List of figures Figure 1. Paul Henderson, minister, second from right, and guests on the fifth-floor balcony of the Northern Territory Parliament House, 2005. 17 Figure 2. Paul AE Everingham, Member of the Legislative Assembly ..................................23 Figure 3. Charlotte Waters Telegraph Station, near the South Australian border, included a store and post office ...........37 Figure 4. Finke River Mission, September 1905 .................39 Figure 5. Tiwi people on Bathurst Island, January 1941, with Bishop Gsell. .40 Figure 6. Transfer Ceremony, 2 January 1911 ...................46 Figure 7. Catholic Mission School at Arltunga, January 1947 .......49 Figure 8. Train (Commonwealth line) with new engines, Northern South Australia, January 1920 ..................51 Figure 9. The first Legislative Council, 16 February 1948 ..........59 Figure 10. First Legislative Assembly sitting, 19 March 1975, in the cyclone-damaged chamber. Corrugated iron sheets in right foreground were used to channel rainwater away from members’ desks .................................60 Figure 11. Mission Aboriginals [sic] working in a carpentry shop, May 1968 .........................................65 Figure 12. Alice Springs High School from Anzac Hill, October 1958. This was the site of the Adult Education Centre and it became the first home of the Alice Springs Community College in 1974. 70 Figure 13. Electrical experiments at Darwin High School adult training classes, 30 June 1967 ......................71 vii VocatioNAL EducatioN ANd TRAiNiNg Figure 14. Darwin Primary School in January 1957, it later became Darwin Higher Primary and then Darwin High School. This building in Woods Street became the Adult Education Centre under principal Harold Garner ...........74 Figure 15. Apprentice training in the former World War Two railway workshops in Katherine, February 1974. David Handley, first-year apprentice and Robert Scott, trades foreman ......................................78 Figure 16. Opening ceremony of the Darwin Community College by HRH Prince Philip; Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is on the right .......................................82 Figure 17. Goff Letts, former Chief Secretary of the Northern Territory ...................................87 Figure 18. Elizabeth Andrew, February 1974 ...................90 Figure 19. Jim Robertson, Member of the Legislative Assembly, February 1974 ......................................95 Figure 20. Ministers of the new Northern Territory Government, 1 July 1978, swearing-in ceremony. 100 Figure 21. Darwin Community College looking towards Alawa, April 1979. .103 Figure 22. Geoff Chard (Left) ..............................105 Figure 23. Industry Training Commission, first meeting, 1 July 1980, Geoff Chard at far right ....................107 Figure 24. Jim Eedle .....................................108 Figure 25. Dhupuma College, February 1975 .................109 Figure 26. Training Centre, Stuart Park, September 1981 .........114 Figure 27. Ray McHenry .................................117 Figure 28. Training. Calf-tagging training for secondary school students. 121 Figure 29. Restaurant interior, Gillen House, Alice Springs .......122 Figure 30. Tom Harris ...................................133 Figure 31. Geoff Spring ..................................139 viii LiST oF FiguRES Figure 32. The Honourable Terry McCarthy ..................142 Figure 33. Former Minister for Education and Training, Shane Stone. 157 Figure 34. Ministers Fred Finch, Shane Stone and lecturer Kym Livesley celebrating the new course ‘Introduction to Mining Law’ at the Northern Territory University, April 1993 .......................................170 Figure 35. The Honourable Fred Finch handing over motorcycles for licensed training .......................172 Figure 36. Palmerston Campus .............................173 Figure 37. Peter Adamson, Member of the Legislative Assembly, January 2001. .179 Figure 38. The second Burke ministry, 1 August 2000 ...........183 Figure 39. Former Kargaru School, November 1996 ............189 Figure 40. Students with Minister Stirling at a government- sponsored breakfast in Alice Springs, May 2003 ............192 Figure 41. Peter Plummer, centre, served as the Chief Executive of three different Northern Territory Government agencies in addition to being the Principal of Batchelor College ......197 Figure 42. Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, 2011 ...................................210 Figure 43. Marion Scrymgour (left) being sworn in as a member of the ninth Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on 16 October 2001. 215 Figure 44. Margaret Banks, the Chief Executive of the Department of Employment, Education and Training, introducing Minister Scrymgour, at the far left, during the January 2006 scholarships and bursaries awards ceremony held at Parliament House. 216 Figure 45. Minister Henderson preparing to present prizes at the Teaching Excellence Awards ceremony at Parliament House, October 2009 .....................................217 ix VocatioNAL EducatioN ANd TRAiNiNg Figure 46. Minister Burns, second from right, overseeing the celebration of a Charles Darwin University lecturer’s 40 years of teaching ........................................219 Figure 47. Robyn Lambley, Member of the Legislative Assembly, with the Mayor of Alice Springs, Damien Ryan, joining in the celebrations at the Alice Springs campus of Charles Darwin University recognising 25 years of university-level education in the Northern Territory, June 2014 ....................235 x This text is taken from Vocational Education and Training: The Northern Territory’s history of public philanthropy, by Don Zoellner, published 2017 by ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia..