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The Northern Territory is an Australian 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.
An administrator in the constitutional practice of some countries in the Commonwealth is a person who fulfils a role similar to that of a governor or a governor-general.
The Administrator of the Northern Territory is an official appointed by the Governor-General of Australia to represent the government of the Commonwealth in the Northern Territory,Australia. They perform functions similar to those of a state governor.
The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory is the unicameral legislature of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It sits in the Legislative Assembly Building on Civic Square,close to the centre of the city of Canberra.
Grant Ernest John Tambling,AM is an Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1980 to 1983 and then a Senator for the Northern Territory from 1987 to 2001,representing the Country Liberal Party. In federal parliament,he sat with the National Country Party,later renamed National Party. He later served as Administrator of Norfolk Island from 2003 to 2007.
Mataranka is a town and locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 420 km (260 mi.) southeast of the territory capital of Darwin,and 107 km (66 mi.) south of Katherine. At the 2016 census,Mataranka recorded a population of 350. 29.5% of residents are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
The following lists events that happened during 1886 in Australia.
Harold George "H. G." Nelson was an Australian politician and trade unionist who was the first person to represent the Northern Territory in the House of Representatives. He arrived in the territory in 1914 to work as an organiser for the Australian Workers' Union (AWU),and was a leader of the Darwin rebellion of 1918. He subsequently served in the House of Representatives from 1922 to 1934,initially as an independent and then as a member of the Labor Party.
The Residency holds significance for the people of Alice Springs as a tangible symbol of their brief legislative independence from the rest of the Northern Territory. It also provided a hub of social and cultural activities for the local residents.
Thomas Ian Pauling is an Australian lawyer and a former Administrator of the Northern Territory.
John Norman Nelson was an Australian politician. Born in Bundaberg,Queensland,he was the son of politician Harold Nelson. Jock Nelson was educated at state schools in Darwin before becoming a jackeroo and goldminer,and later a bore contractor at Alice Springs. After serving in the military from 1942 to 1945,he became a pastoralist. In 1949,he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Northern Territory,defeating the sitting independent,Adair Blain. At this time,the member for Northern Territory could only vote on matters relating to the Territory itself. In 1963,he was re-elected unopposed,the last occasion when a member was returned to the House of Representatives in this fashion. He retired in 1966,an occasion used by the Country Party to take the seat. Nelson returned to pastoralism and served as the first Mayor of Alice Springs before he stepped down to become the Administrator of the Northern Territory (1973–1975) before his death in 1991.
Roger Bede Nott was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until 1961. He was a member of the Labor Party and held numerous ministerial positions between 1954 and 1961. He was the Administrator of the Northern Territory between 1961 and 1964.
Arthur Robert Driver was an Australian engineer,army officer and public servant. He was the Administrator of the Northern Territory between 1946 and 1951.
John Charles Cawood was an Australian administrator who served as Government Resident of Central Australia during the territory's brief existence as a separate jurisdiction from the Northern Territory. The seat of power was Alice Springs,then known as Stuart Town.
The Department of the Northern Territory was an Australian government department that existed between December 1972 and June 1975. It was the second so-named Australian Government department.
The Bungalow was an institution for Aboriginal children established in 1914 in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It existed at several locations in Alice Springs,Jay Creek and the Alice Springs Telegraph Station.
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 is the current ruling party in the Northern Territory and is led by Natasha Fyles,who has concurrently served as chief minister of the Northern Territory since 2022,and previously Michael Gunner from 2016 to 2022.
This is a list of members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council from 10 December 1949 to 28 April 1951.
Central Australia was a territory of Australia that existed from 1927 to 1931. It was formed from the split of the Northern Territory in 1927 alongside the territory of North Australia,the dividing line between the two being the 20th parallel south. The two territories were merged in 1931 to reform the Northern Territory. The seat of government of the territory was Stuart,a town that was commonly known as "Alice Springs" and would be officially renamed so in 1933.
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- ↑ Australia, National Archives of. "Post-war Northern Territory Administration, 1945–72". guides.naa.gov.au. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- "Biography: Previous Incumbents - Victor George Carrington" (PDF). Government House NT. Northern Territory Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
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