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Darwin's only gay nightclub is closing after 24 years because of building safety issues.

Throb Nightclub has been placed into liquidation after the venue's directors on Wednesday voted to wind the company up and appoint Adelaide-based firm Tarquin Koch Accounting and Insolvency Services as liquidator.

The Northern Territory government had shut down the nightclub in September last year because the Manolas building on Smith Street was deemed to be unsafe.

Liquidator Tarquin Koch told Daily Mail Australia this had stopped Throb Nightclub from trading.

'A business that can't trade is a business that's going to fail,' he said.

'It had an unsafe order slapped on it with issues with the slab and that has been an ongoing issue with directors liaising with the relevant government departments and their landlord to try and rectify, so they can open the doors and obviously trade but they haven't been able to do so.

'Hence the requirement to go into liquidation.

'They can't trade due to the orders made on the actual building, which they are a tenant.' 

The Northern Territory's Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics' Director of Building Control had forced the nightclub to close

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