Darwin not the next big mining hub: expert

GETTING indigenous people on board is the only way to manage proper long-term development of northern regions dealing with FIFO industry, an academic says.

GOVERNMENTS may have to accept Darwin is not going to be the country's next major mining hub, an academic says.

THERE has been plenty of growth but not much development of the region, as primary industries centralise in Perth and Queensland, said Rolf Gerritsen, a professorial research fellow at the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University.