CLC DELEGATES – REGION 1
Alice Springs
Barbara Shaw
Ms Shaw is the CLC deputy chair and wears many other hats. She chairs Aboriginal Investment NT and is a director of the Eynewantheyne Aboriginal Corporation.
She co-coordinated the Tangentyere Council’s family safety group targeting domestic violence in town camps and is a member of that council. A former youth worker, she served as an engagement officer with the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT.
She is a human rights advocate and ran as Green Party candidate in the seat of Lingiari. She is a member of the Uluru Statement working group, the National Nuclear Free Alliance and a founder, member and former co-chair of Aboriginal Housing NT.
She is a former member of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association and the Central Australian Aboriginal Programmes Unit and the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority board.
Henry Oliver
A first-time CLC delegate, Mr Oliver prepared for his election by serving as a proxy for Amoonguna. “I wanted to be delegate for a long time, my prayers have been answered”.
His father was a CLC delegate “for many years, fighting for homelands and helping people”.
He lives at Williams Well and wants “to speak up about homelands issues”.
He has been a director of Ingkerreke since 2015 and has done maintenance work for the MacDonnell Regional Council in Amoonguna for the past 12 years.
Mr Oliver is part of the joint committee that manages East MacDonnell Ranges parks and reserves such as the Emily and Jessie gaps and trail, Corroboree Rock and the Trephina and N’Dhala gorges.
Francis Hayes
Mr Hayes is part of the Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation as well as being a delegate with the Central Land Council.
“I worked a long time ago with Central Enterprise but nowadays I work for my community to take young people out bush camping. Teaching them about country. My role is mainly to try to teach them to be a leader for their own community and stop all the fighting.
As a CLC delegate I would like meet new people try and learn from others. Share knowledge between me and these other delegates, we can share our stories.”
Ingrid Williams
Former Centrelink employee at Services Australia.
Ms Williams enjoys studying and has completed three different courses to cert II, including courses in local government and business.
“I’m also a delegate for Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation. For both roles I want to help the town and get the kids off the street.”
Roseanne Ellis
Ms Ellis is an artist. Following in the footsteps of her uncle, she has been a CLC delegate since 2000 and executive committee member since 2022. “I want to listen to and communicate with the community.”
She chairs the Amoonguna Health Board and is a member of the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the Northern Territory. She is on the board of directors at the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, overseeing clinics in communities and speaking up for better support for chronic health issues.
She is also a director of the llmwernekenhe Aboriginal Corporation.
Ms Ellis is “proud of helping to make Amoonguna independent and taking control of things the community needs”.
She is a member of the CLC’s Amoonguna community development working group and says the walking trail between the Emily and Jessie gaps that the group planned and that traditional owners built is a highlight for her family.
Mark Inkamala
Mr Inkamala has been a councillor of the MacDonnell Regional Council since 2019.
Before his retirement he was as a welder and welding teacher at the Tjuwanpa Resource Centre, a researcher with NintiOne and a repatriation worker at the Strehlow Research Centre.
He is a member of Ntaria’s Wurla Nyinta reference group and the CLC’s local community development working group. He is proud of his work on the group’s projects, such as cemeteries upgrades, oval lights and the construction of the Western Bulldogs footy club, where he is also the president.
He was a CLC delegate between 2016 and 2019.
“This is my second time round as a CLC delegate. I feel good about representing my community. We need more change for Ntaria. We need more jobs here and we need more young people working. I’ll come back after council and report to the community.”
Roxanne Kenny
Ms Kenny has been the president of the MacDonnell Regional Council since 2017 and was its first deputy president. She is also a director of the Ntaria Supermarket.
“I look after 13 communities, from Docker River to Finke. That’s why I got my job as the president because I have to go to different language groups. I like travelling and going out to the all the different communities and helping them.
I want to help outstation people and see more outstations recognised. I have lived on my outstation, Yakala, for 25 years. We need more housing, renovations and maintenance. Overcrowding is still a big matter. I’m just looking forward to making a change with the other new delegates from this region.
We will work together and let people know what’s going on at council for our communities.”
Casey Kenny
Mr Kenny went to Yirrara College until year 9 and worked on stations during school holidays. He is a bus driver for Finke River Culture Tours and was a senior Tjuwanpa ranger when the group started.
He plans to speak up about the housing conditions and maintenance on his Arrkape homeland. He has been waiting for a new ceiling for years.
“The Tjuwanpa Resource Centre only do a little bit and you can wait for a couple of years to do one little thing. It’s pretty hard. Most of the things I do myself around my homeland.”
Maryanne Malbunka
Ms Malbunka works as an Aboriginal health practitioner for the Ntaria clinic.
She has worked for the health department for more than 30 years and as a tour guide. She was a bookkeeper at the Ipolera Aboriginal Corporation and worked with NT Parks rangers in conservation.
Ms Malbunka presents her community on the MacDonnell Regional Council.
“I like meeting different people and helping my people with their chronic health problems and interpreting for them.
I want to show what we can do for our kids and community.
I’d like to talk up about the outstations and their housing conditions and lack of water, electricity and roads. Especially in the summertime when we run out of water. We could go for six months without water.”
Glen Sharpe
Mr Sharpe has worked as a liaison officer at the Alice Springs Hospital since 2013. “I like speaking my language and helping patients and families to understand the medical side of things.
I worked at Aboriginal Legal Aid for seven years, helping clients to understand the law.”
When he was a health researcher at the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress he “learned that overcrowding is a big problem for health”.
He wants real jobs in remote communities, such as community worker or ranger. “Young people need to be trained properly for their work out bush. When you’re trained properly you have the confidence to go further. When you give people good jobs, they can help their family and their children to grow better.”
Vacant
Details coming.
Raymond Palmer
Community leader and school attendance officer at Ltyentye Apurte. Director and former chair of the community’s Atyenhenge Atherre Aboriginal Corporation and member of Ltyentye Apurte’s community development working group.
“The community elected me as a voice for Ltyentye Apurte. I am proud of representing my community as a CLC delegate and of achieving 90 per cent school attendance. Our school has a nutrition program, so our students have breakfast and lunch at school.”
Patrick Oliver
Mr Oliver is a former carpenter, station, aged care and dialysis worker who was educated at the Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) school.
He has been a CLC delegate since 1995 and advocates about “everything affecting us – homelands or communities”.
“I am proud of what I have done, where I am now and being a strong speaker. Being elected to speak on behalf of the family. That’s why they put me here.”
Andrew Wilyuka
Details coming.
Steven Abbott
Mr Abbott works for the Aboriginal Interpreter Service and has mustered and fenced on cattle stations.
“I am proud to represent my people. I have grown up seeing all the old leaders, going to a lot of CLC meetings as young kids with my father Bernard Abbott, and then I was proxy for my brother Gordon Abbott for a couple of years. My grandfather Bruce Breaden also worked at the CLC in the 70s.” Mr Breaden also chaired the CLC several times between 1985 and 2003.
He would like to get young people back into work through the reopening of the Wallace Rockhole orchard and wants to speak out about housing issues.
“It’s been really hard here without a shop [closed since 2024], having to drive to Hermannsburg and Alice Springs for food. A lot of people are starting to move out because we don’t have a shop.
I want to be the voice for all our people. For our younger generation and old people. We need to get a shop out here and more jobs and opportunities for young people.”