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Seafood Trading

Memories of the Galiwin’ku Seafood Pty Ltd during the 1960’s & 1970’s Pull out double page special, Pages 6 & 7

Rronaŋ & Mayawurrthalawuy 1976We used to bring the fish in and weigh them. Then we

used to fillet it, pack it up properly, all the filleted fish, and then put it in the boxes and put it in the cool room and when the plane comes every week we used to send it to Darwin

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Local radio network is back on air, Galiwin’ku fm 106.7 recently returned to the air-waves with support through TEABBA (Top End Abo-riginal Bush Broadcasting Association). Tune in daily to listen to TEABBA with broadcasts right across the top end as well as Galiwin’ku local broadcasts. James Bayung is Galiwin’kus’ local broad-caster and is gearing up to hold a regular show on week day mornings. The show will be broadcast through Galiwin’ku and some days will ‘patch’ into the 29 other remote units which TEABBA support. James will continue to

broadcast and a regular time for shows will be advertised shortly. The show will have:• Local Community

Information• News and Weather• Music Requests• Interviews and InfoCommunity messages can be given to the DFM team at their office (BRACS) oremail us news@marthakal.org or you can leave a note for James Bayung at the Shireoffices.

Galiwin’ku Community Radio

By Cathie Martin

Shepherdson College & Batchelor Institute of

Indigenous Tertiary Education

Invite all members of the Galiwin’ku Community

to a

Graduation Ceremony

for the celebration of conferral awards and Issuing of Academic Transcripts

Where: Community Church lawnsWhen: Friday 16th September

From: 1:30pm

Shepherdson College and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education will hold their first graduation celebrations in Galiwin’ku. Community members, family and friends are asked to attend and cele-brate the achivements of those who will be awarded.

Graduation Celebrations

Bachelor of EducationValerie BulkunuAdvanced Diploma of Arts (Language and Linguistics)HelenRrikawukuCertificate IV In Education SupportJoanne Guyula (graduate in absentia)Certificate IV In Indigenous Education WorkLisa Dayngipu BukulatjpiSylviaBulutjangaBukulatjpiJoy Mundhu Dhamarrandji

Dianne Christine Dickson (graduate in absentia)Ruth Gulamanda DhurrkayNatasha Djapu MunyarryunJean Yurranydjil DhurrkayCertificate III In Education SupportJohnny Minyarama GarawirrtjaCertificate III In Indigenous Education WorkSusanMalpunhdharrGanambarrRenelle GondarraRoslyn Malngumba (graduate in absentia)

Above: Some of those students who will be achiev-ing thier awards on Friday 16th September

September 20112nd September Keep Galiwin’ku Clean2nd - 4th September Bak’bididi Festival,

Ramingining3rd September 2011 S’Art Days,

Elcho Island Arts5th - 9th September Adult Dentist7th September Child & Youth

Wellbeing Interagency meeting

9th September Keep Galiwin’ku CleanNational Event

10th September NT Training AwardsDarwin

12th September Multi-purpose Hall discussions

13th - 14th September Core of Life training through FaFT-IPSS program

14th September Financial Literacy & Numeracy LIP Action - LRG

15th - 17th September Wellness Camp for families of young children at Dhuḏupu

15th - 16th September HRG Meeting16th September Shepherdson College &

BITE Graduation Ceremony

16th September Keep Galiwin’ku Clean19th - 25th September ARDS

Employment Education for Yolŋu Women

21st September LRG MeetingYouth Agenda

23rd September Keep Galiwin’ku Clean23rd - 25th September Gattjirrk Festival,

Milingimbi27th September Deadly Awards27th September Full Moon28th September Economic Participation

LIP Building Block28th September EASC Council Meeting,

Nhulunbuy30th September Heads of Agency

Meeting30th September Keep Galiwin’ku Clean

When the Powerhouse Mu-seum came to Elcho Island, they were told a story about weaving by Mavis Ganam-barr.Mavis told them a story about what her grandmoth-er had said to her when she was young.“She said tome,maybe ifyou don’t leave weaving, one day you will go on that big airplane; to the city. And you will see all those bright lights and people.”On July 28 Mavis went to Sydney for the sixth time:This time toattend theex-hibition of Yuta Badayala, which was included in the LoveLaceexhibitionatthePowerhouse Museum.The frame for the lamp-shade was made by furni-ture design business, Ko-skela, who sent it to Elcho Island in December 2009 for Mavis to weave pan-danus around.Mavis said when Koskela sent the lampshade to El-

cho Island she thought it was only going to be a me-dium size.“But it was huge,” she said. Mavis also led a master class at the Powerhouse Museum while she was in Sydney. In the class, shetaught 16 people how to make a coil basket and hand woven mat using pan-danus. Love Lace Event Co-ordi-nator, Deborah Vaughan said the Powerhouse Mu-seumcould have filled theclass three times over.“We would love to run an-other master class with weavers from Elcho Island,” she said.

Mavis and the PowerhouseCommunity SurveyColmar Brunton research team interviewed com-munity members back in June about how lives had changed since the Northern Territory Inter-vention. The Community Safety and Wellbeing Re-search Study is 45 pagesand was presented to the Local Reference Group.101 residents were inter-viewed and the findingswere recorded. Questions about services, safety, cul-ture, family and housing were asked. The survey asked 28 ques-tionswithatickboxanswerand open-ended questions that allowed an explaina-tion of thier views on a range of issues.Copies of the Community Safety and Wellbeing Re-search Study can be ob-tained through the Govern-ment Business Manager Robert Johnson or Indig-enous Engagement OfficeMavisDaŋanbarr.

