Residents seek clarity on Kulaluk works
14 October 2025
On Saturday 27 September, senior NT officials including the Acting CEO of the Department of Logistics and Infrastructure attended a public meeting at Tudawali Park with Ostermann Street and Ludmilla residents.
The meeting was called after residents observed a massive spoon drain behind their homes, clearing in Area 3 (the Seth Chin block), and a new fence around Area 11 (the McDonald site, commercial sub-lease within the Kulaluk Crown Lease).
Residents wanted to know whether these were isolated works, or part of the staged framework in the Kulaluk–Minmarama Land Assessment Report.
Residents expressed their fear that the purpose of Stage 1 flood-mitigation infrastructure is not simply drainage management, but to enable future residential development in primary storm-surge zones.
PLan has already expressed concern that the entire 11 stages of development will never be assessed as a whole, with each stage instead proceeding as a separate development application and avoiding full environmental and statutory scrutiny.
Residents are calling for clarification of which department now holds responsibility for the Kulaluk–Minmarama Land Assessment Report, and how it relates to the Darwin Mid Suburbs Area Plan. Government officials were unable to answer residents’ questions at the meeting.