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Administrator of the Northern Territory

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Representative of the Crown in Australia

Administrator of the
Northern Territory
Badge of the Administrator
since 2 February 2023
Office of the Administrator
StyleHis Honourthe Honourable
ResidenceGovernment House, Darwin,
SeatDarwin
AppointerGovernor-General
on the advice of the CommonwealthMinister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories, following consultation with the Northern TerritoryChief Minister
Term lengthAt the Governor-General's pleasure
(usually 5 years byconvention)
Formation12 June 1931
First holderJohn A. Gilruth
Websitegovhouse.nt.gov.au

Theadministrator of the Northern Territory is an official appointed by thegovernor-general of Australia to represent the Crown in right of theNorthern Territory.[1][a] They perform functions similar to those of astate governor.

Strictly speaking, the appointment of an administrator is made by the governor-general acting on theadvice of theAustralian government, rather than the advice of thegovernment of the Northern Territory.[4] However, ministers have described the process as being based on "advice from the Australian and Northern Territory governments".[5]

Unlike an Australianstate governor, the administrator is not the direct representative ofthe King in the Territory but is instead appointed by the King's federal representative in Australia, the governor-general, to administer the Territory in accordance with the Act. In practice, however, the administrator performs a similar constitutional role to that of a state governor.

The administrator formally appoints thechief minister of the Northern Territory and the members of the Cabinet after every election. In all but a few cases, they are required by convention to act on the Cabinet's advice. The Administrator givesroyal assent to all bills passed by theNorthern Territory Legislative Assembly. Although the Governor-General (in practice, the Commonwealth Government) has the power to veto any territorial bill, in practice this right is almost never exercised.

The office of the deputy of the administrator was created in 1997.

In 2014, the governor-general granted current, future and living former administrators the title ofThe Honourable for life,[6] following the lead of Governors-General and Governors of New South Wales in granting the title.[citation needed]

The present administrator isHugh Heggie.

Crest of administrator

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The crest of Administrator of the Northern Territory which is similar to the one used by the Governor-General of Australia except that the flower below the Crown is theSturt Desert Rose, the floral emblem of the Northern Territory.

South Australia (1863 to 1912)

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On 6 July 1863, land now known as the Northern Territory was annexed to theColony of South Australia. Legislation regulating the sale of land in the Northern Territory which was given assent on 12 November 1863 included provision for both the appointment of aGovernment Resident and a description of the powers of this office.[7]

No.Government ResidentFromTo
1Boyle Travers Finniss3 March 1864[8]4 November 1865[9]
(acting)James Stokes MillnerJanuary 1870April 1870
2William Bloomfield Douglas27 April 1870June 1873[10]
(acting)James Stokes MillnerJune 1873[11]October 1873
3George Byng Scott6 October 187330 June 1876[12]
4Edward William Price1 July 18766 March 1883[13]
(acting)Gilbert Rotherdale McMinnMarch 1883[14]March 1884
5John Parsons19 March 188414 February 1890[15]
6John Knight16 July 189010 January 1892[16]
7Charles James Dashwood24 February 189231 January 1905[17]
8Charles Edward Herbert1 February 19058 February 1910[18]
9Samuel Mitchell1 April 191025 March 1912

Commonwealth of Australia (1912 to present)

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Administrators and Government Residents of theNorthern Territory after transfer of control to the Commonwealth Government:

Administrator (1912 to 1919)

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From left:MinisterJosiah Thomas, SirWalter Barttelot and AdministratorJohn Gilruth in 1912.
No.AdministratorFromTo
1John Gilruth25 March 19121 August 1919

Director (1919 to 1921)

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No.DirectorFromTo
1Henry Ernest Carey1 August 191917 January 1921

Administrator (1921 to 1927)

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No.AdministratorFromTo
1Frederic Urquhart17 January 19211 March 1927

Government Resident (1927 to 1931)

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From 1926 to 1931, theNorthern Territory was divided into the territories ofCentral Australia andNorth Australia, with the border at the20th parallel south. Each territory was administered by a Government Resident located respectively inAlice Springs (then known as Stuart) and inDarwin. Both territories were reincorporated as the Northern Territory in 1931.[19][20]

No.Government Resident (North Australia)FromTo
1Robert Weddell1 March 192712 June 1931
No.Government Resident (Central Australia)FromTo
1John Cawood1 March 192711 December 1929
2Victor Carrington11 December 192912 June 1931

Administrator (1931 to present)

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No.AdministratorFromTo
1Robert Weddell12 June 193129 March 1937
2Aubrey Abbott29 March 19371 July 1946
3Arthur Driver1 July 19461 July 1951
4Frank Wise1 July 19511 July 1956
5James Archer1 July 19561 April 1961
6Roger Nott1 April 19611 October 1964
7Roger Dean1 October 19644 March 1970
8Frederick Chaney4 March 197010 December 1973
9Jock Nelson10 December 197312 November 1975
10John England1 June 19781 January 1981
11CommodoreEric Johnston1 January 19811 July 1989
12James Muirhead1 July 19891 March 1993
13Austin Asche1 March 199317 February 1997
14Neil Conn17 February 199728 November 2000
15John Anictomatis28 November 200030 October 2003
16Ted Egan31 October 200331 October 2007
17Tom Pauling31 October 200731 October 2011
18Sally Thomas31 October 201110 November 2014
19John Hardy10 November 201430 October 2017
20Vicki O'Halloran31 October 201730 January 2023
21Hugh Heggie2 February 2023Present

Deputy of the Administrator (1997 to present)

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The office of theDeputy of the Administrator was established in 1997.