Margaret Dipulpuy started work with ALPA on the 5thAugust 1985 at the store inGaliwin’ku.Shehasnowcom-pleted 26 years of work with ALPA, working in the store and serving her community.ALPA congratulates Dipulpuy on reaching this milestone - 26 years of service is a great achievement for any employ-ee, particularly in a remote community where so much has changed during a short period of time. Any employee, regardless of the company or location, should be congratu-lated for working for such a long time with a company and dedicating the bulk of their working life to one organi-zation. Dipulpuy has earnt ALPAs appreciation and the gratitude of her colleagues and community for many years of hard work and effort at their store.In her long career at ALPA, Dipulpuy has worked in al-most all areas of the store, gaining valuable experienceand knowledge that she has passed on to other staff that have sometimes stayed and sometimes moved on. It takes great patience, energy and commitment to continually train and mentor staff.

Dipulpuy has been a store worker, supervisor and assis-tant manager at times when the manager has been sick or away and ran the store for short periods of time. Marga-ret has good management ability but decided not to pursue management so she could spend more time with her family as retail manage-ment is a demanding job with long hours at the store.As the longest serving super-visor at the Galiwin’ku store Dipulpuy has led, mentored and trained many staff in many different duties around the store. She has alwaysbeen a mentor and provided fantastic support for the store managers, particularly when they are new and need guid-ance. Senior management,including myself, seek her ad-vice and respect her opinion on matters around the store, its staff and how to serve our customers better.As APLA nears its 40th an-niversary, it is our long-term staff like Dipulpuy who has been there with the corpora-tion for the longest journey. ALPAisaYolŋubusinessandYolŋuappreciateourBalanda

management come to help run ALPA for a time, but they comeandgo. It is ourYolŋustaff like Dipulpuy who gives ALPA ongoing support and have helped it survive the tough times so it can become stronger and serve our mem-bers into the future.Dipulpuy has made an impor-tant contribution to ALPA over 26 years of dedicated service. ALPA is better and stronger today because of our staff like her.On behalf of the Board of Di-rectors, ALPA staff and man-agement congratulate and thank you. We look forward to many more years of valued contribution to ALPA.

Alastair KingGeneral Manager

Expressions of Interest

Audit Committee MembersEast Arnhem Shire Council is seeking expressions of interest to be part of Council’s Audit Committee.

Two independent member positions are available.

It is expected that members can commit to attending at least 3 (three) meetings per year in Darwin, Nhulunbuy and other communities in NT and at least one independent member will have relevant accounting qualifications (CPA/CA or equivalent).

The role of the audit committee is:• Oversight of compliance with

statutory responsibilities and council policies

• Assessment of internal financial accounting and management controls

• Review of risk management strategies and initiatives

• Adequacy of audit scope and coverage• Monitoring the effectiveness and

efficiency of internal and external audit• Management response and timeliness

of action taken to correct audit findings Indigenous community members are encouraged to apply.

Expressions of interest can be a simple letter together with your resume and must be marked “Private and Confidential” and addressed to:

Bruce MollerGovernance ManagerEast Arnhem Shire CouncilGPO Box 1060NHULUNBUY NT 0881

Or by email to: bruce.moller@eastarnhem.nt.gov.au

Expressions of interest should be submitted by the close of business on Wednesday, 14 September 2011.

For further information, please contact Bruce Moller (08) 8943 9564.

Chief Executive OfficerIan Bodill

Celebrating 26 Years with ALPA

The winners of the first an-nual Galiwin'ku writing com-petition were congratulated in a special assembly held at Shepherdson College on 30August.This year 80 people entered the competition and there were 27 winners in total."We have had a lot of fun reading your stories," said Noela Hall from the Literacy Production Centre (LPC)."All your stories are well worth

reading."Stories were written in bothYolŋumathaandEnglishandprizes were divided into three categories: winner, runner up and encouragement.A story written by Natasha Bururrwaŋa called "The Col-ourfulTree"and "YolŋuYäkuGarr" written by Jermaine Campbell were awarded a contract with the LPC who will print copies of their stories.Prizes were donated by

Shepherdson College, EastArnhemShire,GraceHooper,Kaye Thurlow, ALPA, George fromBottomShop,MarthakalHomeland Resource Centre, Lynne Walker, Bryan Hughes and the Department of Education and Training ArnhemDistrictOffice.

Pictured left is Natasha Bururrwaŋa and JermaineCampbell

Somedays it seems like theladies who work at the art centre are always getting on planes and flying to placeslike Darwin, Sydney, Londonand Malaysia. But what do they do while they are away? TheGaliwin'kupuyDhäwude-cided to ask these hard work-ing ladies some questions to findoutwhattheydidontheirmost recent trip to the Darwin Art Fair.Mavis Ganambarr and Judy Manany:We worked hard while we were in Darwin, same as we work here. But here we take ladies out to the bush to get

pandanus and colours and then we come back to art centre and share the colours, strip, dye and weave the pan-danus.But when we go to Darwin, we show Balanda the same things and tell stories. At lot of Balanda come to me and Judy and ask questions. We tell them the same story we tell here: The pandanus story, the painting story.We are not doing this for fun, we are doing this for serious. We are growing this art centre for the next generation. Weare watering it so it will grow. We are showing our culture to

theworldandthenextgener-ations so they will pass it on.Margaret Dhorrpuy: It was my first time to the DarwinArt Fair. There were a lot of people to meet and talk to and they were asking lots of questions about Elcho Island art. They wanted to know the story behind all the can-vasesandbarkpaintings.Sowe would tell them and make them understand. We don't speak our language at the Art Fair with other people and Ba-landa, so it's a really hard job.People would come to buy the work and I would put the bank cards through and give out certificatesandwraptheirartworks and give them out. Someoldfriendscamealongto say hello and I was really excited. The art fair is like abig market. We can go round and see what all the other art-ists are doing. The fabric from the Tiwi Islands are very nice. Ienjoyedmyfirst timeat theArt Fair, I loved it.

