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  • Residents Meetings – Take action when it is needed

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

  • Our environment and Darwin Harbour

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    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…

  • Convener’s Message

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    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,…

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  • NIMBY’s, NIABY’s and DIMBA’s

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    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… Share this content

  • Arafura Harbour

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    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, until the Chief Minister Paul Henderson announced that because the land involved is crown land…

  • Old Hospital Site

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    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, the NT Government will move these proposed residential apartments away from the Lambell Terrace (Larrakeyah)…