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2008-09 Budget

Regional Highlights

2008-09 Budget Regional Highlights

Regional Highlights presents an overview of key items and programs in the 2008‑09 Budget for the seven Territory regions. The paper details initiatives in service delivery, tailored specifically for each region in the areas of business, jobs and training, safer communities, schooling and health, community development, lifestyle and environment. It also includes Territory‑wide initiatives, which apply across all the regions. Important infrastructure projects are identified for each region as well as on a Territory‑wide basis. Regional Highlights complements the extensive information in the other Budget Papers by presenting budget details of particular relevance to the communities in each of the Territory’s regions.

Darwin Top End East Arnhem Palmerston Rural and Litchfield

Katherine Contents Barkly Territory-wide 2 Central Australia 5 Barkly 8 Katherine 10 East Arnhem 12 Central Australia Top End Rural 14 Palmerston and Litchfield 16 Darwin 18 2008-09 Budget

Darwin Top End East Arnhem Palmerston Rural and Litchfield Territory-wide

Katherine There are some initiatives that cannot be accurately apportioned between regions, however they are important and relevant across the Territory. Details of these initiatives are provided here, in addition to the information specific to each Barkly region in later sections.

Central Australia

Supporting Business • $1.35M for renewable energy • $0.29M to research Territory‑wide • $9.51M for surveying, mapping, projects including Solar Cities, solar crop water use efficiency imagery and valuation services to power and wind generation • $0.24M to research and improve the support the Territory’s sustainable • $1.13M for small business support growth rates of Territory cattle economic development services • $0.2M for the Economic • $5.5M to promote mining investment • $1.05M for native and improved Development Committees network and mineral exploration in the pastures research • $0.17M to assist business with Territory including Bringing Forward • $1M to promote the Territory as a government procurement issues Discovery great place to live, work and invest • $0.16M to expand markets for • $4.4M to facilitate major economic • $0.79M for a range of extension Territory livestock development projects methods to increase Territory • $2.21M for industry and trade pastoral industry knowledge Jobs and Training support • $21.11M to support and train • $0.6M for the Business and Skilled trainees and apprentices • $1.8M for veterinary laboratory Migration Strategy services providing animal health • $1M for the Remote Workforce • $0.53M for the Indigenous Economic testing to livestock industries Development Strategy which Development Strategy supports remote NTPS employees • $1.52M for entomology, plant • $0.52M for business workshops, pathology and agricultural chemistry • $0.74M to increase participation of seminars, round tables and events services for primary industries Indigenous people in the pastoral to support small-medium enterprises industry of the Territory • $0.44M for regionally based • $0.56M for 40 higher education economic development officers scholarships • $0.4M to prepare for, and Safer Communities respond to, incursions of • $8.8M for occupational health pests and diseases of and safety training for industry, plants and animals employers and employees • $0.35M for the • $5.96M for continued expansion of NT Research and the Child Abuse Taskforce Innovation Fund • $3M for payments to victims of crime • $0.3M for producers to increase and improve • $2.3M to increase remote their stock watering facilities community policing • $0.3M for Make the Switch • $1.5M for additional child protection grants for tourism businesses to use workers including the establishment sustainable energy of a Therapeutic Services team • $0.3M for the Regional Economic • $0.8M for coronial services and Development Fund related activities

2 • $0.75M for child protection reform including the new Care and Protection of Children Act 2007 • $0.5M for alcohol management plans to decrease alcohol consumption and reduce alcohol‑related harm across the regions • $0.33M for Community Justice Centre dispute resolution services • $0.3M for increased alcohol regulatory capacity • $0.23M for the specialist drug court program CREDIT (NT) • $0.22M for dry areas signage under • $2M to alcohol supply restrictions strengthen the • $0.2M to help victims to clean up or repair locks after a crime has Patient Assistance occurred Travel Scheme including • $0.16M for the Alcohol Court family escorts for patients travelling interstate and increasing the Better Schooling accommodation allowance • $5.01M for early childhood Lifestyle and • $0.91M to monitor the quality of education and children’s services Environment Territory water supplies • $3.94M for Building Better Schools • $7.55M to assist the thoroughbred • $0.5M for additional resources for to improve access, outcomes and racing industry child health care engagement of secondary students • $7.47M for the sport and recreation • $0.24M to expand the Territory • $2.68M for the Accelerated Literacy grants program Independence and Mobility Program to improve English literacy • $5.02M to facilitate and promote Equipment Scheme (TIMES) outcomes for students major sporting and cultural events • $1.61M for a range of education Community Development • $3.65M for weed, biodiversity, feral programs for remote schools as part • $28M for rental rebates for low animal, fire, visitor and cultural of Closing the Gap income families management on parks and reserves • $1.52M for community-based • $5M for one-off establishment grants • $2.63M for Community Benefit education organisations including for new local government shires Fund small grants, and gambling the Duke of Edinburgh Award • $1.4M to establish local community amelioration and research projects Scheme, Life Education Unit and boards to promote Indigenous • $2.51M for bushfire mitigation School Sport NT leadership and provide local control to assist landholders with fire • $1.5M for additional teachers in community infrastructure mitigation and prevention works remote areas • $0.6M for the Indigenous • $2.37M for sustainable management Better Health Business Development Program, of aquatic resources a grant program which assists in • $5.32M for pensioner and carer • $2.34M to support key arts establishing Indigenous owned concessions organisations businesses • $3.35M to improve core services • $2M for businesses and households • $0.16M for the Marine Ranger across hospitals including medical to respond to climate change Program in Indigenous communities imaging, a surgical dental service at • $2M to improve energy management RDH, specialist respiratory services • $61 000 for projects to develop in Government buildings and patient activity coding agriculture on Indigenous lands • $1M for library resources

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Infrastructure Highlights »» $3M to redevelop public housing unit complexes in urban »» $48.3M Strategic Indigenous Housing Infrastructure areas such as Town Flats, Nhulunbuy and Shiers Street, Program – construct housing in remote communities The Narrows across the Territory »» $2M for tailored upgrades to public housing in urban areas »» $40.33M Indigenous housing capital grants »» $1.64M for land servicing of government employee »» $24.8M for general road repairs and maintenance across housing in remote localities Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield, and Top End Rural »» $1.31M to construct general purpose public housing regions »» $1.11M to construct six self-care relocatable haemodialysis »» $18.54M to construct additional government employee facilities in remote communities housing in remote localities »» $1M capital grants for cyclone shelter upgrades in coastal »» $7.31M Stuart, Victoria and Barkly highways – upgrade communities selected sections »» $1M for improved recreational fishing infrastructure to »» $6.74M for 27 new classrooms in 24 remote schools to provide safer and more readily accessible landing and meet greater enrolments boat launching facilities »» $5.71M to upgrade police and priority housing in remote »» $0.85M to replace electricity meters with wide-mouth localities meters in remote communities »» $4.98M Roads to Recovery – selected upgrades on local »» $0.7M Black Spot Program – improve known danger areas roads on roads »» $3.76M to replace existing government employee housing »» $0.38M for security screens to improve the safety of public in remote localities housing tenants