Darwin Art Fair

Shepherdson College Writing Winners

By Cathie Martin

By Cathie Martin

1. First we put the soil in the pots and make a holewithourfinger.

2. We add our seeds to the soil3. Our seeds grow into seedlings ready toplant in the garden. These seedlings are snow peas.

4. Some of our bug juicy watermelon fromthe school garden.

5. After all the hard work we get to enjoymanymak natha

6. Everybody is happy sharing the watermelon.

From little things, big things grow!Did you know ShepherdsonCollege has a school gar-den?Students fromShepherdsonCollege Ellemor Block (years 4,5,and6),Western7andMobile School have been

working hard! Each class has a garden les-son for one hour a week with the garden teacher Abby, they walk down to the gar-den to do many different jobs such as digging, planting,

weeding, and watering.Studentshavebeenlearningabout how to grow many dif-ferent foods that they have in the garden like bananas, watermelon, cucumber, cap-

sicum, tomatos, beans, cas-sava, lemon grass and paw paw. They have been learn-ing that all plants need sun, soil and water to grow. The aim is to educate stu-dents about the garden, how to plant and when the right time is to harvest the food –

sometimes waiting for food to grow is the hardest part. Hopefully they can use their knowledge to grow a garden at their own home.We should celebrate the stu-dent’s hard work and new learnt skills!

The Census 2011 at Galiwin'ku is finishedAll the Census forms have been com-pleted and sched-uled to be picked up on 1st September.What an effort by everyone involved. A big thank you to all the community as there was mostly a great atmosphere of cooperation to get a really accurate count for Census 2011. There organ-ising team worked tirelessly for the past four weeks and did a fantastic job. How-ever, they would not have achieved this success without the fantastic help from the Collector/Inter-viewer team of over 20 helpers. Many of these helpers were staff at the school and did the Census collection work af-ter school and dur-ing the weekend. There were other helpers as well from within the commu-

nity. They battled sickness, tiredness, funerals, dust, dogs, 'casino players', family demands, weekend 'hunters' and many other dis-tractions.Preliminary details indicateasignificantincrease from the 2006 figures, butfewer people than many estimate. It is considered that be-tween5%and10%of people in the com-munity were missed. Final confirmed fig-

ures and data will not be issued by the ABSuntilnextyear.However, raw data indicates that there isabout1925Yolŋuand265Balandaliv-ing in the Galiwin’ku community, with another 186 peo-ple (166 Yolŋu and20 Balanda) in the homeland communi-ties on Elcho Island. C O N G R AT U L A -TIONS TO EVERY-ONE INVOLVED, YOU CERTAINLY COUNTED.

Galiwin'ku Census 2011 Team. L to R. Beth Thorne, Helen Nuŋgalurr, EvonneMitjarrandi, Heather Yeparrŋa and KayeThurlow,withtheCensusdataallboxedupready to send to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Fourteen artists have transformed the appearance of the hotel in Galinwin'ku.Over a period of two weeks, Tommy Min-burra, Sandy Pascoe,Richard Gundhuwuy, Linda Namilya Bopirri, Ruth Lulwurriwuy, Timmy Galalingu, Judy Manany, Maragert Gudumurrku-wuy, Jeremiah Bon-son, Mavis Ganambarr, Jonny Yunupiŋu, SusanBonal, Sabasko Pascoeand SharonWunuŋmura

worked alongside print maker, Sean Smith topaint a huge mural on the outside and inside of the hotel.Guests staying at the hotel can now look up at Elcho Island bush food

painted on the walls above the servery inside.From the outside they can see the whole of El-cho Island painted on the walls and all the plants, animals and sea life that surround it.

Wall of Art

Telstra Art AwardsFour artists from Elcho Is-landwerefinalists in thisyear's Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslanderArtAward.Gali Yalkarriwuy, Peter Datjiŋ, Richard Djarri-mili and Jeremiah Bon-son were applauded by the many people who had gathered at the Mu-seum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) on the evening of 11 August. MAGNT Director, Pierre Arpin said all finalists

in this year's Telstra Art Award had contributed outstanding pieces to the prestigiousexhibition.Judges for this years award, indigenous art-ists Daniel Mellor and Nici Cumpston and in-digenous arts curator, Judith Ryan awarded the Wandjuk Marika Memo-rial Three Dimensional Award to Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi for his work Banumbirr. "Gali's poles emanate a sense of power and pres-

ence," said the judges."The meticulous attention to detail, finesse of pro-duction and truth to ma-terialexemplifythedepthof his cultural ritual and knowledge."Telstra Chief Customer Officer, Gordon Bal-lantyne said all works featured in this years's awards told wonderful stories and gave an op-portunity for audiences to view the world from vari-ous artists perspectives from around Australia.

By Cathie Martin

By Cathie Martin

Yirritja land, Gaḻawarra was burnt by fireAugust saw a large bush fires burningfrom the other side of the community through to the Yirri-tja land, GaḻawarraThankfully no resi-dences where threatened by the firebutourcommu-nity was not with-out significant loss.Sadly Dingu Farmat Gaḻawarra wasburnt and lost pro-duce. The Market Community Garden also was burnt. Dhimala Dhurrkay, an experiencedmarket gardener of 20 years and man-ager of Dingu farm said, ‘Thefirecameup from the bush and was pushed by a strong wind up into the garden. I was watching the firerunning towards the garden and I was looking for someone to help me stop the fire”.

