Who will make our 120 Most Powerful list this year?

BUCKLE up, batten down, hold on tight – the NT News’ Most Powerful list is back. And this year, it’s got more attitude than ever

BUCKLE up, batten down, hold on tight – the NT News’ Most Powerful list is back.

And this year, it’s got more attitude than ever.

And you’ll only find it, exc­lusively, on the NT News website ntnews.com.au, counting down from numbers 120-111 today (below).

Click on each picture in our interactive graphic to find out a bit more about our list makers and why we’ve placed them where we have.

What do you think of our choices?

Darwin Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim only just snuck in at 116? Is she too low on our list? Or too high? Maybe she’s just right?

A capital city’s Lord Mayor SHOULD be higher than the last 10 on a list like this.

But, remember, she has overseen many unpopular (many would argue unnecessary too) decisions, she is just a single vote on council, not being part of a voting bloc and many are increasingly arguing that Darwin does not even need its own council.

Darwin Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim ... should she be higher on our list than Number 116? Picture: Elise Derwin

Well, for starters it doesn’t handle building developments and approvals which makes up the majority of work for most other councils around Australia.

Anyway, let us know what you think of our choices in the comment section below.

The Most Powerful list caused a sensation when the NT News first published it during the 2008 wet season. Within days, it became known simply as The 120.

The rich and famous pretended they didn’t want to be on it, while their secretaries telephoned to plead for them to be included.

Some people who knew they would be on the list lobbied to be higher up.

For some, not being on the list was the ultimate humiliation – they moved south.

Of course, this is the NT, where the only men who wear ties are politicians and the acc­used. Not for us one of those forelock-tugging, respectful most powerful lists that you get in newspapers down south.

This year’s NT News’ Most Powerful will be as irreverent as it has always been.

And just remember, you’ll have nothing to gossip about if you miss it.

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TOMORROW: Our 120 Most Powerful: Who did we choose as numbers 110-101, only on ntnews.com.au