• $1.01M in grants to promote cultural • $0.3M to support artistic work and linguistic diversity and improve created to enhance public spaces multicultural community facilities • $0.2M for a survey on the impact of • $1M to expand remote sport and recreational fishing in the Territory recreational facilities and programs • $0.17M to monitor and evaluate • $0.97M to support volunteer bushfire biological diversity brigades • $0.1M for community wildlife grants • $0.95M to ensure mining and • $0.1M for a Defence Community petroleum operations meet statutory Liaison Officer obligations for protection of the environment • $0.87M for the Environment Protection Authority • $0.81M for community support grants • $0.79M to assess proposed activities and ongoing regulation of the mining and petroleum industry • $0.5M for Water Allocation Plan implementation, regulation and compliance monitoring • $0.44M for flood forecasting • $0.39M to administer and regulate veterinary and agricultural chemicals

4 Territory-wide Central Australia The Central Australia region occupies 40 per cent of the Territory’s land area and is home to almost 19 per cent of the Territory’s population. At the time of the 2006 Census, there were about 39 600 people living in the region, 42 per cent of whom were Indigenous. Alice Springs, the main centre, has a population of 26 200. The region’s main industries include mining, pastoralism, oil and gas, tourism, defence and Indigenous arts and culture. The cattle industry accounts for around 20 per cent of the Territory’s $200 million industry. The vast majority of the Territory’s gold, and all its onshore oil and gas, is also sourced from the region. Significant tourist destinations include Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon and the West MacDonnell Ranges. The strong Indigenous arts and culture industry is an important tourist attraction as well as a source of Indigenous employment.

Supporting Business • $58 000 to support research on • $2.55M for courts to administer • $3.1M for the Territory Discoveries reclaimed water for horticulture justice for regional and remote call centre providing tourism development projects communities. The Supreme Court sits at Alice Springs for 32 weeks a bookings and information on behalf Jobs and Training of operators across the Territory year, and magistrates sit in Papunya, • $14.77M for Charles Darwin Mutitjulu, Yuendumu, Ti Tree, • $1M for the global University, Batchelor Institute and Hermannsburg and Docker River marketing campaign leveraging from other service providers to deliver the National Landscapes program vocational education, training and • $2.15M for Alice Springs community and building tourism visitation to tertiary programs corrections, including successful Central Australia reintegration into the community • $1.23M to transition from CDEP to • $0.9M to provide new geoscience real jobs • $0.6M to support Family data and promote investment under Responsibility Agreements and • $0.92M for Indigenous Response Bringing Forward Discovery Orders under the Youth Justice Act Programs leading to employment • $0.62M for tourism marketing, • $0.58M for Aranda House juvenile • $0.46M for capital equipment for the industry improvement and visitor holding facility Desert Peoples Precinct information services • $0.55M to Tangentyere Council for • $0.19M for horticultural job-ready • $0.6M for the Alice Springs Town an improved Safe Families program training for local Indigenous people Council to assist in providing an in the Ti Tree region • $0.35M to Tangentyere Council to urban bus service provide return to country information • $0.16M for driver training and • $0.44M for services to ensure and referral services to homeless licensing for 16 to 18 year olds Territory livestock and horticulture and itinerant people • $50 000 to replace the Motorcyclist produce meet necessary standards • $0.3M to develop a 12-month pilot Education Training and Licensing for domestic and export outlets of an Aboriginal child protection and (METAL) fleet of motorcycles • $0.4M for Arid Zone, Old Man Plains family support service which will and Ti Tree Research Farms as Safer Communities support vulnerable children and their bases for primary industry research • $40.72M for police, fire and families and extension programs emergency services in police and • $0.26M for licensing identification • $0.26M for the Territory Business fire stations, emergency services systems in takeaway liquor outlets and volunteer units, including Centre to assist businesses with • $0.25M for land titles, births, deaths $0.66M for the remote and highway advice and information and marriages registration and traffic patrols • $0.14M to develop technology public trustee services • $26.06M for safe and secure to increase arid zone pastoral • $0.2M for the continued expansion custody at Alice Springs Correctional profitability, and increase Aboriginal of Sexual Assault Referral Centre Centre, including rehabilitation and involvement in the industry services care of adult offenders

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Infrastructure Highlights »» $2.22M Outback Way – continue »» $0.98M to connect Wallace Rockhole »» $26.45M for major electricity selected improvements, including to the Hermannsburg power grid infrastructure in Alice Springs Kata Tjuta to Docker River »» $0.8M Nyirripi – upgrade aerodrome »» $12.5M Alice Springs Hospital – »» $1.65M for repairs and maintenance »» $0.75M Kintore Road – selected continuing upgrades along the upgrades between Papunya and »» $13.9M Alice Springs and Darwin »» $1.5M West MacDonnell National Mt Liebig Road Park – Red Centre Way Interpretive Correctional Centres – new »» $0.52M for repairs and maintenance Centre accommodation along the »» $1.43M for works along the Stuart »» $10.79M Desert Peoples Centre for »» $0.51M Sexual Assault Referral Highway blocks 2, 6, 7 and administration and Centre – complete fitout precinct headworks »» $1.3M to refurbish office space in »» $0.5M Finke Road – to Titjikala and »» $9.3M for general road repairs and Katherine and Alice Springs for extra to Kulgera – selected upgrading maintenance across the region community corrections staff »» $0.5M Willowra – expand power »» $4M Pine Hill – gravelled access »» $1.3M Sandover Highway – seal station road to the horticultural district between Arlparra and Urapuntja and »» $0.5M Papunya power station – »» $4M Santa Teresa Road – selected other works increase fuel storage and bunding upgrading »» $1.27M for repairs and maintenance »» $0.5M to improve remote classroom »» $3.5M Maryvale Road – further along the acoustics in East Arnhem, Barkly, upgrading of targeted sections »» $1.25M Yuendumu – improved and Central Australia regions »» $3.25M – continue school facilities »» $0.36M urban roads landscaping in selected upgrades of targeted »» $1.1M Papunya – upgrade sections to improve access aerodrome Alice Springs and Darwin »» $3M to upgrade police and priority »» $1.1M for upgrades at Alcoota, »» $0.3M to improve air conditioning housing in remote locations Willowra, Titjikala, Yuendumu and and capacity at Acacia Hill School »» $2.25M Ross Park Primary School – other remote schools »» $0.3M for Yulara Drive streetlighting new and continuing upgrade works »» $1.1M for safer level crossings at »» $0.25M for street lighting on the »» $2M Arlparra – construct new middle Bradshaw Drive, Ilparpa Road and south of Ilparpa school The Gardens Road Road