Dhimala, Dick Munuŋgurr andfamily, with help from Neil and Dar-ren from Marthakal worked hard to put outthefirebutwhilstthey were at lunch embers started the fire again from atree that fell into the grass in the garden and went on to burn almost everything. Dingu Farm lost many small plants and some infra-structure including banana trees, sugar cane, gardening tools, hoses and most of the irrigation piping. Both Dingu Farm and the Commu-nity Market Gardens have both been places of learn-ing and production where many people have come together to work, grow fresh healthy food and learn the skills and

knowledge needed in gardening. “The gardens are neces-sary to grow good food for the commu-nity.” Dhimala said, “They are places people can come to-gether to strengthen the community”With most of his garden in ashes Dhimala hopes that as Dingu farm starts the clean up and replanting, the gardens will grow back as places for

learning and work-ing together. That, once more, we can work together to not only produce lo-cally grown healthy food but in doing so strengthen the fu-ture for our children and community. If anyone would like to help the Dingu Farm with a dona-tion (munhdhurr rrupiyaw) please see Dhimala Dhurr-kay.

SHEPHERDSON STUDENTS CENTRE STAGE AT GARMA FESTIVALNine talented stu-dents from Shep-herdson College participated in the Youth Forum at the 2011 Garma Festi-val at the beginning of the August. They were accompa-nied by Yolŋu elder,Mawulan Marrika, Art teacher Michele S w a n b o r o u g h ,Dance teacher Jim-inga Burton and Mu-sic teacher Brenda Beardshall.A great time was had by the middle and senior school students who par-ticipated in a range of activities including dance workshops with Sydney basedNAISDADanceCol-lege. New art skills were learnt in print making and creative

ghost net weaving workshops while the music students took out 3rd prize in theNT Music School’s“Imagine” song writ-ing competition, win-ning musical equip-ment for the school. The local song

‘Yolŋu People’ wasrecorded and vid-eoed and will be on show soon. Much to the stu-dents’ excitement,the New SheppyCrew opened on the main stage on Sun-day night supported

by Marwulan Marrika on guitar. All the students are to be commended for the outstanding leadership and ma-turity they exhibitedas representatives of both the school and community.

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The ladies from Miwatj Health clapped and cheered on the church laws, as the winners of the Healthy Homes com-petition were called out over the loud speaker.For the past two months Miwatj health had been work-ing with families, educating and demonstrating how to keep a healthy home.“First we give an education and then we demonstrate how to clean the house.”“We ask people to clean the inside area where germs have been left – the kitchen, toilet, bathroom, washing machine, walls and floors –and tell people to clean the area every day.”“We as a community here on Elcho Island want to see healthy homes working eve-ry day, not just for the com-petition, but for the family’s health and children’s health.”

“Healthy homes and strong families,” said the health workers.Amongst the lucky winners was Yvonne Garrinba who said that all day she had been hoping to win a fridge.” “And I won a fridge,” she said.Red cross donated a wash-ing machine. Accreditation Specialistsdonatedastove.A washing machine was do-nated by ALPA, a fridge and mattress were donated by Miwatj Health and Takarrina donated a fridge.

Healthy HomesBy Cathie Martin

Memories of Galiwin’ku Seafood Trading

Above:ArielphotographofGaliwin’kuwithfishingboatsinthewaterCourtesy of Galiwin’ku Library and Knowledge Centre and Northern Territory Library

Do you remember the smell of fresh fish in the air at

Mission Beach? Do you remember the sound of fisherman’s feet walkingthrough the crystal blue waters carrying loads of fish?Or do you remem-ber the old boats float-ing in the sea or running down to Mission Beach to see the fish that hadbeen caught?The fishing industry inGaliwin’ku started in the late 1950s. When thefishingindustryfirststart-ed, many yolŋu workedin it with Mr. Clem Gul-lick. They started off with log canoes and then they

built fishing boats to gofurther distances and carry ice.There were six boats intheGaliwin’kuSeafood’sfleetWititja,Djarrak,Gur-rum Gurrum, Gurr Gurr, We Three and Djuparri. Sometimes these boatswouldgoouttocatchfishfor the day and some-times they would go out for the week. The boats would leave Galiwin’ku on Saturday and comebackonFridayfulloffish.The fishermen wouldcatch skinny fish, mack-erel, barramundi, parrot fish and sweet lips andthe ladies would catch mud crabs.

Clem & Joyce GullickOurStories:PartnersinService

Above: Clem Gullick, courtesy of Galiwin’ku Library and Knowledge Centre and Northern Territory Library

"By 1967 on Elcho Island, many tons of food were being produced... We were weighing up to two tons of fish per weekwhich was used to feed the children as well as being exported."

The Beginnings of an Industry

Above: Mayawurrthalawuy and Rronaŋ bringing in the catch.Courtesy of Galiwin’ku Library and Knowledge Centre and Northern Territory Library

"I started to work in the fishing industry in the1960s. Every school holi-days I would run down to the beach and get on the fishing boat with Rronaŋ.And we would catch fishfor the Galinwin'ku Sea-food industry. I used to work with the right men, the strong ones."

