Dear [firstname,fallback=friend],
Buy your Jukurrpa diary now!
The 2010 Jukurrpa diary features artwork from Papunya Tula artists of the Western Desert Art Movement. The diaries feature one day to each page and 26 colour reproductions of artworks.
Special for ANTaR newsletter subscribers: buy a hard cover Jukurrpa diary for only $25 (normally retails for $35).
To order, call us on 02 9564 0594 and quote "newsletter" for the discounted price. Available while stocks last (hurry - we sold out last year!).
More specials in ANTaR's shop:
Peggy Nampijinpa Brown OAM
Recently we sent information to our donors featuring Peggy Nampijinpa Brown who led the establishment of the successful grassroots community program at Mt Theo that addresses substance abuse issues among Indigenous youth.
In 1993, the situation in Yuendumu (situated 290km north-west of Alice Springs) was dire as there were more than 70 teenagers sniffing petrol. Peggy and other Elders from the community decided to take a zero tolerance approach.
Strategies such as banishment, public floggings of sniffers, night patrol and the replacement of petrol with aviation fuel did not stop the youth of the area from sniffing petrol.
Peggy offered to look after all of Yuendumu's petrol sniffers at Mt Theo Outstation. What began as a last ditch effort to save her own family from petrol sniffing, quickly turned into a mammoth task that would become Peggy's life work.
Thus the Mt Theo Program started in 1994. Peggy has worked, mostly in a voluntary capacity, on the program every since, filling various roles including chairperson and outstation supervisor.
But then Peggy is a pretty unique woman. As she lists off her family group, Peggy names over a dozen sons and daughters and many more grandchildren like Simos, pictured with Peggy above. Most of her 'children' are actually 'stray' kids that Peggy has adopted into her family. She's a big woman with a big heart, who over her life has adopted many young people as 'her children'.
There are plenty of stories of successful programs in the Northern Territory that are Aboriginal community-controlled. Help us to continue to highlight Aboriginal community control as the best way to address issues in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities, rather than a top-down approach such as the Northern Territory Emergency Response. Please make a donation today.
"If it is to work, community development must be led by the community and partnered by government." Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board, 30 September 2008
Changes to the Northern Territory Emergency Response
In late November, the Federal Government quietly announced it will extend financial income management to a wider range of people - including those who are long-term unemployed, sole parents and those assessed to be vulnerable.
These measures will still disproportionately and adversely affect Aboriginal people, who are likely to be over-represented in these groups.
Many more Aboriginal people who live outside the original 73 prescribed communities of the NT will be affected for the first time.
Extending income management to non-Indigenous Australians does not really resolve the issue of discrimination, as the vast majority of people affected in the Northern Territory will be Indigenous.
Further, the government plans to implement some version of income management nationally within the next three years. It's likely each of us knows somebody who could potentially be affected.
We still have a long way to go. But please do not give up hope. You can become a part of a growing group of people who are willing to speak out against these discriminatory policies in the Northern Territory. Sign up now...