• $0.17M for a domestic violence legal • $8.24M for middle years at Alice • $0.67M for new mobile preschools and advocacy service Springs and Anzac Hill Middle for children in remote communities • $92 000 for regional justice project Schools • $0.49M for Commonwealth targeted officers to increase public safety and • $4.21M for Indigenous Education programs including literacy, reduce alcohol consumption and Strategic Initiatives programs numeracy and special learning alcohol-related harm • $3.09M for student and school needs program and the National • $70 000 for CCTV to reduce support including curricula for Drug Education Strategy antisocial behaviour in Alice Springs schools and special needs support • $0.33M for community stakeholder partnerships in education Better Schooling • $1.6M for isolated student education • $27.33M for early childhood and at Alice Springs School of the Air • $0.33M for the Back to School primary education in seven urban • $1.59M for open learning programs scheme to assist parents with the schools and support for students and cost of essential school items • $24.64M to assist non‑government teachers in music and language • $0.23M for programs to support schools • $0.96M for school buses and special students with a disability • $20.86M for early childhood, needs transport for students • $0.19M for new classrooms primary and secondary education in • $0.9M for Building Better Schools • $0.12M for extra school counsellors 29 remote schools to improve access, outcomes and • $0.11M for Territory student • $8.46M for senior years at engagement of secondary students assistance travel schemes and Centralian Senior Secondary • $0.67M for Aboriginal Islander remote teacher housing College education workers in schools

6 Central Australia Better Health • $131.18M for acute care services, including road and aero-retrieval transport services and patient travel • $51.2M for non-acute health and community services in the region • $2.94M for additional beds at Alice Springs Hospital • $2.07M for home and community care services for those with a • $3.96M disability and the frail aged for the Alice Springs Desert • $1M for a satellite dialysis unit in Park Alice Springs to provide services for up to 32 extra patients • $3.39M for programs, facilities and collections at • $0.6M to expand Hospital in the the Araluen Centre Home (HITH) services at Alice Springs Hospital, and increase to a • $1.94M for weed, biodiversity, feral seven day a week operation animal, fire, visitor and cultural • $0.28M to introduce the Community management on parks and reserves • $0.15M to Midwifery Program in the region • $0.64M for public library services in develop joint park • $0.2M to expand the allied health Alice Springs, Uluru, Anmatjere and management arrangements service at Alice Springs Hospital Lhere Artepe with traditional owners • $0.13M for an additional psychiatry • $0.52M for cinema and film • $0.15M for Hermannsburg historic registrar position in Alice Springs to industries township urban enhancement work with Congress and rural and • $0.42M for an Indigenous Allstars • $0.15M for Santa Teresa historic remote communities NAB Cup football match and areas urban enhancement Community Development premiership match in Darwin and • $0.15M to maintain herbarium one in Alice Springs in 2009 • $9.2M for HomeNorth schemes to plant collections and associated assist low to middle income earners • $0.41M to manage threatened information services purchase a home species in Alice Springs and Barkly • $0.13M for bushfire mitigation • $0.93M for Desert Knowledge • $0.4M to support key arts control to assist landholders with fire Australia to manage the Precinct organisations mitigation and prevention works • $0.36M for development • $0.36M for the Strehlow Research • $0.12M for the Olive Pink Botanic coordinators to assist in developing Centre collection Gardens regional local government • $0.36M to monitor and advise • $0.12M for vegetation mapping in • $0.17M for the Desert Knowledge pastoralists on land and grazing Alice Springs and Barkly Cooperative Research Centre conditions • $0.12M for feral animal research and • $0.1M for the Moving Alice Ahead • $0.2M to advise landholders on control Planning Forum weed management • $0.12M to support volunteer bushfire • $0.1M to support the Hermannsburg/ • $0.21M for repairs to Barrow Creek brigades Western Aranda Tourism Telegraph Station • $0.11M for wildfire suppression Development Plan • $0.19M for historical research strategies in critical risk areas Lifestyle and Environment through NT Archives • $0.1M for Cool Communities in • $6M for renewable energy projects • $0.17M for regional museums Darwin and Alice Springs and rebates and for industry support • $0.18M for the Alice Desert, Alice • $0.1M for the Junior Ranger to develop technologies and skills Springs and Beanie festivals program

Central Australia 7 2008-09 Budget Barkly The Barkly region extends along the Stuart Highway from Barrow Creek to Elliott and east across the Barkly Tablelands to Queensland. The region covers about 21 per cent of the total Northern Territory land area. The main centre is Tennant Creek, with a population of around 3300. About 66 per cent of the region’s population of 6200 are Indigenous, and the region’s median age is 27 years. Pastoral and mining-related activities are the major contributors to the regional economy. This includes the Bootu Creek mine, which commenced mineral exports in mid 2006, and the Peko Rehabilitation Project near Tennant Creek. The cattle industry in the region accounts for about 30 per cent of the total Territory cattle industry.

Supporting Business Jobs and Training • $1.09M to transition from CDEP to • $0.46M for services to ensure • $2.57M for Charles Darwin real jobs Territory livestock meet necessary University, Batchelor Institute of Safer Communities standards for domestic and export Indigenous Tertiary Education and • $7.06M for police, fire and outlets other service providers to deliver emergency services in four police vocational education and training • $0.25M for new generation stations, one fire station and geoscience data and to promote • $1.02M for Indigenous Response five volunteer groups investment under Bringing Forward Programs leading to employment, • $1.2M for Tennant Creek community Discovery including the Regional and Remote corrections including successful Training Centre • $0.2M for the Territory Business reintegration into the community Centre to assist businesses with advice and information Infrastructure Highlights »» $0.53M to reseal various sections of • $0.14M for tourism marketing and »» $4.51M for general road repairs and the industry improvement maintenance across Barkly region »» $0.53M for resealing, linemarking and shoulder repair works on • $0.1M for a local tourism »» $2.3M for continuing fire safety various sections of the Barkly development officer upgrades at Tennant Creek Hospital Highway »» $1.91M to re-gravel sections of • $90 000 to the Battery Hill Mining Calvert Road, Wollogorang Road, »» $0.5M to improve remote classroom Centre for visitor information Ranken Road and the Barkly Stock acoustics in East Arnhem, Barkly services Route and Central Australia regions »» $1.5M for resealing, linemarking »» $0.43M to replace electricity and shoulder repair works on generator Set 1 in Elliott with higher various sections of Stuart Highway capacity engine and generator »» $1.44M to replace electricity »» $0.32M to install and commission generator Set 15 in Tennant Creek power station standby diesel units at »» $1.3M for a new sobering‑up shelter Tennant Creek in Tennant Creek »» $0.25M to upgrade the Tennant »» $1M to replace Cabbage Gum Creek main works depot including pump station sewerage works and perimeter »» $1M for new senior years facilities security fencing at Alekarange »» $0.11M to upgrade the Ali Curung »» $0.76M for upgrades along the and Barrow Creek airstrips »» $0.1M to upgrade the Elliott sport »» $0.54M to extend culverts on the and recreation centre Carpentaria, Stuart and Barkly »» $80 000 to upgrade the Ali Curung highways Health Centre