Mayawurrthalawuy

The Mission said to us, "you do what you want, but youhavetosellthefishtothe Mission so we can sell thefish.Youcansellittousand we can give you mon-ey, fuel, hooks, sinkers and everything. And you have to work very hard."The early missionaries also used to say to us, "you work so you can earn a liv-ing. We are helping you to help yourself. We are not helping you to work and all the time asking us to do something for you. But we are trying to help you to help yourself. They said, "working like you people, working like the old days. You hunters, you used to get some-thing for yourself, for tea for evening, for breakfast, lunch" and so on. And they were teaching us. But we were teaching them. They were teaching us how to learn a little bit about the economic world: How to get something from the ground, from the sea and from the land. Like art and craft and everything, and then sell it. And we used to get something"

Rronaŋ

Intheolddays,BäbaShep-pie and Clem Gullick gave us a jobworking in the filletingshed and fixing the fishingnets. BäbaSheppie andMrGullick choose us to work because we could speak English very well.Every day when the men usedtobringthefishin,wewere given the job to filletthem. First we would cut the fishandtakeallthegutsoutand then we would take the

scales off. All this would get taken down to the farm and used as fertiliser.Then we would cut the fishintofilletsandpackthembe-tween layers of plastic, fishthen plastic, into boxes andwe would put the boxes inthe big freezers overnight. Then we used to take them outof thoseboxesand putthem into different boxesready to be sent on the plane to Darwin.

Dorothy Wanymuli

"We used to make blocks of ice for the boats to take out on fishing trips. “

Mayawurrthalawuy

Above: People would gather on Mission Beach.Courtesy of Galiwin’ku Library and Knowledge Centre and Northern Territory Library

Above: Dorothy Wanymuli working in the Filleting shed

The fish were used tofeed people in Galiwin’ku and later they were sold inthecommunityandex-ported to Darwin.A large shed with a walk-in-freezer was built near Mission beach and the fish that were caughtwould be weighed, cleaned, filleted and fro-zen for packing and ex-port to Darwin. A boat shed was also built near the beach. Boats would be pulled up along the rails and they would be fixed and their en-gines would be repaired. There was also a netting shed built on the beach, Yolŋuladiesmendedthe

seven inch mesh nets, which were ripped by sharks and crocodiles. You can still see where some of the buildings used to be as well as the rails and old slipway.

Below are some memories of those who worked in the seafood industry.

Above: Galiwin’ku Sea Foods had a building located on the edge of MissionBeachneartheoldslipway,inwhichthefishwerefilletedandstoredfrozenbeforebeingflowntoNhulunbuyandDarwin.Courtesy of Don & Rhonda Loechel

WHAT ARE YOUR

MEMORIES?

“We used to bring thefish inandweighthem. Then we used to fillet it, pack itup properly, all the filleted fish, and thenputitintheboxesandput it in the cool room and when the plane comes every week we used to send it to Darwin”And that was our mar-ket.MarketingfishtoDarwin. And that was a really good market.Rronaŋ

Thank you to everyone who helped recreate some of these memories, special thanks to:Don and Rhonda Loechel, Clem & Joyce Gullick, Jeffery

Rronaŋ Garrawur-ra, David Mayawur-rthalawuy, Yvonne Sutherland, Marga-ret Miller, Noela Hall, Wendell Flentje, Yalu, Gwenda Baker.

Credits & copyright for photographs to: Don and Rhonda Loechel, Galiwin’ku Library & Knowledge Centre, NTLibrary,Shepherd-son College, Margeret Miller, Wendell Flentje

This is the boat Cookie Wulumbarr worked on for the Methodist Mission. Cookie was a strong young man and joined the fishing crew at Galiwin'ku.

Above: Rronaŋ insidethe filleting shed, filletingthe fish ready to send to Darwin.Left: WeighingthefishCourtesy of ShepherdsonCollege

"We used to work everyday - filleting, packing up the fish. And every week we used to send 25 boxes of barramun-di and mackerel to Darwin on the plane.”Rronaŋ

"Wewouldgoonovernightfishingtripsandthen we would go for the week. We went all over. To the Wessel Islands, Buckingham Bay and Arnhem Bay. We used to go for mackerel,skinnyfish,parrotfish,sweet lipsand baramundi "

Above: NetfishingCourtesy of ShepherdsonCollege

"There were two types of fishing: Trawling for fishathigh tide and tak-ing the nets out at low tide to get barramundi. Barra-mundi was a very popularfishtosell."Rronaŋ

Mayawurrthalawuy

"We got one old man here, Henry Nupurra who used to look after the filletingroom. He used to cleanupthefish,filletthem and pack them up and after, wash down the benches andfloors.”

Rronaŋ:

Above: A truck used to drive around Galiwin’ku and sellfish.

Courtesy of Don & Rhonda Loechel

Positions VacantMarthakal Homeland Resource Centre Administrative Assistant and Mentor

Provide administrative support and mentoring to MHRC staffinallfrontofficeduties.Dutiesincludegeneralclerical, receptionist supervision and pro-ject based work. Project a professional Marthakal image through in-person mentoring and phoneinteractionwithlocalstaffandexternalpersons.PRIMARYRESPONSIBILITIES includingMENTOR-INGOTHERSTAFFIN:• Perform general clerical duties to include but not

limitedto:photocopying,faxing,mailing,andfil-ing,

• Maintainhardcopyandelectronicfilingsystem,• To record and maintain the minutes of the meet-

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• Comply with requirements of Occupational HealthandSafety(OH&S)legislationandrelatedOH&S responsibilities and procedures devel-oped by the MHRC.

• Comply with MHRC Code of Conduct ,For a full Job description contact Marthakal Home-lands.Contact us now on, email hrman@marthakal.org with yourCV,orcalluson(08)89705511andaskforRoyBunnett.