No.Deputy of the AdministratorFromTo
1Minna Sitzler[21]17 February 199730 November 2001
2Pat Miller[22]20 September 2002
3Fran Kilgariff15 February 2024present

See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related toAdministrators of the Northern Territory.

Notes

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  1. ^The termThe Crown is ambiguous. Relevantly here, the Crown may refer to thebody politic, or the sovereign and the capacity in which they act. In the first sense, the Northern Territory was established "as a body politic under the Crown".[2] In the second sense however, there is no legally distinct "Crown in right of the Northern Territory" from the federal Crown of Australia as the administrator's authority (as advised by Territory ministers) is derived from the Self Government Act (an act of theCommonwealth Parliament). This differs from the state governors, who represent directly the authority of the Crown, whose powers may be exercised according to the Australian Constitution. Academic Anne Twomey, in discussing the ambiguity notes that in Australia "the number of Crowns, in the sense of executive governments, may be different from the number of Crowns, in the sense of bodies politic, which in turn may be different from the number of Crowns the monarch might bear with respect to Australia."[3]

References

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  1. ^"Role of the Administrator".Government House Northern Territory. 22 September 2023.
  2. ^Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth) s 5.
  3. ^Twomey, Anne (2008)."Responsible government and the divisibility of the Crown".Public Law (Winter):748–50.ISSN 0033-3565 – via Westlaw UK.
  4. ^"Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 - SECT 32 Office of Administrator". Australian Government. Retrieved22 May 2019 – viaAustlii.
  5. ^"Dr Hugh Heggie PSM Appointed as Northern Territory Administrator" (Press release).Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories. 8 December 2022.
  6. ^Baker, Karen (30 July 2014)."Title Honourable for Administrators of the Northern Territory".Federal Register of Legislation. Australian Government. Retrieved22 May 2019.
  7. ^"The Northern Territory Act 1863 No. 23"(PDF). Government of South Australia. 12 November 1863. pp. 275 and 278–279. Retrieved18 May 2019.appoint an officer to be resident in the said territory, to be called the Government Resident, and all other necessary and proper officers for securing the order. and good government of the said territory
  8. ^Ayers, Henry (10 March 1864)."Untitled announcement of the appointment of the Government Resident of the Northern Territory"(PDF).The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 184. Retrieved18 May 2019.His Excellency has this day been pleased to appoint Boyle Travers Finniss, Esq., to be Government Resident in and for the New Territory recently annexed to this Province by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, bearing date July 6th, 1863
  9. ^"William Bloomfield Douglas"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 21 March 2011. Retrieved16 May 2011.
  10. ^"William Bloomfield Douglas"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 21 March 2011. Retrieved16 May 2011.
  11. ^"The Ministry have accepted the resignation ..."The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 9 June 1873. p. 2. Retrieved1 May 2012.
  12. ^"George Byng Scott"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 20 January 2012. Retrieved13 February 2012.
  13. ^"Gilbert Rotherdale McMinn"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 11 February 2012. Retrieved4 March 2012.
  14. ^"Appointment".Northern Territory Times and Gazette (Darwin, NT : 1873 - 1927). Darwin, NT: National Library of Australia. 31 March 1883. p. 1. Retrieved1 May 2012.
  15. ^"John Langdon Parsons"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 21 March 2011. Retrieved16 May 2011.
  16. ^"John George Knight"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 21 March 2011. Retrieved16 May 2011.
  17. ^"Charles James Dashwood"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 20 January 2012. Retrieved11 February 2012.
  18. ^"Charles Edward Herbert"(PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2 April 2011. Retrieved16 May 2011.
  19. ^Ling, Ted."Dividing the Territory, 1926–31".Commonwealth Government Records about the Northern Territory. National Archives of Australia. Archived fromthe original on 2 November 2022. Retrieved28 September 2018.
  20. ^"Biography: Previous Incumbents - Victor George Carrington"(PDF). Government House Northern Territory Government. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2 April 2011. Retrieved2 April 2012.
  21. ^"Appointment as Companions of the University, Minna Lydia Ruth Sitzler and Paul Otto Sitzler"(PDF). Charles Darwin University. Retrieved22 May 2019.
  22. ^"Dr Patricia Miller AO". Centre for Remote Health. Retrieved22 May 2019.

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