8 • $0.3M to develop a 12-month pilot • $0.96M for programs to support of an Aboriginal child protection and students with a disability family support service which will • $0.75M for student and support vulnerable children and their school support including families curricula for schools • $0.16M for courts to administer and special needs justice for regional and remote support communities including Elliott and • $0.47M for Ali Curung. Registry services from Territory student Tennant Creek courthouse assistance travel • $0.1M to expand Sexual Assault schemes and Referral Centre services remote teacher • $0.1M to work directly with at-risk housing children and families in their homes, • $0.33M for new mobile linking them to other services preschools for children in including the Interventions for Family remote communities Violence program in Elliott • $0.13M for Aboriginal Islander • $92 000 for regional justice project education workers in schools officers, to increase public safety • $0.11M for Building Better Schools and reduce alcohol consumption to improve access, outcomes and and alcohol‑related harm engagement of secondary students • $90 000 for local management • $55 000 for the Back to School Lifestyle and Environment of gambling, liquor and related scheme to assist parents with the • $1.18M for weed, biodiversity, feral activities cost of essential school items animal, fire, visitor and cultural • $60 000 to review liquor supply • $45 000 for additional classrooms management of parks and reserves restrictions in Tennant Creek Better Health • $0.41M to manage threatened • $55 000 for lighting projects in urban species in Alice Springs and Barkly • $12.32M for acute care services, parks including road and aero-retrieval • $0.4M for a combined Katherine and Better Schooling transport and patient travel Barkly marketing campaign targeted at the tourist drive market • $6.3M for early childhood, primary • $5.81M for non-acute health and and secondary education in community services in the region • $0.17M for environmental monitoring 11 remote schools of operational and closed mines in • $0.55M to provide home and the region • $4.62M for early childhood and community care services for those primary education at Tennant Creek with a disability and the frail aged • $0.15M for public library services in Primary School Tennant Creek and Elliott • $3.01M for senior years education at Community Development • $0.36M for development • $0.12M for vegetation mapping in Tennant Creek High School coordinators to assist in developing Alice Springs and Barkly • $2.61M for middle years education regional local government • $0.1M to advise landholders on at Tennant Creek High School • $0.14M to facilitate Indigenous weed management • $2.15M for Indigenous Education employment in the pastoral industry • $45 000 for bushfire mitigation Strategic Initiatives programs to • $0.1M to manage Crown land and control to assist landholders with fire improve Indigenous education associated buildings mitigation and prevention works • $2.02M for Commonwealth targeted • $30 000 for the Barkly Region • $10 000 towards the Brunette programs including literacy, Tourism Development Plan Downs races numeracy and special learning needs and the National Drug Education Strategy

Barkly 9 2008-09 Budget Katherine The Katherine region extends from the Ord Bonaparte area in the west to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the east. Katherine is the main centre, with about 9000 people. At the time of the 2006 Census, the region’s population was about 18 600 people with a median age of 27 years, and 55 per cent were Indigenous. Major industries include tourism, mining, pastoralism, farming and horticulture. It includes the $110 million project at McArthur River mine near Borroloola to change operations from underground mining to open cut. Modern road and rail infrastructure, and strategic location, position Katherine to develop as a regional freight hub servicing industries in both the Territory and Kimberley region. RAAF Base Tindal is located near Katherine, and Nitmiluk Gorge, Edith Falls and Mataranka attract tourists to the region.

• $0.26M to support plant industry Infrastructure Highlights development »» $35.81M for continuing upgrade »» $2M to expand the Katherine • $0.25M for Katherine Town Council work and new bridges along the wastewater treatment plant visitor information services »» $1.6M to construct new power »» $8.33M for general road repairs and station at Bulman • $0.16M for tourism marketing and maintenance across the region industry improvement »» $1.3M for a Katherine Sobering-up »» $5M continuing works at Borroloola Shelter • $0.15M for research on the to replace and extend education »» $1.15M to improve and expand reproductive performance of female facilities Ngukurr education facilities cattle herds in northern Australia »» $2.6M for power and sewerage »» $1.14M to complete the new Pigeon • $0.1M for mango industry support works in Borroloola Hole aerodrome • $0.1M for a local tourism industry »» Repairs and upgrades: »» $1.13M to connect Rittarangu to the development officer ––$2.02M for Stuart Highway Ngukurr power grid ––$1.41M for Victoria Highway Jobs and Training »» $2M for electricity infrastructure in • $7.56M for Charles Darwin ––$1.24M for Katherine University, Batchelor Institute and ––$0.87M for Central Arnhem »» $0.91M to remodel and extend other service providers to deliver Highway Minyerri and Bulla Health Centres vocational education and training ––$0.82M for »» $0.3M for extra classroom space at • $0.97M to transition from CDEP to ––$0.73M for Carpentaria Highway Bulman School real jobs »» $2M to improve water supply at »» $80 000 to upgrade the dental clinic Mataranka at Ngukurr Health Clinic • $0.93M for Indigenous Response Programs leading to employment, including the Regional and Remote Supporting Business Training Centre • $1M for Katherine and Victoria River Research Stations as bases • $30 500 for driver training and for primary industry research and licensing for 16 to 18 year olds extension programs Safer Communities • $0.88M for services to ensure • $18.6M for police, fire and Territory livestock and horticulture emergency services in nine police produce meet necessary standards stations, one fire station and for domestic and export outlets 12 volunteer groups, including • $0.26M for the Territory Business $0.66M for remote and highway Centre to assist businesses with traffic patrols advice and information • $1.64M for Katherine community corrections 10 • $0.76M for courts to administer • $2.3M for support services including • $0.12M for the Marine Ranger justice for regional and remote curricula for schools and special Program in Indigenous communities communities including Beswick, needs support to monitor illegal activity, protect Ngukurr, Timber Creek, Kalkarindji, • $2.14M for non‑government schools sacred sites, control feral animals Borroloola and Lajamanu and noxious plants, and education • $1.66M for school buses and special • $0.35M for Mission Australia to needs student transport, including Lifestyle and Environment provide return to country, information services to RAAF Base Tindal • $5.91M for weed, biodiversity, feral and referral services to homeless • $1.38M for Commonwealth targeted animal, fire, visitor and cultural and itinerant people programs including literacy, management on parks and reserves • $0.3M to develop a 12-month pilot numeracy and special learning • $1M for surface/ground water of an Aboriginal child protection and needs program and the National studies and improved monitoring in family support service to support Drug Education Strategy vulnerable children and their families Katherine and Top End mining areas • $0.61M for Building Better Schools • $0.81M to develop joint park • $0.26M for identification systems in to improve access, outcomes and management arrangements with public takeaway liquor outlets engagement of secondary students traditional owners • $0.25M for the Peace at Home • $0.66M for programs to support • $0.42M for public library services project to deal with domestic students with a disability violence and child protection issues in Katherine, Pine Creek, • $0.32M for Territory student Lajamanu, Borroloola, Mataranka, • $0.2M to establish Sexual Assault assistance travel schemes and Yugul Mangi and Nyirranggulung Referral Centre services remote teacher housing • $0.4M for a combined Katherine and • $0.2M for support to victims of • $0.2M for Aboriginal Islander crime, witnesses and their families Barkly tourism drive campaign education workers in schools through the criminal justice process • $0.4M to advise landholders on • $0.18M for the Back to School • $0.1M for management of liquor, weed management scheme to assist parents with the gambling and related activities cost of essential school items • $0.34M to monitor and assess the • $0.1M for family violence Daly River catchment in Katherine • $50 000 for regional senior studies intervention services for men at and Top End Rural hostels to support education for Borroloola children in remote communities • $0.28M to monitor and advise on • $92 000 for regional justice project pastoral land and grazing conditions • $24 000 for new classrooms officers, to increase public safety • $0.24M for volunteer bushfire and reduce alcohol consumption Better Health brigades and alcohol-related harm • $27.13M for acute care services, including road and aero-retrieval • $0.17M for bushfire mitigation and Better Schooling transport and patient travel wildfire suppression strategies • $23.15M for early childhood, • $0.15M for research and control of primary and secondary education in • $20.73M for non-acute health and wild dogs, horses and donkeys 20 remote schools community services in the region • $0.1M for Pine Creek urban • $14.57M for early childhood and • $0.13M to expand the psychiatry enhancement primary education in urban schools registrar training program • $5.31M for senior years education at • $71 000 for four transition care beds • $82 000 to monitor surface and groundwater sustainability at Katherine High School Community Development operating and closed mine sites • $4.48M for middle years education • $1.5M for HomeNorth schemes to at Katherine High School assist low to middle income earners • $60 000 for crocodile management and associated activities • $3.51M for Indigenous Education to purchase a home Strategic Initiatives programs to • $0.36M for development • $40 000 to support arts and festivals improve Indigenous education coordinators to assist in developing including Milperri, Flying Fox, Barunga, Merepin and Katherine • $2.54M for isolated student regional local government education through the Katherine • $50 000 to facilitate Indigenous Country Music Festivals School of the Air employment in the pastoral industry • $40 000 for regional museums Katherine 11 2008-09 Budget East Arnhem The East Arnhem region covers East Arnhem Land and includes the neighbouring Groote Eylandt and Elcho Island, with the major population centres of Nhulunbuy and Alyangula servicing major mines in the region. Access for travellers and freight is mainly by air or sea, as roads to the region cross very difficult terrain. At the time of the 2006 Census, the East Arnhem region had a population of 15 900, of whom 64 per cent were Indigenous. The main centre, Nhulunbuy, has a population of around 4400. The median age in the region is 27 years. Mining production, including alumina/bauxite production on the Gove Peninsula and manganese on Groote Eylandt, is the region’s main economic activity. Other industries include buffalo farming, aquaculture, and commercial and recreational fishing. Traditional Indigenous cultural experiences, Indigenous art, and the remote and natural wilderness, attract many tourists to the region.