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Shepherdson College 3-9 program

Learning for the whole community Making the school work for everyone

Shepherdson College offers courses to community mem-bers after school hours Right now we are offering : Tuesday: Yolngu Matha for Beginners 4:45PM Welding 5PM Wednesday: Yolngu Matha Continuing 4:45PM Improve your Literacy 3:30PM Improve your Numeracy 5PM Cooking Healthy Food 4PM Drumbeat 3:30PM Using Computers 4:30PM Photography 6PM Thursday: Get your Learners with Sgt Joe Literacy and Numeracy for Men Playing in a Band 5PM Welding 5PM Friday: Beginners Guitar 3:30PM Saturday: Youth Program (at the old Police Station) 11AM New Courses Coming: Make Simple Furniture Learn about Land Rights and Leases Starting a Small Business Organise a Community Activity Diabetes Dinners

 

 

 

Keep  Galiwinku Clean 

Friday 26th August 2011 : session 1 

What a difference in 1 hour!                14 young people, 8 adults, 1 hour Shepherdson College Conservation Group/Health Workers/East Arnhem Shire Council/ Alpa/ Top‐Bottom shop 

Shepherdson Collegewould like to acknowledge BottomShop,fortheirassis-tance in encouraging school attendance. They are supporting the school by not allowing unaccompanied children in their store during school hours. Thank-you to all the staff at BottomShop.

DOG TICKS

Ticks feed on dogs blood. Blood loss makes dogs weak & sick

When full, a female tick will leave the dog & lay eggs in a cool place. Ticks hatch in a few weeks & climb onto new dogs & feed.

OTHER TREATMENT OPTIONS: Pull ticks off your dog, squash them, then wash your hands

Boiling water poured over outside of your house where ticks lay eggs can also help control ticks around your house

•Flea shampoo

• Flea collar

• Wash bedding

• ‘Spot ons’

•Treat environment

Joanne Yindiri from Dony-dji and Roslyn Guyula from Mirrŋatja,flewtoGaliwin’kuduring August to do a four-wheel driving course at ShepherdsonCollege.Joanne and Roslyn were taught how to change a tire, emergency brake, reverse start a car on a hill and drive a car through the sand.Driving Instructor, Neil Kime from Charles Darwin Uni-versity said driving a four-wheel drive safely was a skill that must be learnt. “Four-wheel driving is the most unnatural thing you will ever do, done correctly,” he said.Joanne and Roslyn said they had fun and they were givenacertificateattheendof the course.

4WD TrainingBy Cathie Martin

If you have got a skill you could pass on to peo-ple, might be in cooking, gardening, building, me-

chanics, making things or keeping healthy - come see us at the school or give usacallon0427560761.

Shepherdson CollegeNight Classes

Thank You’s

Keep Galiwin’ku clean is a 10 week pilot program set up by Keith Vickers from Shepherdson College. East Arnhem Shire Council, ALPA, Ŋalkanbuy Health, Takkarina and Bottom shop are all helping this program.

YOU CAN TO

Bin IT! please

Help us keep Galiwinku clean

“Together we can make a difference.”

Marthakal Baḏurru Work-shop would like to Thank Nathan Bilirri Garrawurra for his contributions and hard work over the years.Staff at the workshop willmiss you and wish you the best of luck for your future.

Brain TrainingSolve the puzzles, soluitions over on Page 10

Galiwin’kupuyDhäwuPublisher: Digital Future MediaJournalism and photography: Vera York, James Bayung, & Cathie MartinDesign&Illustration:SallyClaytonPMB 62, Galiwin’ku, Via Winnellie, Northern Territory, 0822Mobile:04173450280417736219Email: news@marthakal.org digitalfuture@live.com.auWebpage: future developemnt plan12pagefreetabloidpublicationdistributedfirstweekofeachmonth. Community events and information printed free with advertising and sponsors welcome. Email for advertising costs and more information.This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process, nor mayanyotherexclusiverightbeexercised,withoutthepermissionof Marthakal Mala Leaders

Digital Future Media DFM is a new project running at Galiwin’ku for the town-ship and homelands. It is a media centre with newspaper and radio and future developments will include website and filmand screen productions. Everyone is welcome to work with the team to create stories.DFM is currently renovat-ing the BRACS building atGaliwin’ku to use as their offices.Connect, Engage & Inform

Brain Training Solutions

Galiwin’ku’s A-Team The Territory Alliance lo-gistics team, commonly referred to as the A-Team by Site ManagerMatt Fowke, is respon-sible for planning and managing the storage andflowofsuppliesandequipment in and out of the yard. Rob Casey manages stores and in-ventory, Ken Newman coordinates drivers, trucks and manpower and Dave Meertens manages the delivery side of things. Local workers Dave Guyula, Gonazles Maralunga and Kelvin Goṉḏarra,who have been with Ter-ritory Alliance since the start of work, play a key role in the storage and movement of supplies.Previously Dave Meertens lived in Queensland where he installed fire alarms. Arecent move to the Ter-ritory meant not only a new location but a new job.‘I enjoy the variety of work with Territory Alli-ance,’ said Dave.Recently discharged from the army, Rob Casey is from Ade-laide. Having spent sixmonths in Afghanistan

Rob is used to remote work. ‘The transition to Galiwin’ku has been easy,Iwasexpectingasmaller community with less infrastructure,’ said Rob.This level headed man doesn’t seem to be fazed by much. Com-munication is key, ask-ing the questions and explaining the process.‘Everyone needs to un-derstand what and why,’ Rob said.Together the logistics team packs up build-ing materials and deliv-ers them to the various housing construction sites.Theytakeexcessmaterials from the sites back to the storage yardandfindhomesforloose items.Dave Guyula, Gonazles Maralunga and Kelvin Goṉḏarra explainedhow they are picked up at 6 am for breakfast, af-ter which they attend a toolboxmeetingtoplantheir day. ‘We also hear about the safety rules,’ said Gon-zales.Kelvin likes working for Territory Alliance.‘It is good money,’ he

said.‘Before we pack eve-rything up we check the stuff, measure eve-rything up and check the list to make sure we have the right size steel,’ said Kelvin.Dave and Gonzales said the work was inter-esting. ‘There’s different stuff to learn,’ said Gon-zales.A normal day starts at around 6 am. With lunch and smoko squeezed in, knock-offtimeisabout5or 6 pm.Kelvin said they work MondaytoSaturday.Dave said when they are not working, they liketogofishing.They’ve all done their white card training and Dave Guyula is pre-paring to get his heavy ridged licence, the oth-ers want to follow suit. Kelvin said with train-ing they could go any-where. They could work on another construction site or in Darwin if they wanted.

