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Government House is the office and official residence of the Administrator of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia.[1]

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  1. 29 relations: Administrator (Australia), Administrator of the Northern Territory, Aubrey Abbott, Australian War Memorial, Bomb, Bombing of Darwin, Cyclone, Darwin rebellion, Darwin, Northern Territory, Earthquake, Effigy, Europe, Gothic Revival architecture, Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth, Harriet Douglas Daly, Hilda Abbott, John A. Gilruth, Josiah Thomas (politician), List of official residences of Australia, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia), Northern Territory, Northern Territory Heritage Register, Official residence, Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Register of the National Estate, Sir Walter Barttelot, 3rd Baronet, Termite, Trade union, William Bloomfield Douglas.

  2. Government Houses of Australia
  3. Northern Territory Government
  4. Northern Territory Heritage Register
  5. Northern Territory places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
  6. Victorian architecture in Australia

Administrator (Australia)

The title Administrator of the government (Administrator) has several uses in Australia.

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Administrator of the Northern Territory

The administrator of the Northern Territory is an official appointed by the governor-general of Australia to represent the Crown in right of the Northern Territory.

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Aubrey Abbott

Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott (4 May 1886 – 30 April 1975) was an Australian politician and public servant.

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Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial and museum dedicated to all Australians who died during war.

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Bomb

A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.

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Bombing of Darwin

The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.

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Cyclone

In meteorology, a cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone).

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Darwin rebellion

The Darwin rebellion of 17 December 1918 was the culmination of unrest in the Australian Workers' Union which had existed between 1911 and early 1919.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Effigy

An effigy is a sculptural representation, often life-size, of a specific person or a prototypical figure.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth

A Government House is any residence used by governors-general, governors and lieutenant-governors in the Commonwealth and the British Empire.

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Harriet Douglas Daly

Harriet Douglas Daly (c. 1854 – 25 August 1927) was an author and journalist who wrote about the Northern Territory and as a London correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Hilda Abbott

Hilda Gertrude Abbott (9 September 1890 – 26 May 1984) was the wife of the former Administrator of the Northern Territory, Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott.

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John A. Gilruth

John Anderson Gilruth (17 February 1871 – 4 March 1937) was a Scottish-Australian veterinary scientist and administrator.

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Josiah Thomas (politician)

Josiah Thomas (28 April 1863 – 5 February 1933) was an Australian politician.

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List of official residences of Australia

Below is a list of official residences of Australia. Government House, Darwin and list of official residences of Australia are government Houses of Australia.

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Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, also known as the Foreign Minister, is the minister of state of the Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing the creation and implementation of international diplomacy, relations and foreign affairs policy, as the head of the foreign affairs section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Northern Territory Heritage Register

The Northern Territory Heritage Register is a heritage register, being a statutory list of places in the Northern Territory of Australia that are protected by the Northern Territory statute, the Heritage Act 2011.

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Official residence

An official residence is a residence designated by an authority and assigned to an official (such as a head of state, head of government, governor, or other senior figures), and may not always be the same place where the office holder conducts their official functions or lives.

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Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II

The Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II was the international celebration in 2022 marking the 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952.

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Register of the National Estate

The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007.

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Sir Walter Barttelot, 3rd Baronet

Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, 3rd Baronet, DSO (22 March 1880 – 23 October 1918) was of the Barttelot Baronetcy and grandson of Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet.

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Termite

Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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William Bloomfield Douglas

William Bloomfield Douglas (25 September 1822 – 5 March 1906), generally known as "Bloomfield Douglas" or "Captain Douglas", was a Welsh naval officer and public servant.

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See also

Government Houses of Australia

Northern Territory Government

Northern Territory Heritage Register

Northern Territory places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate

Victorian architecture in Australia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_House,_Darwin