Category: News
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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 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
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, until the Chief Minister Paul Henderson announced that because the land involved is crown land…
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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, the NT Government will move these proposed residential apartments away from the Lambell Terrace (Larrakeyah)…
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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. There remain relics of a large tropical garden with tennis courts and flagpole. It is…
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Down Disconsolate Streets
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…
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Useful Links
Australian Labor PartyNT Branch http://www.nt.alp.org.au/Ph: 08 8981 3801Fax: 08 8981 3303Email Territory Labor Country Liberals http://www.countryliberals.org.au/info@countryliberals.org.au Independent Parliamentary Members http://notes.nt.gov.au/lant/members/Members1.nsf/Members/By%20Party?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=2#2 NT Greens http://nt.greens.org.au/ NT Parliament http://www.nt.gov.au/lant/index.shtmlPh: 08 8946 1512Fax: 08 8941 2558Email: LA TABLE OFFICE Darwin City Council http://www.darwin.nt.gov.au/ 08 8930 0300dcc@darwin.nt.gov.au ABC RADIO http://www.abc.net.au/darwin/contact/Ph: 1300 057 222 Alice Now newspaper http://alicenow.com.au/about/contact-us Centralian Advocate newspaper…