise response to local consultation,…
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Flagstaff Park and the Sudden Appearance of the Mystery Restaurant
Historically Flagstaff Park is a distinct area beyond the fence at the end of Myilly Point. This is where the NT Army Commander, and later Mr Justice Blackburn, lived in Flagstaff House, before Cyclone Tracy blew it away in 1974.…
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