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TOP STORIES FROM THE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN REGION
States wrangle while dialysis patients suffer
Bureaucratic wrangling between the Northern Territory, WA and SA leaves patients uncertain of whether they'll be treated in Adelaide, Perth or Alice Springs. >>read more
CLC election
Lindsay Bookie is returned as chairman and for the first time the Central Land Council elects a woman as its deputy chair. >>read more
Cattlemen building their skills
Central Australian stockmen trained up for a future in the pastoral industry. >>read more
Doubt over the future of bush TV
The analogue system
received by communities on
a single satellite dish and
rebroadcast to households
will end by late 2013.
In its place will be a new
digital service but how this system will
work is currently causing
deep concern to Aboriginal
media services. >>read more
Friends step in to help Ampilitwatja
In mid-2009 a large group of Alyawarr people walked off Ampilitwatja to camp at Honeymoon Bore in protest at the appalling conditions in the community. With help from supporters they've built a house in three days to illustrate the hopeless attempts by the NT and Australian Governments to build houses on Aboriginal communities. >>read more
Government breaks promise to reinstate Racial Discrimination Act
The CLC has told a Senate inquiry inMarch that the Government’s Bill to restore the Racial
Discrimination Act does nothing to improve the most draconian measures of the NTER and
continues the spirit of bad faith embedded in that legislation. >>read more
Warlpiri stamp among Australia's favourites
A 1950 stamp featuring a Warlpiri man has been
voted Australia’s fourth most popular stamp
since stamps were first issued by New South
Wales in 1850. >>read more
Ilpurla Trail opened up as another world class walk
The Ilpurla Trail is being developed
through cooperation by Arrernte traditional
owners and the CLC
with tour
group Into the Blue Creative Walks based in Alice Springs. >>read more
Papunya ranger program takes off
The Central Land Council has
recently launched a three
month pilot ranger program at
Papunya west of Alice Springs.
The land management project
is based within the Haasts Bluff
Aboriginal Land Trust and jointly
funded by the NT government,
through the Eco-link initiative,
and the Commonwealth government. >>read more
Tennant Creek rangers burn for bush tucker
The Tennant Creek Muru Warinyi
Ankkul Rangers have supported
Tennant Creek’s Parks and Wildlife
Service (PWS) in one of their annual
fuel reduction burns at one
of the regions well-known sites
Karlu Karlu or the Devils Marbles
Conservation Reserve. >>read more
CLC ranger camp
Story and photographs from the CLC's 2010 ranger camp at Ross River. The camp was an extraordinary success and the rangers were all extremely happy to be able to get together and get themselves more skills to use back on their country. >>read more
Rare skink getting busy but still hiding
Docker River rangers have combined
with rangers from the
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to
help discover 14 new burrows of
the threatened Great Desert Skink
or Tjakura.>>read more
Mentoring plays crucial role for Aboriginal stockmen
Aboriginal mentors Les McLaughlin and Richard Kopp are helping young Indigenous stockmen involved in a joint Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association, Central Land Council and Indigenous Land Corporation course to find their way in the pastoral industry. >>read more
Book on Coniston Massacre making its way to Australian schools
A new book for school childern on the 1928 Coniston Massacre, which left hundreds of Aboriginal people dead north-west of Alice Springs, has recently been launched by the National Museum Australia. >>read more
Communities search for recognition
The Central Land Council says
more communities are likely to
investigate whether methods
such as creating an incorporated
body will give them a greater say
over their futures. >>read more
Rubuntja Centre honours two leaders
A new building that’s set to become
an education and medical
research hub for the Northern
Territory, has been named in
honour of two pioneering Indigenous
leaders of the past.>>read more
Use the Land Rights Act to decide if Muckaty should become a nuclear waste dump
The CLC has urged the
Federal Government and the NLC to
use section 19
of the Aboriginal Land
Rights Act to
ensure a proper
process is followed when deciding if Muckaty Station north of Tennant Creek should become a nuclear waste dump.
The Central Land
Council has welcomed
the news that two
sites in the CLC region
(Alcoota and Mt Everard)
will be formally
knocked off the list
of possible sites for the
national radioactive
waste dump. >>read more
News in brief >>read more
Listen Deeply
The Alice Springs Public Library and IAD Press launched a remarkable little book in March. >>read more
Continuing the search for Pemulwuy's remains
The UK Government will work
with its museums to return
the missing skull of Aboriginal
warrior Pemulwuy.
Sydney Indigenous leaders
raised Pemulwuy’s case with
Prince William during his visit
in January this year.
Pemulwuy
led the first war of resistance
against British settlers at the
Hawkesbury and Georges rivers,
Parramatta and Toongabbie.>>read more
Charlie King's campaign against violence
Anti-violence campaigner Charlie King writes that in
the past couple of years
Indigenous men have made a stand against
family violence and child
abuse. >>read more
Pics from around the Centre >>view more
100 turn up for Clontarf in Tennant Creek
In less than a year, the Tennant Creek Clontarf
Football Academy has increased its numbers to
about 100 participants and is seeing some good
results in school attendance.>>read more
NT cricketers cellar dwellers no more
The Northern Territory’s best Indigenous cricketers have received praise from coach Greg Aldam after competing at the annual Imparja Cup tournament in Alice Springs.>>read more
Central Australian footballers re-writing AFL history
Lajamanu's Liam Patrick and Rolland Ah Chee from Alice Springs are helping to build the Gold Coast Football Club, which next year, will become the AFL's 17th club. >>read more
Lightning Carnival
A page of photographs from the AFLCA's Lightning Football Carnival in Alice Springs. >>read more
