Acacia Hills is an outer rural locality of Darwin. It is south of the Darwin CBD in

Litchfield Municipality The Litchfield Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory of Australia on the eastern and southeastern outskirts of the Darwin-Palmerston urban area. The municipality covers an area of , and was created by the Northern Territ ...

. Named for the acacia shrub that is endemic to the area, the suburb is largely rural land, just north of Manton Dam and west of the

Adelaide River The Adelaide River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia. Course and features The river rises in the Litchfield National Park and flows generally northwards to Clarence Strait, joined by eight tributaries including the west branch ...

Mango A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree ''Mangifera indica''. It is believed to have originated in the region between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh, and northeastern India. ''M. indica'' has been cultivated in South a ...

farming is an important local industry. Both the

Stuart Highway Stuart Highway is a major Australia, Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; a distance of . Its northern and sou ...

and Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor pass through the area. The area is notable as the site of the 1999 Acacia Hills Shootout, where bushman

Rodney Ansell Rodney William Ansell (1 October 1954 – 3 August 1999) was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Described to be from "the bush", Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Terri ...

ambushed several policemen at a roadblock. Ansell killed one policeman but was eventually shot himself in the gun battle that followed. Acacia Hills again made national news in 2021, when the Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority ordered a Victorian company to remove 3000 tonnes of used tyres which were discovered to have been stored illegally on a local property

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040718/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#p#p {{Litchfield Municipality Suburbs and Towns Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory