The city of Darwin should be “partitioned off” from the rest of the Northern Territory to remedy an urban bias in state and federal government budgets, according to an NT economist based in Alice Springs.
Charles Darwin University research fellow Rolf Gerritsen says the NT’s political and institutional structures need to be changed to allow more federal and state funding to flow to rural towns and remote communities.
Speaking at an NT Council of Social Service conference in Darwin on 26 September, Gerritsen said that Darwin should be become “a city-territory in a fashion similar to Canberra”.
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