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The Mirage is towed along the tarmac at RAAF Base Darwin by the Static Display Aircraft Support team. Picture: ADF
Changing of the gate guardsSOME of RAAF Base Darwin’s
longest-term residents are having
a makeover.
Two Bloodhound missiles
standing guard outside RAAF
Darwin and a Mirage fighter jet at
the base memorial garden are
being repaired and repainted.
Commanding Officer of No.13
Squadron Robert Graham said
the restoration project had been
a long time coming.
‘‘Preservation of military
history is very important to
Defence and Air Force
particularly,’’ Wing Commander
Graham said.
‘‘The Bloodhounds have been
gate guards now for more than
three decades. They’re very tired
and they need a bit of care.’’
Bloodhound missiles were
tested at the Woomera range in
the 1950s and served with the
RAAF at Williamtown in NSW
from 1961-68, with a detachment
at Darwin from 1965.
When the missiles were
removed from service, Darwin
was one of the sites selected to
place them as gate guards.
Mirage fighters were in service
from 1963-88 and frequently
staged through Darwin for
exercises. They were based in
the Top End from 1983-88.
Officer in charge of the Static
Display Aircraft Support Section,
Squadron Leader Stephen
Currie, said his team was looking
forward to restoring the
‘‘historical assets’’.
‘‘We are acting to ensure they
are here for generations to
come,’’ he said.
The missiles and Mirage will
return to public display around
the end of September.
Petitionopposesrezoning
There is plenty of
landwithin the
existingHumptyDoo
district centre that
has not yet been
developed
By NICOLE MILLS
MORE than 300 people have
signed a petition opposing the
proposed rezoning of a rural
block outside the Humpty Doo
district centre.
Nelson MLA Gerry Wood said
Planning Minister Peter Chandler
had advertised the proposed
development before the Planning
Commissioner finished a review
of the Litchfield Shire district
centres. The proposal includes
rezoning a section of rural land at
110 Freds Pass Road to create a
residential development with
more than 70 homes.
Mr Wood said the proposed
development should not have
been advertised until the review
was finalised.
‘‘Because someone owns a
large block of land (they) reckon
they can turn that block into
suburbia; something that is
presently not permitted under
Litchfield Land Use Objectives
outside of district centres,’’ he
said. Mr Wood expects the
number of residents opposing
the development to grow and
said it highlighted the ad hoc
nature of planning where ‘‘the left
hand does not know what the
right hand is doing’’.
‘‘There is plenty of land within
the existing Humpty Doo District
Centre that has not yet been
developed and that should go
ahead before any proposals to
develop smaller blocks are
considered or the Humpty Doo
District Centre is expanded,’’ he
said. ‘‘Planning, as the word
implies, needs to be consistent,
logical and sustainable, not
simply profitable.’’
Mr Chandler was contacted for
comment but did not respond.
A copy of the proposal can be
viewed at www.lands.nt.gov.au/
planning until August 9.
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