NEWS: July - September 2009
25 September 2009
Congratulations to the 2009 Central Australian Tourism Award winners
Congratulations to all winners at the recent Central Australian Tourism Awards! Our Alice Springs Manager, Laurelle Halford took out the New Tourism Innovation award for her own business, DIY Tourguide, an innovative new product that offers audio tours for self-drive travellers in the Territory.
Also congratulations to Mbantua Gallery who won the Primary Tourism Operator Award, sponsored by Creative Territory. Mbantua Gallery has won a Creative Territory marketing package.
16 September 2009
Community Consultation on play spaces in the Mall
Council staff will be available to meet with members of the community to discuss children’s play spaces in the Smith Street Mall this week.Darwin City Council is considering redeveloping the play spaces in the Mall as part of the $7 million city revitalisation project.
3 September 2009
Central Australian Art Centre celebrates 20 years of success
Three generations of Eastern Arrernte families will today celebrate the 20th anniversary of Keringke Art Centre and the growth of one of the most distinctive art styles in central Australian Aboriginal art today.
To coincide with the 20 year anniversary, the book Listen Deeply, Let These Stories In by renowned Eastern Arrernte painter Kathleen Kemarre Wallace, written with Judy Lovell, will be launched by singer and songwriter Paul Kelly
18 August 2009
Alice Springs Motel Paves Way for Solar Technology
A unique solar heat pump system which provides hot water by drawing heat from the air, has been installed on an Alice Springs Motel - one of the first of its kind in the town.
13 August 2009
Catch the Alice Solar City virus
The number of new customers to join the Alice Solar City project skyrocketed in the month of july to 177, over three times the monthly average since the Project was launched in March 2008.
12 August 2009
Senior Aboriginal elders applaud Government's new national approach to preserve languages
“Kuwari nganana pukularinyi panya Governmentngku Ananguku wangkaku palyanmanu. Iriti tjana wangka walytjangku kawalinu Anangu maru tjutangku Australiala winkingka.”
Alison Milyika Carroll, a senior Pitjantjatjara woman from Ernabella in South Australia on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, echoes in her first language the excitement of many elders in her community, about the Australian Government’s National Indigenous Languages Policy announced this week.
27 July 2009
100 roofs to go solar in 100 days in Alice Springs
Alice Solar City has issued a solar challenge to the Alice Springs community - for 100 home or business owners to commit to installing 100 solar systems between 27 July and 27 November before funding ends on 31 December.
23 July 2009
Talking poster a first for Australia
A Darwin company has launched an Australian-first technology to deliver "talking posters" for Indigenous and other multilingual audiences.
21 July 2009
Green office building opens for business
One of the Territory's first office buildings designed to achieve a 5-Starenergy rating will be officially opened by the Chief Minister today.
16 July 2009
10% of Alice Springs homes now more energy efficent
One thousand households or 10% of all homes in Alice Springs are now committed to being more energy efficent through the Alice Solar City project.
8 July 2009
Tourism industry looking for its finest at Awards Night
Members of the Central Australian tourism industry and the general puclic can now cast their votes for the favourite tourism operator or product, as nominations open this week for the 2009 Central Australian Tourism Industry Awards.
