Category: Blog & Opinion

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. People are passionate in these situations, and should not be afraid to act. Suburban Darwin…

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 need to tell  governments, or all persuasions, that this approach is not sustainable.Development needs to…

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 costs are affected by poor community planning. Planning is much more than approving single buildings,…

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…

Our northern capital survived being bombed and blown away only to have its heart torn out by rapacious development. By Nicholas Rothwell READER, come, and drive with me down the mean, degraded streets of the city I most love. Our journey will be brief, but full of memories, and pain, and sharp surprise. Let’s start…