Program highlights

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.

In the morning, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory, as Patron, and Ms Ruth Jones received Mrs Judy Smith, President and Mrs Penny La Sette, Secretary, NT Breast Cancer Voice 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 a Courtesy Call with His Excellency Manpreet Vohra, High Commissioner of India to Australia, at the Indian High Commissioner’s Residence. Subsequently, His Honour, accompanied by Ms Jones, laid a wreath and attended a tour, of the Australian War Memorial. In the afternoon, the Administrator, accompanied by Ms Jones attended an Official Luncheon hosted by His Excellency Mr Kazuhiro Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan to Australia, at the Ambassador’s Residence. Afterwards, the Vice Regal couple attended a Courtesy Call with Her Excellency Vicki Treadell CMG MVO, British High Commissioner to Australia, at the British High Commissioner’s Residence.

In the morning, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones attended a morning Tea with His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) Governor –General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, at Government House Canberra. Afterwards, His Honour and Ms Jones attended a Courtesy Call with the Honourable Kristy McBain MP, Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories, at the Australian Parliament House. In the afternoon, the Administrator, accompanied by Ms Jones, laid a wreath in honour of the United States Marines who died in a Military plane crash in the Northern Territory and attended a Courtesy Call with Chargé D’affairs Erika Olson, Deputy Chief Mission and Colonel Aaron Brooks, Defence Attaché, United States Embassy Canberra, at the United States Ambassador’s Residence. Subsequently, the Vice Regal couple attended a Courtesy Call with His Excellency Dr Siswo Pramono, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to Australia, at the Indonesian Ambassador’s Residence. In the evening, His Honour, accompanied by Ms Jones, attended an Official Dinner hosted by His Excellency Mr Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, High Commissioner of Pakistan to Australia, at the High Commissioner’s Residence.

His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones undertook official travel to Canberra. Chief Justice Michael Grant AO is Acting Administrator during this period.

In the evening, His Honour Professor the Honourable Hugh Heggie PSM, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Ms Ruth Jones attended the Vietnamese Lantern Festival, at the Darwin Waterfront.