CLC DELEGATES – REGION 5
West
Douglas Multa
Mr Multa is a director of the Papunya store, Memory Mountain Limited and the Ngurratjuta Aboriginal Corporation and chairs Ikuntji’s store corporation. He represents the CLC on the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority board.
He used to work at the store and for the community’s night patrol.
The former stockman and Warumpi Band roadie is a member of the CLC’s community development working group. He is also on the MacDonnell Regional Council’s local authority and housing reference group.
“I am proud of what I stand for. I stand for my people, my land and my culture. Culture and the land are very important. I am a role model for young people. I have a voice for everyone, not just my community. My family comes first. I am most proud of them.”
My dad, Joe Multa, was on the CLC before and my uncle, Mr Nelson, too. We have a connection through ceremony. My grandad and Mr Long also taught me everything.”
Arnold Butler
Mr Butler is director of Memory Mountain Limited and a member of the Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) store committee.
He first became a CLC delegate in 2021. “I want to learn about land council.”
Like his father Keith, Mr Butler works with horses. “I teach young fellas to ride and I need equipment for that. I also I do horse yard fencing.
We need more resources, housing for outstations and equipment. Better education for kids and training for adults in literacy, reading and writing.
I am proud of living on my outstation.”
Terrence Abbott
Mr Abbott has been a long-time Anangu Luritjiku ranger.
“The ranger program makes me proud. That’s why I made it up to 10 years. I taught myself along the way, become who I am now. Before the ranger program, I was nothing. Now I want to represent my community.”
He is on the management committee of the Central Western Desert Indigenous Protected Area and hosted the declaration of the IPA in March 2025, near his homeland at Ilpili.
“I most wanted to talk about outstations, that’s why [Papunya homelands residents] vote for me. I like to help them to move back, take the kids back so families can live on country. A lot of people are really worried about the kids. They want to be able to go back to outstations. Me too, I’ve been talking about it for a long time and I feel like I want to move that way and manage our country.”
Mr Abbott is the deputy chair of the Papunya store board and a member of the MacDonnell Regional Council’s local authority and housing reference group.
He is also on the steering committee of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Newhaven sanctuary.
Dalton McDonald
Mr McDonald is the deputy president of the McDonnell Regional Council and chairs the Papunya Community Store Aboriginal Corporation.
A member of the CLC’s local community development working group, he is proud of positive changes, such as the new change rooms at the footy oval and the work towards a water park.
He visits prisons as part of the Elders Visiting Program which helps people find jobs and purpose when they leave jail.
He is also a member of the National Indigenous Australians Agency’s Aboriginal leadership group and the MacDonnell Regional Council’s housing reference group.
The late Sid Anderson and Dalton Abbott took him to regional meetings and shaped his path as a leader.
Tony Eggley
Mr Eggley wants to keep his culture and community strong. He has worked for his community’s night patrol and the Power and Water Corporation.
Before his election to the CLC he sometimes attended council meetings as a proxy delegate. He wants to advocate for renal dialysis patients, to keep them home.
“I like traveling around with my family, showing them country and teaching them.”
Patrick Collins
Mr Collins is a former maintenance worker at the McDonnell Regional Council.
“I worked for the community council for a long time, cleaning up the community, doing plumbing and repairs to housing. Now I am fixing cars and like to travel around seeing country. I have a happy family. I am proud of them.”
He first became a CLC delegate in 2023.
“It’s good to travel and see country and join with the other delegates. I am learning more with this mob, like to speak on the microphone and hope to learn more in the next council meeting from the delegates.
I can share what I learn and talk up for young people, to keep them in communities. It would be good to get men and women’s centres for our young people. I want to talk up for new houses on homelands.”
Justin Corby
Mr Corby has been an assistant teacher at the Walungurru (Kintore) school since 2020 and previously held the same position in Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) for 10 years.
He is a first-time delegate who wants to speak up for homelands.
“Some of our outstations are struggling for water, so the people can’t stay there.”
“I’m following in my father Lindsay Corby’s footsteps. He was also a CLC delegate and kept the community strong. I used to come with my father to land council meetings. I learnt a lot from him.”
He chairs the board of the Walungurru store.
“I’m also in the law and justice group, helping young people in Kintore when we have the bush court here and do the elders visiting program in the Alice Springs jail”
Mr Corby is also a member of the management committee for the Central Western Desert Indigenous Protected Area.
Victor Robinson
Mr Robinson is proud of sharing his knowledge, language and culture. He trained as a teacher in Darwin in 1975, then taught at the Walungurru (Kintore) school for 13 years.
He has worked for the former community council, been a police aide, learned plumbing, trained locals in the trade and worked for the Power and Water Corporation.
He is a member of the community’s law and justice committee, a director of the store and the board of the Pintupi Homelands Health Service.
He is proud to follow in the footsteps of his father, Benny Tjapaltjarri, who also shared his knowledge with others.
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