25% OFF all NT Experiences! BOOK NOW!
Travel must commence by the 30th of April 2024. Discount applied automatically!
Available online at visitkatherine.com.au or contact the Katherine Visitor Information Centre
25% OFF all NT Experiences! BOOK NOW!
Travel must commence by the 30th of April 2024. Discount applied automatically!
Available online at visitkatherine.com.au or contact the Katherine Visitor Information Centre
Running until 17 May 2020
Free Entry
The Northern Territory has always been an impossible land to master. From its monsoonal Top End to its arid Centre, it promises bountiful resources, but almost every attempt to exploit them has failed. It is too immense, too remote, its resources too inaccessible.
By 1900, the Territory had been largely neglected by its South Australian administrators. Few Europeans ventured there. The first peoples, the Aboriginal population, were the majority, and Chinese people outnumbered white Australians.
To Australia's statesmen the Territory's vast unpopulated reaches invited unwelcome foreign interest. So, in 1911, the Commonwealth took control. They invested in industries and infrastructure, bringing an influx of workers. It seemed the Territory might finally prosper.
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