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Wyndham: Ngnowar Aerwah is governance award finalist
Alcohol rehab group Ngnowar Aerwah Aboriginal Corporation is a finalist in Reconciliation Australia’s 2014 Indigenous Governance Awards.
Prof Mick Dodson was chairman of the selection panel.
You can read a media release here:
Regular Singapore-Broome-Wyndham shipping service
An Australian company has started a regular shipping service between Singapore, Wyndham and Broome.
The Kimberline is carrying agricultural machinery and mining consumables, but the owners hope to attract cargoes of agricultural exports, such as boxed beef.
Farm Weekly [read this story]
Halls Creek: China boom blamed for grog runs
An English newspaper describes “Aboriginal tribes” as “millionaire taxi-hailing dipsos” making a fortune from mining royalties.
“Thanks to the Australian mining boom, some land-owning aborigines have lots of money,” the paper says.
“They can afford to take thousand-dollar cab rides from relatively sober Halls Creek, where you can’t buy booze stronger than 2.7 per cent, all the way to indulgent Kununurra, where you can buy any grog from lunchtime.”
How hard can it be to check your facts before you publish?
The Telegraph [read this story]
Wyndham crocs going to Darwin
The former Wyndham crocodile farm is selling all of its stock to a Darwin crocodile farm.
Courtesy DEC
All 30 animals have been bought and are expected to be used as breeding stock.
Wyndham: Work camp only two thirds full
Wyndham work camp, designed to house 30 prisoners, only had 20 inmates earlier this month.
The West Australian says it is one of four minimum security work camps in rural WA that is not being used to capacity.
The West Australian [read this story]
SWEK: Commonwealth delays road repairs
Wyndham-East Kimberley shire is still waiting for Commonwealth funds to repair flood-damaged roads.
Shires renew waste contracts
Three Kimberley shires are believed to be renewing waste management contracts with the company Tox Free.
They are Wyndham-East Kimberley, Derby-West Kimberley and Broome.
They are said to be renewed for a five-year period.
The West Australian [read this story]
Wyndham muso plays NSW festival
Wyndham muscian Shaun Meehan is playing in a Woolongong, NSW, festival this weekend.
It is a fundraiser for a program called “Grow the Music” for remote Indigenous communities.
Illawarra Mercury [read this story]
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