CLC DELEGATES – REGION 2
Southwest
Kathleen Luckey
“My husband, Mr Wongway, was a CLC delegate and I learned from him. We used to go to council meetings together.”
Ms Lucky chairs Imanpa’s local (government) authority and a director of the Iyanha kularta Aboriginal Corporation. She is a member of the CLC’s local community development working group and represents Imanpa at Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area committee meetings and many other gatherings.
“Our issue here is housing. It needs to be upgraded. There are lots of people coming back to the community and it’s overcrowded.” She also works on CLC community development projects.
She is pleased with the 2024 Karinga Lakes native title determination. “I’m happy that we got our native title back. My husband really fought for that.”
Before retiring to Imanpa she worked in the Aputula (Finke) community’s school and store. “I am happy to be with family and friends. I want our community to grow and our young people to come on board.”
Abraham Paddy
Details coming.
Rita Jingo
Ms Jingo is an artist who has worked as an Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park ranger and tour guide.
She is a member of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation board, a member of the CLC’s local community development working group and a proxy member of the board of the national park.
Ms Jingo helps to run a cultural tourism experience at her homeland on the land trust surrounding the park that involves five generations of her family.
“I’ve got some people helping me with inma, dancing, so tourists and little ones can see and learn about tjukurpa and history.”
She wants to speak up “for outstations, for water, new roads, housing, new buildings and travelling for cultural business. Women’s law and culture. We need somewhere safe outside the national park to sit down”.
She wants to follow in the footsteps of her late father and long-term CLC delegate, Johnny Jingo, and her father–in–law, Lindsay Paddy.
“It’s in my heart to be strong and speak up for our land and for our kids.”
Leroy Lester
Details coming.
Jacob Yarma
Mr Yarma works for the Utju (Areyonga) clinic, driving patients to Alice Springs.
He has worked for the now defunct community councils and the MacDonnell Regional Council in Kaltukatjara (Docker River), Utju and Mutitjulu for 15 years, removing rubbish, fencing, grave digging and supplying firewood for the aged care. He has protected rock holes from camels with the CLC’s land management team and helped to build the camel yards near Tjunti.
“I’m the first person in my family to be a CLC delegate, and maybe all my kids will follow in my footsteps.
Our people need help and that’s why I got to speak up for my people, because we have bad roads and bad telephone service.
We used to fix potholes with gravel, but now we don’t get help from the shire. We need support from the shire to get work.
We need our white cards so we can do the work. Our young people need jobs. People want to work. I’m going to talk up for this on the council.”
Barnaby Kunia
Details coming.
Norman Kulitja
Details coming.
Jennifer Breadon
Former teacher’s assistant at Lilla school for four years. Has worked as an Aboriginal liaison officer at Central Australian Aboriginal Congress since 2012.
“I am a delegate because of my dad [former Central Land Council chair Bruce Breadon]. I have followed him since that day in 1976 when he was at the first council meeting.”
Gwen Gillen
Ms Gillen works for the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group and paints at the Tangentyere Artists Gallery.
She is proud to follow in the footsteps of her late mum, Julie Clyne.
“I want to go back to country and clean up the houses. Get yards clean, houses repaired and get locked gates on the houses. Clean up the land. Grow more trees and for the kids. Speak up to government. We need water tanks cleaned out or replaced so people can drink clean water.”
David Doolan
“I wanted to be a delegate because I love my country and my community. I have got to support my community. There are lot of things that I’m looking at doing as a delegate like getting young people working.”