Each year Diabetes Australia uses National Diabetes Week to raise awareness about diabetes and to educate the public of the risk factors for type 2 diabetes and how it can be prevented.

1 July is, of course, the day we celebrate self-government in the Territory and there will, as usual, be public firework displays at various locations, including Mindil Beach where the sunset market will also be open.

It’s billed as an event 3.5 billion years in the making, so they’ve had plenty of time to rehearse for the one-night show marking Darwin’s bicentenary which takes place at 7.30pm on 1 July in Civic Park.