Land

How agriculture can develop in the Darwin area without interfering with the conservation of threatened species

Lessons from weather data

How government could support investment northern agriculture - a literature survey

A look at recent agricultural development in the Darwin rural area and what we can learn to make informed decisions for the future

Investigating the potential effects of agricultural development on endemic threatened species in the Darwin area

Opportunities for Indigenous communities and conservation in the Darwin region

This project used linked data to identify how socio-demographic, health, and environmental characteristics influence heatwave-related deaths and illness in Australia.

This project established a new national database and demonstrated its potential to link farm outcomes with climate conditions.

For example, a support network that is adaptive enough to identify and provide assistance to investors where their need is greatest, and government has the expertise to assist

Government can help primarily by providing greater clarity and efficiency in how approvals are processed, and also by providing access to information such as resource assessments

Well targeted RD&E can help reduce the high risk of failure and contain costs at the small scale while solutions to the challenges of farming in tropical locations are tested and refined

The start of the peak season varied by 25 days from 1960 to 2017, with a big shift every eight years on average: imported workers could miss the peak in those years.

Provide flexible and agile support for diverse development pathways. Help investors avoid options at high risk of being non-viable. Target RD&E to address risks.

The Indigenous estate contains high concentrations of threatened species, and more than 50,000 hectares of habitat for the region’s two most endemic threatened animals.

Hotspots for potentially vulnerable mammals occupy 28% of the 233,950 hectares notionally available for agriculture. Those for endangered species occupy just 0.07%.

In the Darwin area, less than 1% of the land suitable for soybean cropping overlaps the habitats of the two threatened animal species investigated.

Businesses that made capital purchases in their first year of operations lasted on average two more years than those that did not.

Between 2002 and 2015 more than half new jobs in agriculture were in the services sector and the number of businesses in that sector increased from 29 to 59.

Indigenous workers made up 50% of park rangers and 44% of social security workers. Workers with tertiary qualifications earned similar salaries in urban and rural jobs.

Over 95% of workers with a diploma or degree were employed, falling to 75% of those educated to year 9, who had much lower salaries and higher income volatility.