Supporting Business • $0.2M for an extra ranger each year • $6.08M for early childhood and • $0.16M for the Indigenous Tourism from 2007 in Galiwin’ku, Lanhapuy primary education at Nhulunbuy Hub to support emerging Indigenous Homelands, Groote Eylandt and Primary School Nhulunbuy under the Indigenous entrepreneurs • $3.51M for Indigenous Education Ranger Group Development • $20 000 to assist tourism operators Strategic Initiatives programs to Program gain accreditation improve Indigenous education • $0.14M to transition from CDEP to • $2.96M for senior years education at Jobs and Training real jobs • $6.67M for Charles Darwin Nhulunbuy High School Safer Communities University, Batchelor Institute of • $2.52M for middle years education • $7.64M for police, fire and Indigenous Tertiary Education and at Nhulunbuy High School other service providers to deliver emergency services in two police vocational education and training stations, one fire station and • $2.11M for student and school five volunteer groups support services including curricula • $0.74M for Indigenous Response for schools and special needs Programs leading to employment • $0.41M for Groote Eylandt and support including the Regional and Remote Nhulunbuy community corrections, Training Centre including successful reintegration • $1.75M for assistance to into the community non‑government schools • $0.16M for courts to administer • $1.66M for Building Better Schools justice for regional and remote to improve access, outcomes and communities including Alyangula, engagement of secondary students Nhulunbuy and Galiwin’ku. Registry services from the Nhulunbuy • $1.5M for Commonwealth targeted courthouse programs including literacy, numeracy and special learning • $0.12M to implement needs and the National Drug licensing identification systems in Education Strategy public takeaway liquor outlets • $92 000 for regional justice project • $1.1M for school buses and special officers, to increase public safety needs transport for students in and reduce alcohol consumption and Nhulunbuy, Jabiru and Groote alcohol‑related harm Eylandt Better Schooling • $0.71M for programs to support • $34.7M for early childhood, primary students with a disability and secondary education in • $0.5M for new mobile preschools for 11 remote schools children in remote communities 12 • $0.35M for Territory student Top End Rural and East Arnhem assistance travel schemes and regions remote teacher housing • $0.27M for environmental • $0.16M for extra school counsellors monitoring of both • $0.16M for the Back to School operational and closed scheme to assist parents with the mines in the region cost of essential school items • $0.14M to protect • $0.1M for community stakeholder wildlife in Darwin, partnerships in education Palmerston and Litchfield, Top End Rural • $0.1M for Aboriginal Islander and East Arnhem regions education workers in schools through monitoring trade Better Health and increasing community • $19.64M for acute care services, awareness of wildlife management including road and aero-retrieval • $0.13M for weed, biodiversity, feral transport services and the Patient animal, fire, visitor and cultural Assistance Travel Scheme management on parks and reserves • $20 000 • $13.08M for non-acute health and • $75 000 for bushfire mitigation to manage community services in the region control to assist landholders with fire threatened species • $0.35M to provide home and mitigation and prevention works • $15 000 for the Galiwin’ku Gumurr community care services for those • $60 000 to monitor and evaluate Marthakal festival with a disability and the frail aged biological diversity • $10 000 for the Milingimbi Gatjirrk Community Development • $51 000 for the Garma Festival Cultural Festival • $0.36M for development • $20 000 for strategic planning and • $10 000 for the Yindi Bungul Festival coordinators to assist in developing management of parks and reserves at Ramingining and facilitating regional local government • $0.12M for the Marine Ranger Infrastructure Highlights Program in Indigenous communities »» $5.85M for ongoing construction of the new police station at Galiwin’ku to monitor illegal activity, protect »» $4.5M for a new Milingimbi health centre sacred sites, control feral animals »» $3M to upgrade police and priority housing in remote locations and noxious plants, and community education »» $2M to convert the Yilpara Homeland Centre to a school to provide additional learning and teaching space • $50 000 for tourism infrastructure in »» $1.55M to replace the current demountable block with four new classrooms at East Arnhem Land such as signage, Yirrkala Community Education Centre car parking and toilet facilities »» $1.28M to upgrade Milyakburra aerodrome (Bickerton Island) Lifestyle and Environment »» $1.25M to expand capacity at Ramingining Community Education Centre • $0.41M for crocodile management, surveys, signage and community »» $1.17M for general road repairs and maintenance across the region awareness campaigns in Darwin, »» $0.99M to replace the emergency power generator at Gove District Hospital Palmerston and Litchfield, Top End »» $0.65M to regravel various sections of and Rural and East Arnhem regions Maningrida Road • $0.36M for public library services »» $0.5M to improve remote classroom acoustics in East Arnhem, Barkly and in Nhulunbuy, Galiwin’ku, Central Australia regions Milingimbi, Ramingining, Alyangula, »» $0.3M for upgrade works on Central Arnhem Road Umbakumba and Angurugu »» $0.3M for a computer room at Nhulunbuy High School • $0.35M for marine biodiversity »» $0.3M for tree clearing at the Ramingining and Milyakburra aerodromes conservation and management in Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield, »» $0.16M to upgrade Numbulwar Health Centre

