|
Kunparrka, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Kunparrka is a locality in the Northern Territory, Australia, located about south of the territory capital of Darwin. Kunparrka is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region. History The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 3 April 2007. It is named after the Kunparrka Aboriginal Land Trust. Demographics As of the 2021 Australian census, 121 people resided in Kunparrka, up from 112 in the . The median The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a Sample (statistics), data sample, a statistical population, population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as the “ ... age of persons in Kunparrka was 34 years. There were fewer males than females, with 46% of the population male and 54% female. The average household size was 3.9 people per household. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin City, Northern Territory
Darwin City (also referred to as ''Darwin city centre'' or ''The CBD'') is a suburb in Darwin, Northern Territory, metropolitan Darwin which comprises the original settlement, the central business district, parkland and other built-up areas. It is the traditional country and waterways of the Larrakia people. It is original site of occupation and includes many of the city's important institutions and landmarks, such as Parliament House, Darwin, Parliament, Government House, Darwin, Government House, the Northern Territory Supreme Court, Bicentennial Park (Darwin), Bicentennial Park and the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens. The city centre is located in the Local government in Australia, local government areas of the City of Darwin and the Darwin Waterfront Precinct. Although the city centre is one of the most developed areas of Darwin, demographically it is one of the less densely populated, due to its core being commercial. History The Larrakia people are the traditional ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacDonnell Region
The MacDonnell Regional Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. The region covers an area of and had an estimated population of 6,863 people in June 2018. Geography MacDonnell Regional Council occupies the south of the Northern Territory and is the only LGA that borders with South Australia, specifically with Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in the southwest and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area in the southeast. Alice Springs and Yulara are enclaves within the LGA. History In October 2006 the Northern Territory Government announced the reform of local government areas. The intention of the reform was to improve and expand the delivery of services to towns and communities across the Northern Territory by establishing eleven new shires. The MacDonnell Shire Council was created on 1 July 2008, as were the remaining ten shires. Elections of shire councillors were held on 25 October 2008. Community Government Councils merged into the MacDonn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Namatjira
Namatjira is an Electoral divisions of the Northern Territory, electoral division of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was created in 2012 when the former division of Electoral division of MacDonnell, MacDonnell was renamed after the Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira. Namatjira is an almost entirely rural electorate, covering 198,384 km2, and taking in the resort town of Yulara, Northern Territory, Yulara, the remote communities of Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Hermannsburg, Kintore, Northern Territory, Kintore and Papunya, Northern Territory, Papunya, and part of southern Alice Springs. There were 5,728 electors enrolled in Namatjira as of August 2020. The seat's first member, Alison Anderson, the former Australian Labor Party (Northern Territory Branch), Labor-turned-independent-turned-Country Liberal Party, Country Liberal (CLP) member for MacDonnell, won the seat handily at the 2012 Northern Terri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Lingiari
The Division of Lingiari () is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the Northern Territory that covers the entirety of the territory outside of the Division of Solomon, which covers Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and surrounding areas. The division also includes the territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Lingiari includes all of the Northern Territory's remote Indigenous Australians, Indigenous communities, most of whom vote when visited by mobile polling teams during the election campaign. The current Parliament of Australia, MP is Marion Scrymgour, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Scrymgour herself is Indigenous and inherited Tiwi people, Tiwi identity from her mother. Geography Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at Redistribution (Australia), redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Mackay, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Lake Mackay is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located on the territory’s south-west adjoining the border with the state of Western Australia about south of the territory capital of Darwin and about west of the municipal seat in Alice Springs. The locality consists of the following land (from north to south): the Lake Mackay Aboriginal Land Trust, the Mount Doreen Station pastoral property, the former Newhaven Station pastoral property and the western part of the Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Land Trust. It fully surrounds the localities of Kintore and Nyirripi. The Tanami Road passes through the locality from Yuendumu in the south to the north-west via Mount Dooreen Station on its way to Halls Creek. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from Lake Mackay, the “intermittent lake feature on the Northern Territory/Western Australian border” which is located within the locality’s boundarie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Zeil, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Mount Zeil is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality consists of the following land: #The Derwent pastoral lease in the north-west #The Narwietooma pastoral lease in the north-east #The Glen Helen pastoral lease in the south-west, and #The north-west part of the West MacDonnell National Park in the south-east. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the mountain of the same name which is located within its boundaries. As of 2020, it has an area of . The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mount Zeil had 83 people living within its boundaries. Mount Zeil is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region. UAP ( Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) On an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Harold E. Puthof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Hugh is a locality in the Northern Territory, Australia, located about south of the territory capital of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. The locality consists of the following land from north to south – the Owen Springs Station, Owen Springs, the Orange Creek and the Maryvale Station, Maryvale pastoral leases. The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. It is named after the river which flows through the locality and which was named as a creek by John McDouall Stuart in 1860 after a Hugh Chambers. It fully surrounds the community of Titjikala. As of 2020, it has an area of . The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Hugh had 865 people living within its boundaries of which 687 (78.9%) identified as “Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.” Hugh is located within the federal division of Division of Lingiari, Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Electoral divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mereenie, Northern Territory
Mereenie is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is about 250 km west of Alice Springs and northeast of Uluru. It is on the "Inner Mereenie Loop" road which was completed as a sealed road in 2016 providing access for caravans and two-wheel-drive vehicles. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Mereenie had 30 people living within its boundaries. Mereenie is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region. Mereenie Oil Field The Mereenie Oil Field is a source of oil and gas in the Amadeus Basin. It is connected to Darwin by the Amadeus Gas Pipeline and to Alice Springs by an oil pipeline. It was discovered in 1963 and began production in 1984. Since then it has produced over 16 million barrels of oil and condensate and over . Production in 2014 was 225,600 barrels of oil, 41,000 BOE of condensate and 5 PJ of natural gas. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east). To the north, the Northern Territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and various other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and List of country subdivisions by area, the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half the population of Tasmania. The largest population centre is the capital city of Darw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( Larrakia: ') 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. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes it a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin and extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs extend to Lee Point in the north and to Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like much of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and dry season. A period known locally as "the build up" leading up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Lingiari
The Division of Lingiari () is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the Northern Territory that covers the entirety of the territory outside of the Division of Solomon, which covers Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and surrounding areas. The division also includes the territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Lingiari includes all of the Northern Territory's remote Indigenous Australians, Indigenous communities, most of whom vote when visited by mobile polling teams during the election campaign. The current Parliament of Australia, MP is Marion Scrymgour, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Scrymgour herself is Indigenous and inherited Tiwi people, Tiwi identity from her mother. Geography Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at Redistribution (Australia), redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Australian Census
The 2021 Australian census, simply called the 2021 Census, was the eighteenth national Census of Population and Housing in Australia. The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). It had a response rate of 96.1%, up from the 95.1% at the 2016 census. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 25,422,788, an increase of 8.6 per cent or 2,020,896 people over the previous 2016 census. Results from the 2021 census were released to the public on 28 June 2022 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website. A small amount of additional 2021 census data was released in October 2022 and in 2023. Australia's next census is scheduled to take place in 2026. The census was undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic. It therefore provided a clear snapshot of how the pandemic impacted Australian society. Overview In Australia, completing the census is compulsory for all people in Australia on census ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
