Victoria Ellis

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis

Glen Oliver could not look more at home as he walked through neat rows of date palms towering like giant spiky umbrellas under the clear blue central Australian sky. "One, two, three, four," he said, as he pointed out a few of the palms he grew from tissue culture in the plantation at the Arid Zone Research Institute (AZRI) in Alice Springs. Mr Oliver, a skilled horticulturalist, has nurtured a huge number of plants and species in the nearly 20 years he has worked at the research farm.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis |Stewart Brash

The Local Government Association of the Northern Territory (LGANT) has criticised a proposal to change how council mayors are elected. Currently under the Local Government Act, councils decide prior to elections whether voters elect their mayor, or whether councillors appoint a mayor at their first meeting. But a potential amendment to the act proposes that all NT councils elect their mayor, removing the option for voters to elect their mayor directly.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis

As sunlight hits the Tanami, the desert glows gold. Then, hundreds of workers disappear into the darkness underground. This is life at Newmont's Tanami mine — a remote fly-in fly-out (FIFO) site on Warlpiri country, more than 500 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, where tonnes of gold are hauled from deep below the red earth. Now, a new shaft almost 1.5km deep is being built beneath the surface, one the mining company says will be the deepest in Australia.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Anisha Pillarisetty |Lillian Rangiah |Victoria Ellis

Heavy rain across Central Australia has been welcomed by residents after a hot summer. Residents are enjoying rare scenes of water flowing down Uluru and the Todd River flowing through Alice Springs. The  Bureau of Metereology says flooding is expected to ease from Wednesday across most of the southern part of the Northern Territory. Heavy rain over the past fortnight has brought relief to many Central Australian residents after a scorching summer.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Victoria Ellis

It has been five years since workplaces across the country closed their doors amid Australia's first round of COVID-19 lockdowns. But while the world was coming to a standstill many in the Northern Territory's primary industries kept working. ABC Rural spoke to members of the NT's agriculture and mining sectors about their memories of the pandemic and what was learnt. Paul Burke was the chief executive of NT Farmers in 2020.