Carlos joins Thunder

On Saturday the6th of August Car-los Burarrwaŋa flewto Sydney with theNorthern Territory Thunder to take on the AFL’s newest team GWS (Greater West-ern Sydney) Giants.Ateamwhonextyearwill be playing in the AFL competition and is coached by the leg-endaryKevinSheedyAfter being called up for his second game

with the Thunder, Carlos did Galiwin’ku proud stopping many GWS forward thrustsand providing lots of run out of the back-line. A measure of how highly the Thun-der rate Carlos was when they put him on former NRL superstar Israel Folou who casts an imposing figure at195cmand97kg.Despite Carlos and the Thunders efforts they went down by 12

points but remain in top position.Carlos plans to keep fit andhopefully havethe chance to play fi-nals with the Thunder.

The Galiwin’ku po-lice are very worried about the large num-ber of young people including children that are sniffing paint andglue. The Community must remember that these kids represent our future. We need to work together to help beat this problem. Paint sniffing createsserious health issues, such as permanent brain damage, hear-ing loss, arm or leg spasms, liver and kid-ney damage and dam-age to unborn babies if mothers sniff paint. Sniffing can causedeath, even for firsttime sniffers. Unfortunately, there have still been quite a few break-ins this month. Most of these break-ins are by kids who are trying to steal food. The welfare of these kids is very im-portant. Parents and Carers need to stop gambling and use their money to buy food for their kids. This will

stop a lot of the crime in Galiwin’ku.On a positive note, there has been a lot less cars stolen and break-ins of the con-tractors and at the school since the se-curity cameras have been installed. These security cameras have already helped the police to identify a number of offenders.There have been quite a few big fires thismonth that could have burnt down houses if the Community didn’t work together to put the fires out. It wasgood to see strong Community spirit!The Police assist-ed the Rangers to ferry students from

Shepherdson Collegeto Stevens Island forturtle research and to remove ghost nests that are killing turtles and marine life.A special thanks also goes to Belinda Mor-ton for getting her car really bogged. This provided 3 weekendsof training and en-tertainment for the Emergency Serviceworkers, trying to get her car out. Three more cars (including two police cars also got bogged in the pro-cess). The Emergency Ser-vices need more vol-unteers. Please con-tact Gary Baker for more information.

Galiwin’ku PoliceSCUBA divers used to clean and repair Galiwin’ku water tankAteamofSCUBAdiversrecently spent several days diving in the com-munity’s drinking water tank.TheSCUBA divers hadbeen hired to find hardto identify leaks that needed repairing inside the Community’s water storage tank, and also to undertake general cleaning.Water storage tanks on remote communities are most often drained and cleaned in order to ensure a high quality of water for residents. Dur-ing these times, water is

supplied direct from the bore fields, through adisinfection system, to homes and businesses. In some cases profes-sional divers are used to detect less obvious leaks in the water stor-age tanks. The divers make the repairs while the water storage tanks are pumping water into the community, this en-sures that less water is wasted when compared to emptying the tanks to fixtheleaks.The diving operators use a large vacuum to clean the tank and use a

dye that is similar to food colouring, to help identi-fy leaks which were then repaired. Power and Water now use this method to clean and repair drinking wa-ter storage tanks more widely in remote com-munities throughout the Northern Territory. Water tanks in Beswick, Miny-eri, Ngukur and Yarralin have also been cleaned by this method.

Bright Future for Ralph Dhamarraṉdji

Ralph Dhamarraṉdjirecently returned from the National Under 15 Championships inCanberra, putting his immense football tal-ent to the test against the best Under 15Footballers from around Australia.In a team that strug-gled Ralph was a shining light, his chas-ing and tackling pres-sure was a highlight of the tournament, with many onlookers duly impressed.

He was a popular team member, who was chaired off the ground on the shoul-ders of his team in the finalmatchafterkick-ing the last goal of the game.Ralph is a part of the Shepherdson Foot-ball Academy which trains everyday be-fore school; he never misses training and is becoming a real lead-er within the group. This will certainly not be the last time you hear of Ralphs

achievements cou-pledwithhisexcellentfootball ability, great attitude and a willing-ness to learn.Ralph has an extremely bright future both on and off thefield.

By Sam Ellis

By Sam Ellis

On August 4th there wasa March and fun activities in the park to celebrate In-ternational Children’s Day. Children and adults were marching around the com-munity. Teachers and stu-

dent were holding banners and balloons. Everyone was quiet at the houses where the children had passed away. After that all the chil-dren let go of the balloons. Then everyone went to the park. At the park there were lots of fun activities. Chil-dren’s day was great fun.

