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Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory,Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population,with 139,902 at the 2021 census. It is the smallest,wettest,and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre.
The Northern Territory is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west,South Australia to the south,and Queensland to the east. To the north,the territory looks out to the Timor Sea,the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria,including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
The Northern Territory Police Force is the police body that has legal jurisdiction over the Northern Territory of Australia. This police service has 1,607 police members made up of 83 senior sergeants,228 sergeants,912 constables,220 auxiliaries,and 64 Aboriginal Community Police Officers. The rest of the positions are members of commissioned rank and inoperative positions. It also has a civilian staff working across the NT Police,Fire and Emergency Services.
Pine Creek is a small town in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory,Australia and is situated just off the Stuart Highway;it is 90kms north of Katherine. As at the 2021 Census there were 318 residents of Pine Creek,which is the fourth largest town between Darwin and Alice Springs.
Port Darwin is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory of Australia. It was first created in 1974. It is an entirely urban electorate,covering only 5 km²and taking in the Darwin central business district,as well as the suburb of Larrakeyah and part of Stuart Park. There were 5,699 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020.
The Northern Territory Greens are a green party in the Northern Territory,a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party. The party currently has one representative in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly,having won the seat of Nightcliff in 2024.
Many sports are played in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Library &Archives NT comprises the Northern Territory Library and the two Northern Territory Archives Centres in Darwin and Alice Springs. Located in Parliament House in Darwin City,it is the premier public research and archival organisation focused on the history,development and culture of the Northern Territory of Australia. The library holds more than 108,000 books and 30,000 items. The archive holds Northern Territory Government records,which are normally opened 30 years after they were created.
Adam Graham Giles is an Australian former politician and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (2013–2016) as well as the former leader of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Giles is the first Indigenous Australian to serve as a head of government in Australia.
The Northern Territory Times was a newspaper in Darwin established in 1873 and closed in 1932. The paper was called the Northern Territory Times and Gazette from 1873–1927 and then TheNorthern Territory Times from 1927–1932. For a while,The North Australian (1883–1889),existed as a rival publication proposing "an independent voice".
SS Ellengowan was a schooner rigged,single screw steamer built by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Christiania (Oslo) Norway,under her original name,Nøkken. The vessel was powered by sail and a vertical direct acting steam engine. Ellengowan sank at its moorings,unmanned,during the night of 27 April 1888 in Port Darwin and was abandoned. 103 years later,in 1991,she was discovered by divers making it the oldest known shipwreck in Darwin Harbour.
Lia Emele Finocchiaro is an Australian politician who has served as the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory since August 2024. A member of the Country Liberal Party (CLP),she has represented the seat of Spillett in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since her election in 2016. Following the resignation of Gary Higgins on 1 February 2020,she became the Leader of the Opposition in the Northern Territory. Prior to this,she served as the member for Drysdale from 2012 to 2016.
Natasha Kate Fyles is an Australian politician and former teacher who served as the 12th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and Minister for Health. She was the leader of the Northern Territory branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from May 2022 until her resignation in December 2023. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the division of Nightcliff from 2012 until her defeat at the 2024 election. She previously served as 22nd attorney-general of the Northern Territory and the territory’s minister for Justice from 2016 to 2020.
This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral division of Port Darwin in Northern Territory elections.
Lauren Jane Moss is an Australian politician. She was elected the Labor member for Casuarina in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in a by-election held on 18 October 2014 to replace Kon Vatskalis,a seat which she held for 10 years. She is the youngest ever member of Northern Territory Parliament. Prior to entering politics she was a youth advocate.
Eva Dina Lawler is an Australian politician. She was the chief minister of the Northern Territory from 2023 to 2024,holding office as the leader of the Territory Labor Party. She was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2024,representing the electorate of Drysdale until her defeat at the 2024 Northern Territory general election. Before becoming chief minister she held ministerial office in the governments of Michael Gunner and Natasha Fyles.
Ngaree Jane Ah Kit is an Australian politician from the Labor Party. She was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electoral division of Karama in Darwin from 2016 to 2024.
Angela Foley is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2017 to season 6. A defender,1.73 metres (5.7 ft) tall,Foley plays primarily on the half-back line with the ability to push into the midfield.
The Territory Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Northern Territory Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Territory Labor,is the Northern Territory branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been led by Selena Uibo,the first Aboriginal woman to lead a major political party in Australia,since 3 September 2024.
The 2024 Northern Territory general election was held on 24 August 2024 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Members were elected through full preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member electorates. The election was conducted by the Northern Territory Electoral Commission (NTEC).
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- ↑ "Port Darwin (Key Seat) - NT Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 2024-08-24. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
- ↑ "'Better NT for everyone': leader unveils first cabinet". Yahoo News. 2024-09-09. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
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