Mandorah is a locality in the

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. Its

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is the Wagait Shire. At the 2016 census, Mandorah had no people living within its boundaries. The locality of Mandorah on the

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, across the harbour from Darwin, is named after "Mandorah", a guest house built in what is now the locality by Allan Hartwig prior to 1948. In 2019 the

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announced it would spend up to $50 million to replace the Mandorah jetty, construct a

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to protect it from damage during storms, and construct a

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. The original jetty was built in the 1960s and repaired several times since it was damaged by

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in 1974. The temporary repairs had posed difficulties for disabled people wanting to use the ferry service. Wagait Shire welcomed the project as an opportunity to encourage economic development in the

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