East Arnhem 13 2008-09 Budget Top End Rural The Top End Rural region covers the area south of Litchfield Shire, over to East Arnhem and south to the Katherine region. It encompasses Jabiru, Wadeye and Batchelor, many small communities and pastoral and agricultural properties. At the time of the 2006 Census, about 16 000 people lived in the region, 73 per cent of whom were Indigenous. Mining is a major economic activity, including Ranger uranium mine near Jabiru, the Browns oxide project near Batchelor, gold mining at the Union Reefs plant near Pine Creek and Tom’s Gully, and iron ore from the Frances Creek mine. Other important industries include cattle, farming, horticulture and agriculture, supported by the Coastal Plains and Douglas Daly research farms. There is forestry and mineral sand mining on the Tiwi Islands and hard wood forestry plantations at Douglas Daly. Tourism and recreational fishing are also industries in the region.

Supporting Business • $2.5M to transition from CDEP to • $0.75M for Commonwealth targeted real jobs programs including literacy, • $1M for the Kakadu global tourism numeracy and special learning marketing campaign Safer Communities needs program and the National • $7.16M for police, fire and • $0.97M for animal health services Drug Education Strategy to ensure Territory livestock meet emergency services in nine police • $0.4M for Building Better Schools to necessary standards for domestic stations, one fire station and improve secondary student outcomes and export outlets 12 volunteer groups • $0.36M for programs to support • $0.96M for Douglas Daly Research • $0.52M for Wadeye, Jabiru and students with a disability Farm as the base for delivery of Tiwi Islands community corrections, primary industry research and including successful reintegration • $0.17M for Territory student extension programs into the community assistance travel schemes and remote teacher housing • $0.32M to support plant industry • $0.15M for courts to administer development justice for regional and remote • $0.13M for the Back to School communities including Wadeye, Daly scheme to assist parents with the • $0.23M for continued service to River and Jabiru cost of essential school items support the Territory mango industry • $0.1M for family violence • $0.1M for extra school counsellors • $0.13M to support forestry intervention services in Milikapiti development in the Territory • $67 000 for Aboriginal Islander education workers in schools • $0.15M to provide new geoscience Better Schooling data and promote investment under • $25.17M for early childhood, • $50 000 for regional senior studies Bringing Forward Discovery primary and secondary education in hostels to support education for 18 remote schools children in remote communities • $50 000 to develop a Best Practice Manual for the buffalo industry • $9.39M for assistance to • $24 000 for additional classrooms non‑government schools Better Health Jobs and Training • $2.22M for Indigenous Education • $2.62M for Charles Darwin • $30.81M for non-acute health and Strategic Initiatives programs University, Batchelor Institute and community services in the region other service providers to deliver • $1.15M for student and school • $1.06M for home and community vocational education and training support including curricula for care services for those with a schools and special needs support • $0.47M for Indigenous Response disability and the frail aged Programs leading to employment • $1.1M for school buses and special • $0.13M for an additional psychiatry including the Regional and Remote needs transport for students in registrar to work with rural and Training Centre Nhulunbuy, Jabiru and Groote remote communities in the Top End Eylandt

14 • $0.35M for marine biodiversity Infrastructure Highlights conservation and management »» $5.83M Port Keats Road, stage 2 across the Top End »» $4.4M to upgrade Wangi Falls and other visitor facilities • $0.34M to monitor and assess the »» $3.06M to improve level crossing safety at Fountain Head Road, Leonino Daly River catchment in Katherine Road, Elizabeth River Boat ramp and Kakadu Highway and Top End Rural regions »» $3.1M to continue work on the new Wadeye health clinic • $0.33M for wildfire suppression »» $2.2M to upgrade stream crossings on the and Nauiyu strategies in critical risk areas access roads • $0.24M to develop joint park »» $2M Palumpa – reseal airstrip management arrangements with »» $2M for a Marrakai Zone Substation to meet growing electricity demand traditional owners »» $1.64M Peppimenarti – reseal airstrip • $0.18M to operate Window on the »» $1.5M for the McMinns Tank additional water storage capacity Wetlands »» $1.5M Minjilang – upgrade to all-weather aerodrome • $0.18M for bushfire mitigation »» $1.5M Fog Bay Road – upgrade and seal between and control to assist landholders with fire Namarada Drive mitigation and prevention works »» $1.1M to complete upgrade of Warruwi aerodrome • $0.14M for public library services »» $1M for ten turn around points and bus bays in rural areas in Jabiru, Wadeye, Peppimenarti, »» $0.8M rural arterial roads such as the Coomalie and Tiwi Islands »» $0.52M for Arnhem Highway repair works at Mary River Bridge • $0.14M for research and control of »» $0.5M for minor new works at Nganmarriyanga School feral cats and wild dogs, horses and »» $0.5M for recreational fishing infrastructure in Top End Rural, Palmerston and donkeys Litchfield regions • $0.14M to protect wildlife across the »» $0.44M to replace elevated water storage tanks in Daly River Top End by monitoring trade and »» $0.39M for minor new works at Milikapiti, Pularumpi, Jabiru, Belyuen and increasing community awareness Peppimenarti schools »» $0.35M for upgrade works at Peppimenarti, Palumpi and Nguiu health centres • $0.12M to support volunteer bushfire brigades »» $0.25M for Wadeye main street beautification »» $0.1M for Pine Creek beautification • $70 000 for fire management »» $80 000 to extend the airstrip away from the hills at Eva Valley projects to offset greenhouse gases • $10 000 for the Gunbalanya Cultural Community Development • $0.95M for weed, biodiversity, feral Open Day • $0.36M for development animal, fire, visitor and cultural coordinators to assist in developing management on parks and regional local government reserves • $0.24M for the Marine Ranger • $0.71M to support Program in Indigenous communities volunteer bushfire to monitor illegal activity, protect brigades sacred sites, and control feral • $0.45M to monitor animals and noxious plants surface and ground • $0.1M for approach lighting at Daly water at operating and River airstrip closed mine sites in the region • $50 000 for tourism signage and carparking at Daly River • $0.4M to advise landholders on weed management Lifestyle and Environment • $0.41M for crocodile management, • $1M for surface/ground water surveys, signage and community studies and improved monitoring in awareness in coastal areas Katherine and Top End mining areas

Top End Rural 15 2008-09 Budget Palmerston and Litchfield The region encompasses the city of Palmerston and the Litchfield Shire, including East Arm and Robertson Barracks. The area extends east across Cape Hotham Forestry Reserve, following the Adelaide River south to the Darwin River Dam and across to Wickham Point. The region has been growing strongly, with nearly 5 per cent growth over 2006-07. At the time of the 2006 Census, there were 42 400 people in the region with more than 25 000 living in Palmerston. Industry in the region includes LNG production at Wickham Point, cattle and crocodile farming, mango and tropical fruit farming, other horticulture, aquaculture and defence. Recreational fishing is an important tourism activity, in this and other Top End regions. There is also significant transport and logistics infrastructure including East Arm Wharf, Darwin Business Park and the passenger and freight terminals for the Adelaide to Darwin railway. Development in the region continues, with relatively strong residential construction.

