Darwin is unique among Australia’s capital cities, it is the smallest, northernmost, wettest and warmest of them all and one of its biggest fans is the city’s Greek-born Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis who will be putting himself up for re-election in August.
“Many people realise living in big cities has its advantages until things go wrong,” Cr Vatskalis told Neos Kosmos. One of the things that has gone wrong over the past year has, of course, been the COVID-19 pandemic, which Darwin has so far managed to handle with better results than in the south-eastern end of the nation.