National Indigenous and Islanders Childrens Day

By Orange Class

Lynne WalkerMember for NhulunbuyElectorate Offi ce: Arnhem HouseEndeavourSquare,Nhulunbuy,NT0880Offi ce hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 1.00pm 2.00pm - 4.30pmAppointments outside these hours by arrangementPostal Address: POBox1021 Nhulunbuy, NT 0881Phone: 08 8987 1711 Fax:0889872388Emails: electorate.nhulunbuy@nt.gov.au

In August, Rorruwuy wel-comed 43 students, nineteachers and some home-lands adults to their com-munity for the Homeland StudentPersonalDevelop-ment Camp.ThecampstartedonSatur-day for three teachers when theyflewfromGaliwin'kutoNhulunbuy to pick up sup-plies.Howard, Rowdy and Bob then drove to Rorruwuy with Barrkira students and teacher, Renelle and Brian.On Monday excited stu-dents and teachers began to arrive via charter from DonydjiandMirrŋatja.The fun at Rorruwuy began with an AFL coaching clinic and volleyball and basket-ball games played on the new court made by Bob, Susan and the RorruwuyCommunity.Studentswereatfirsthesi-tant of the waterside until Adrian from Donydji took the plunge and the fun con-tinued into the night thanks to Brian and Renelle who

provided the beats for the disco.On Tuesday a memorial was held for Nathaniel. On Wednesday everyone was shuttled to Nyinikay for fishing and beach games.Egg and spoon races, sack races and other nov-elty events were held back at Rorruwuy and the day ended with more waterside, volleyball and a Bungal.The planning for the camp began in June 2010 and re-sultedinawonderfulexpe-rience for all involved.

Many thanks go to:MAF, Marthakal Health

team, Rorruwuy Home-land, Sam from NTAFLGaliwin’ku, Susan for set-ting up the tents, Brian and Wilson for organising the ceremony, Esther, Joanne and Helen for cooking breakfast, Bob and Rowdy.

Tjupi as Warumpi: His music lives on

The Tjupi band travelled from the desert of Papunya and arrived at the saltwater of Galiwin'ku on Tuesday 16 August, after touring many settlements through-out Arnhem Land.The word Tjupi has the same meaning as Warum-pi, which is honey ant. And it is from the Warumpi band that the Tjupi band began.Memeber of Warumpi band,SammyButchersaidhe started the Tjupi band with Barnabus Daniels."We started playing de-sert reggae and our songs would tell people to stop drugs and alcohol and do-mestic violence."The Tjupi band came to Galiwin'ku to pay tribute

to the founding member of the Warumpi band, George Burarrwanga, whose head-stone was put in place on Wednesday 17 August.And also the Tjupi Band played a live concert at Galiwin'ku.Sammysaidthebandwasreally looking forward to playing with the Saltwater

Band."We got a lot of respect for Top End bands," he said."We get our inspiration from bands like the Let-terstick Band, the SunriseBand the Saltwater Band,the Soft Sands Band, Na-barlek, Wirrinyga Band, and Dharrwar Band."

By James Bayung

Homelands Students Personal Development Camp

The youth of Elcho Island flocked to the Galiwin’kuplayground on the after-noon of August 4 to cel-ebrate National Indigenous and Torres Strait IslanderChildren’s Days.

Families as First Teachers-IndigenousParentingSup-port Service, Belinda Mor-ton organised the event with Cathy Woods from Mi-watj Health. Galiwin’ku Youth Services

and Police also assisted on the day, while Emergency Services made a waterslide with a long sheet of plastic donated by Territory Alliance.

By Cathie Martin

The success and growing involvement of Women’s Football on Galiwin’ku has been highlighted by six lo-cal women: Evelyna Dhamarraṉdji,LucindaMarika, Sheena Yan-gulukpuy, Melanie Gar-rawurra, Delvine Mun-yarryun and Lorraine Dhamarraṉdji beingselected in the Aus-tralian Indigenous and Multi Cultural football side which competed in the International Cup against teams from the USA, PapauNew Guinea, Ireland and Canada. The women not only

gottoexperiencesometough competition on the field and had thechance to see the sights of Sydney andMelbourne. The girls were also involved in a march of the nations at half time of Hawks vs Bulldogs at the MCG.The women were selected based on their strong performances in the Galiwin’ku Wom-en’s Football competi-tion. In 6 short months Galiwin’ku has devel-oped a strong 6 team women’s Competi-tion and to then have 6 players selected to

represent Australia a remarkable achieve-ment. It would be re-miss of me not to say a big thank you to Tavis Perry for start-ing and supporting the women’s competition in Galiwin’ku. I can as-sure you he’s as proud as anyone of the girl’s achievements. Cheers Tav.Congratulations to the girls and to the women of Galiwin’ku you should all be proud of the enthu-siasm and ability you’ve shown in the Women’s football competition.

By Sam Ellis

Galiwinku Girls take on the World

Galiwin’ku boys selected to play

Galiwinku's growing reputation as a breeding ground for talented young footballers continues to grow with Gabriel Dhurr-kay, Lochlan Dhurrkay and Desmond Dhurrkay all selected to play for the Northern Territory side

playing in the Indigenous Under15Carnivalheldonthe Gold Coast from the 31st August to the 4th ofSeptember.The carnival is also a se-lection process for the Fly-ing Boomerang team which if selected will give the boys a chance to be a part of a personal development and leadership program for

Australia's most talented young indigenous football-ers. All three boys have been apartof theShepherdsonCollege Football Academy and have shown a dedica-tion not only to their football but to the school as well.Congratulations to the boys and we wish them all the best on the Gold Coast….

By Sam Ellis

Onthe15thofAugust2011somestudentsfromShalomChristianCollegeflewdownto Brisbane. Out of these students Delf Garrawur-ra andZedricBurrarwaŋafrom Galiwin’ku and Jes-siha Clyden from Katherine have taken the next steptowards their goals of be-coming professional AFL players after being select-ed in the QLD Indigenous under15AFLteam.

The QLD side will contest the National Indigenous championships in early September.In what has been a great year for the boys Delf Garrawurra and Zedric Burrarwaŋa were also selected in the Northern Territory and QLD country school boys teams earlier this year. The boys hone their skills on a weekly basis at Shalom Christian Collegein the local Townsville com-petition.

Shalom boys selected to play

National Indigenous championships

By Monica Kolb