Supporting Business • $11.15M for police, fire and • $2.59M for Indigenous Education • $2.26M to provide strategic industrial emergency services at one police Strategic Initiatives programs to land at East Arm for developments station, one fire station, a combined improve Indigenous education associated with the port, rail, police and fire station and seven • $2.11M for Commonwealth targeted defence and the oil and gas industry volunteer groups programs including literacy, • $0.73M for a range of programs • $4.11M to provide safe and secure numeracy and special learning including interstate quarantine and juvenile detention services at needs program and the National grower accreditation and certification Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre, Drug Education Strategy to ensure Territory horticulture including rehabilitation and care of • $1M for programs to support produce meets necessary standards young offenders students with a disability for domestic and export outlets • $1.22M for Palmerston community • $0.5M for early childhood and • $0.56M for Coastal Plains and corrections including successful primary education at Middle Point Beatrice Hill Research Farms as reintegration into the community • $0.49M for Territory student bases for primary industry research • $0.36M for Larrakia Nation assistance travel schemes and extension programs Aboriginal Corporation to provide • $0.41M for Aboriginal Islander return to country information and Jobs and Training education workers in schools referral services to homeless and • $8.83M for Charles Darwin itinerant people • $0.34M for the Back to School University, Batchelor Institute of scheme to assist parents with the Indigenous Tertiary Education and Better Schooling cost of essential school items other service providers to deliver • $47.86M for early childhood and • $0.28M for Building Better Schools vocational education, training and primary education in 11 schools tertiary programs to improve access, outcomes and • $16.31M for assistance to engagement of secondary students • $0.19M for driver training and non‑government schools licensing for 16 to 18 year olds • $0.27M for community stakeholder • $11.8M for senior years education partnerships in education • $97 000 for Indigenous Response at Palmerston High School and Programs leading to employment Taminmin High School Better Health • $2.65M for non-acute health and • $9.93M for middle years education Safer Communities community services • $34.52M for safe and secure at Palmerston High School and custodial services at Darwin Taminmin High School • $1M for acute care services, including road and aero-retrieval Correctional Centre including • $3.22M for support services transport services and patient travel rehabilitation and care of adult including curricula for schools and offenders special needs support

16 Infrastructure Highlights »» $6.5M for increased pipeline capacity »» $1M for road access to the Defence »» $89M to extend in the Palmerston area Support Precinct from to the Stuart »» $5.5M to raise Darwin River Dam by »» $0.55M for traffic management Highway 1.3m to increase its capacity improvements to Arnhem Highway at »» $4.6M to complete works for the new »» $60.2M for East Arm Wharf: Humpty Doo and Freds Pass East Arm boat ramp including land ––overland conveyor to improve access »» $0.52M for regravelling at various bulk ship loading operation and locations on Fog Bay, Oolloo and environmental and traffic safety »» $2.5M for subdivision and earthworks within the former Trade Gunn Point roads ––reclamation of land and additional Development Zone hardstand »» $0.5M for improved recreational »» $2M for industrial wastewater ––complete the security upgrade fishing infrastructure in Top End treatment facilities for the East Arm Rural and Palmerston and Litchfield »» $9.8M for additional power supply in precinct the Palmerston area regions »» $1.5M Fogg Dam Conservation »» $9.5M for headworks for new Reserve – reconstruct boardwalk »» $0.5M for the Humpty Doo bus Rosebery primary and middle and wetlands lookout as part of the interchange schools Monsoon Forest Walk »» $0.25M to improve traffic flow and »» $9M for the Wickham Point gas »» $1.5M to reseal various sections of safety at Freds Pass Road and pipeline interconnect to Darwin LNG the Kakadu and Arnhem highways Arnhem Highway intersection plant »» $1M to improve safety and traffic »» $0.15M for the Stuart Highway – »» $8.2M for further work at Weddell flow at Girraween/Henning Road power station intersection Coolalinga landscaping stage 2 »» $7M to continuing headworks for »» $1M for a residential care unit at »» $0.1M for works to address safer Bellamack subdivision Bees Creek level crossings on Wishart Road

Community Development • $0.35M for marine biodiversity and East Arnhem regions through • $11.2M for HomeNorth schemes to conservation and management in monitoring trade and increasing assist low to middle income earners Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield, community awareness of wildlife to purchase a home Top End Rural and East Arnhem management regions • $0.44M to manage Crown land and • $42 000 for signage and displays in associated buildings • $0.25M to eradicate cabomba weed parks and reserves in the Darwin River Lifestyle and Environment • $20 000 to share traditional • $0.19M to develop joint park knowledge on biodiversity • $3.96M for the Territory Wildlife Park management arrangements conservation • $2.58M for weed, biodiversity, feral between traditional owners and the animal, fire, visitor and cultural Parks and Wildlife Service management on parks and reserves • $0.15M to remediate • $0.75M to monitor and advise disturbed areas in the pastoralists on land and grazing upper reaches of conditions Mitchell Creek, • $0.6M to maintain herbarium Palmerston plant collections and associated • $0.14M for information services research and • $0.44M for public library services in control of wild Palmerston and Litchfield dogs, horses and donkeys • $0.41M for crocodile management, surveys, signage and community • $0.14M to protect awareness campaigns in Darwin, wildlife in Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield, Top End Palmerston and Rural and East Arnhem regions Litchfield, Top End Rural

17 2008-09 Budget Darwin Darwin is the Northern Territory’s capital city and the main population and administrative centre. At the time of the 2006 Census, about 71 900 people lived in Darwin, with a median age of 33 years, and 12 per cent Indigenous. Major industries in Darwin include construction, defence and tourism, with the Northern Territory public sector also a substantial source of employment. Construction is strong, with large residential apartment-style developments in the city, residential construction in the new suburb of Lyons, and the Darwin Waterfront Development under way. Darwin is also an important defence base and is home to Larrakeyah Barracks, RAAF Base Darwin and Defence Establishment Berrimah.

