Tennant Creek

Why would you then cut $17 million of that $20 million budget to get this very... important project for health infrastructure completed and now we are seeing unfortunately what those delays in works what the money was there and purpose specifically to do to upgrade that more care in darwin to be ripped away and then to kind of backtrack and backpedal now so Get it done because there are other parts of the Northern Territory that seriously need to see investment in more infrastructure, particularly when it comes to our loved ones' afterlife and seeing morgues in the Northern Territory in our centres.

in our remote communities as well to be able to take the pressure off Darwin, Nullumboy, Catherine, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, which are all the centres for the morgues.

We do not have remote freezer morgues in the Northern Territory.

So bodies, unfortunately, Katie, go from our remote communities into our Darwin centres until they're ready to be repatriated.

I did have a car go through the front of my office, you know, just, what, 18 months, two years ago.

Yeah.

as part of a series of crime going on in Tennant Creek.

So whether that was directly targeted at me or whether it was part of the series of crime going on, but security is good.

I speak specifically to racism out there.

Jodie, your community outreach engagement piece at Collingwood is at Tennant Creek, yeah? Can you talk us a little bit about that before you get on a plane? Because I know you're trying to get there.

Yes, I'm going

to take this as the last question.

Otherwise, I'm not going to get back to home base.

We're so proud of our Tennant Creek program.

Well, our whole Barrow 1 program's got many elements.

One of them is our Tennant Creek program.

Well, there's been several Northern Territory schools that have celebrated major milestones this year across the Territory.

And the latest is the Tennant Creek High School, which over the weekend celebrated its 40-year anniversary.

And while you'd think a school in the heart of the Barclay may not have as colourful a history as some...

Tennant Creek High School has welcomed some pretty high-profile visitors over the years for a humble school in the Northern Territory.

And joining us now is the principal, Petrina Haywood.

Good morning to you, Petrina.

would have been really nice.

And I know that the school's actually got quite a colourful history.

Designing with country is often discussed at the scale of public buildings and major developments.

But what happens when those same principles are applied to something even more fundamental, a family home? Several thousand kilometres northwest of Mount Druitt in Tennant Creek, one project is exploring exactly that.

It's really perfect and, you know, I love it.

And seeing... open place that we can sit and, you know, watch day go by and, you know, sunsets and rain we can see.

And, you know, I'm really happy that I designed my own house with my partner.

Hi, my name is Serena Navananga Morton.

I'm a Yoruba woman and I live in Tennant Creek.

Serena and her partner Norm helped design their house around the way their family actually lives.