Minister: City Deal

minister: With Darwin's economy slower now that the city's US40 billion 55 billion Japanese-owned Icthys gas mega-project is built and much of the jobs are gone, the City Deal is a relief for the Northern Territory Labor Government, according to Nine News Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the deal ahead of a meeting on Friday with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is the first Japanese leader to visit Darwin since World War II, during which Darwin was bombed. To improve your experience update it here News National Darwin gets 200m to boost infrastructure2 12pm Nov 16, northern capital Darwin will get 1100 new university students and a CSIRO laboratory working on making tropical cities more livable as part of a 200 million federal City Deal. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Urban Living Lab will make Darwin a key researcher for how you run liveable cities in tropical areas around the world and create cooler, greener streetscapes, Mr Morrison told reporters. Just to our north East Asia these are big challenges for those cities and how they cope with living in tropical areas with modern urban centres. The 'Urban Living Lab' investment will be in greening the city and ensuring they can mitigate temperatures in the city, he said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.