Program highlights

His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones undertook official travel to Alice Springs.

In the morning, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones attended and laid a wreath at the National Police Remembrance Day Ecumenical Service, at St Mary’s Star of the Sea Cathedral Darwin.

In the afternoon, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones attended a tour and briefing of the exhibition, 40: Celebrating four decades of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards at the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory. In the evening, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory, accompanied by Ms Ruth Jones, announced the Flash Fiction Award winner, at The Northern Territory Literary Awards 2023 presentation ceremony, at Parliament House.

In the evening, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory, as Patron, and Ms Ruth Jones hosted a reception at Government House for the Y, Northern Territory Youth Parliament Program.

In the morning, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones received His Excellency Mr Johan Pontus Melander, Ambassador of Sweden in Australia for a Courtesy Call.

In the morning, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones attended the 15th Birthday for the Bendigo Bank Nightcliff Community Branch.

In the afternoon, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones participated in the Reel Veterans Inc. Family Fishing Day, at Barramundi Adventures Darwin, in Berry Springs.

In the evening, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones attended the Fellowship and Awards Ceremony for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Northern Territory, at Parliament House.

In the afternoon, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones attended a tour and briefing of the exhibition ‘Celebrating four decades of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art’, at the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory.

In the afternoon, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones received His Excellency Mr Zsolt Csenger-Zalán, Ambassador of Hungary to Australia for a Courtesy Call. In the evening, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones hosted a State Dinner at Government House, for Senior Defence Force Officer’s in the Northern Territory.