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Tradeschoolopens

Trainee Gerraye Maher at the Larrakia Trade Training Centre

By NIGEL ADLAM

$3m donation

Naoki Kuroda

INPEX president NaokiKuroda arrives in Darwintomorrow to help open anew trades training centre.

He will be joined by fed-eral Resources MinisterMartin Ferguson and ChiefMinister Paul Henderson forthe ceremony on Friday.

The Japanese gas com-pany donated $3 milliontowards building the skillsschool at Winnellie.

Mr Kuroda’s decision tobe in on the opening cere-mony is seen as further evi-dence that Inpex will goahead with its $30 billionDarwin LNG project.

The trades centre is thebrainchild of the LarrakiaDevelopment Corporationand will be known as theLarrakia Trade TrainingCentre. But it is open to allwould-be apprentices andwill be a key tool in combat-ing the Territory’s shortageof skilled workers in tradit-ional trades.

Mr Kurodasaid he wasproud to be in-volved in such a‘‘first class’’venture.

He said thefunding had been agreedonly 12 months ago, but thecentre was now open – ‘‘ontime and on budget’’.

The resources boss said hewould monitor the progressof the trades school.

He said Inpex would workwith the Larrakia Develop-ment Corporation to developfurther ‘‘business and em-ployment’’ opportunities.

The trades school, whichhas already started taking inapprentices and trainees,has state-of-the-art equip-ment, including virtual ex-periences in excavator andtruck driving.

Development Corporationchairman Nigel Brown saidthe response from industrytowards the new trainingcentre had been ‘‘over-whelmingly positive’’.

Miningworker’sdrivingambitionBy NIGEL ADLAM

Chellsey Morrison

BANK worker Chellsey Mor-rison was looking for a seachange in life.

So she counted someoneelse’s money for the lasttime and signed up to do amining course.

‘‘I wanted to do somethingdifferent,’’ she said. ‘‘I want-ed to work outdoors andthought it would be fun towork in the mines.’’

She now drives watercarts, caterpillars and dumptrucks at the Frances Creekiron ore mine and improvesher skills by attending thenew Larrakia Trade Train-ing Centre in Darwin.

Chellsey has a soft spot forwhat she calls the ‘‘babytrucks’’ — they weigh in at amere 80 tonnes.

She lives at the mine camp,30km from Pine Creek, withher boyfriend Kerryn.

Chellsey works 14 daysstraight and then headshome to Katherine for sevendays. ‘‘It’s always great to gethome and sleep in your ownbed,’’ she said.

The driver said the switchto mining gave her ‘‘an awe-some lifestyle’’.

‘‘I definitely see myselfstaying in mining. Every dayis different. It’s great work-ing with a close team — weare all good mates,’’ she said.

Chellsey’s ambition is tolearn how to drive loaders,graders and diggers.

‘‘That will take time. I haveto earn my stripes first,’’she said.

Shell under pressureSYDNEY: Oil giantShell will decidewithin weekswhether to turn itsSydney refinery,which supplies al-most half of thestate’s fuel, into animport terminal.

Shell says the75,000 barrel per dayClyde Refinery and

Gore Bay terminalcan no longer com-pete with a numberof mega-refineriesbeing built in Asia,due to its small size.

The Shell boardwill make a decisionwithin comingweeks, following aperiod of consultat-ion with employees.