Supporting Business • $0.52M for Berrimah Farm as the Safer Communities • $2.33M contribution towards base for primary industry research • $157M for police, fire and management of the Darwin services and extension programs emergency services in police and Waterfront precinct, including the • $0.15M to host the 2009 Australian fire stations, emergency services community infrastructure Tourism Export Council Symposium and volunteer units, a police college and forensic laboratory • $0.93M for the Territory Business Jobs and Training Centre to assist businesses with • $2.57M for land titles, births, deaths • $26.96M for Charles Darwin advice and information and marriages registration and University, Batchelor Institute of public trustee and wills services • $0.63M for tourism marketing, Indigenous Tertiary Education and industry improvement and visitor other service providers to deliver • $2.36M for Darwin and Casuarina information services vocational education and training community corrections • $0.6M for marketing to leverage and tertiary programs • $1.4M for Family Responsibility interest from Australia the Movie, • $0.72M for Indigenous Response Agreements and Orders under the highlighting Darwin and the Territory Programs leading to employment Youth Justice Act as a tourism destination • $0.64M for driver training and • $0.94M for the First Response Patrol licensing for 16 to 18 year olds to respond to antisocial behaviour • $0.65M for Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation for return to country information and referral services to homeless and itinerant people • $0.6M for a community operated night patrol • $0.75M for transport safety officers for the Darwin Bus Network • $0.24M for a domestic violence legal and advocacy service • $0.11M for a 24 hour phone hotline to report antisocial behaviour • $92 000 for regional justice project officers, to increase public safety and reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol‑related harm

18 Better Schooling • $70.47M for early childhood and primary education in 19 schools • $35.65M for assistance to non‑government schools • $35.17M for secondary education at four schools • $5.6M • $22.06M for middle years education to provide home at six schools and community care • $14.68M for open learning programs services for those with a and support for students and disability and the frail aged teachers in music and languages • $5.5M grant to Menzies School of • $6.56M for student and school Health Research to extend facilities support including curricula for at Royal Darwin Hospital schools and special needs support • $1.47M for six additional beds at • $0.45M • $4.29M for Commonwealth targeted Royal Darwin Hospital for urban enhancement at programs including literacy, • $0.3M for intervention and treatment Anula, Nakara and Sabine Road shopping centres numeracy and special learning services for short-stay prisoners needs program and the National • $0.2M to coordinate health services • $0.42M for an Indigenous Allstars Drug Education Strategy for clients referred through the NAB Cup football match and criminal justice system premiership match in Darwin and • $3.23M for Indigenous Education one in Alice Springs in 2009 Strategic Initiatives programs to Community Development • $0.41M for crocodile management improve Indigenous education • $12.1M for HomeNorth schemes to across coastal areas • $2.04M for programs to support assist low to middle income earners to purchase a home • $0.35M for marine biodiversity students with a disability conservation and management • $0.6M for the Interpreting and • $1.55M for Building Better Schools Translating Service NT • $0.3M to launch the Darwin CBD to improve access, outcomes and Urban Planning Forum Action Plan engagement of secondary students Lifestyle and Environment • $0.19M to stage an Australian • $8.65M for art, cultural and history • $1.24M for Aboriginal Islander Rugby League pre-season game in collections at the Museum and Art education workers in schools February 2009 at Richardson Park Galleries of the NT • $0.99M for Territory student • $0.14M to protect wildlife across the • $2.66M for weed, biodiversity, feral assistance travel schemes Top End by monitoring trade and animal, fire, visitor and cultural increasing community awareness of • $0.71M for the Back to School management on parks and reserves wildlife management scheme to assist parents with the • $2.1M to secure a five-year • $0.12M for Darwin region arts cost of essential school items international cricket agreement festivals including Wordstorm • $0.26M for community stakeholder • $1.71M for the George Brown • $0.1M for the Junior Ranger partnerships in education Darwin Botanic Gardens program • $0.12M for extra school counsellors • $1.24M for public library services • $0.1M for Cool Communities in in Darwin, Nightcliff, Casuarina and Darwin and Alice Springs Better Health Karama • $353.36M for acute care services • $85 000 for the Telstra National • $1.13M for historical research at Royal Darwin Hospital, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander through NT Archives road and aero-retrieval transport Art Award • $0.77M to support the Darwin services and patient travel • $75 000 to stage a National Festival • $246.19M for non-acute health and Basketball League (Perth Wildcats) • $0.7M for an air quality program community services fixture at Marrara Indoor Stadium Darwin 19 2008-09 Budget

Infrastructure Highlights »» $19.76M Darwin Waterfront »» $2.5M for additional short-term »» $1.08M Fishermans Wharf – Development – continue headworks managed accommodation units complete the remedial works and roadworks, and demolish Iron »» $2.5M /Stuart Highway »» $1M Malak Primary School – Ore Wharf and Trower Road/Rothdale Road upgrade the assembly area » $17.6M for power, water and » intersections and Wishart Road cycle »» $1M Darwin CBD to airport sewerage infrastructure path improvements landscaping »» $16.6M capital grant to Power and »» $2.11M Australian Technical Colleges »» $0.95M Millner Primary School – Water Corporation to complete works – facilities upgrades at Casuarina upgrade assembly area for the undergrounding of power to Senior College, Palmerston and »» $0.75M for strengthening of urban Nightcliff, Rapid Creek and Millner Taminmin high schools arterial roads, Bagot Road »» $13.9M Darwin and Alice Springs »» $2M to construct a third lane and »» $0.5M Jingili Primary School – Correctional Centres to meet rising approach at the Stuart Highway/ upgrade drop off zone in Knowles prisoner numbers Deviney Road intersection Street »» $6.14M to complete the new »» $2M Alawa Primary School stage 2 – »» $0.5M Casuarina Senior College Casuarina police station classroom upgrades – upgrade existing school facilities »» $6M Myilly Point upgrade »» $2M Leanyer School upgrade, used as a public cyclone shelter »» $5.2M Leanyer Recreation Park, stage 2 – classroom upgrades »» $0.5M for new and upgraded existing stage 2 – waterslides, lifeguard bus shelters towers, food kiosk, additional shade »» $2M Nakara Primary School, stage and seating, and skate park 2 – classroom upgrades »» $0.45M for urban enhancement at East Point, Mindil Beach and »» $5M to upgrade facilities and »» $1.92M public housing – redevelop Casuarina Costal Reserve accommodation at the Ben blocks 4, 5 and 6 at Kurringal »» $0.45M Dinah Beach boat ramp Hammond Complex »» $1.5M for the Accident Prevention »» $4.8M Marrara netball centre Program, reviewing and upgrading »» $0.4M Nakara oval lighting »» $4.35M Development House roads including Kalymnos Drive and »» $0.4M for lighting in urban parks – complete the fitout McMillans Road »» $0.36M urban roads landscaping in »» $2.53M Parliament House »» $1.35M Hidden Valley Raceway – Alice Springs and Darwin – complete the communications and continue facilities upgrade »» $0.35M for resealing various security upgrade »» $1.3M Museum and Art Galleries of sections of Tiger Brennan Drive »» $2.5M for passing lanes on Tiger the Northern Territory – replace the »» $0.24M to repair underground storm Brennan Drive airconditioning system water pipes on Bagot Road

Acknowledgements The photos in this publication are reproduced with the kind permission of: Darwin Port Corporation Department of Business, Economic and Regional Development Department of Employment, Education and Training Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts Department of Planning and Infrastructure Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines Maryclaire Milikins Steve Nankivell 20 Darwin