This follows a $5,000 fine two years ago for serving the same girl, when she was 14.

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It has sold $1.5 million dollars worth of new shares to spend on the project which is 25km from Halls Creek.

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They wrote off their vehicle and suffered severe injuries between Billiluna and Wolfe Creek turnoffs.

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The man’s 38-year-old daughter has been charged with grevious bodily harm.

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Cattle are thriving in the unexpected conditions.

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Mary G with backing musician Lyndon Jenkins - Photo courtesy PRK Radio

Halls Creek’s first music festival on Saturday was a crowd pleaser, says compere Mary G.

“It was a very important show for the town,” she said.

“It celebrated all the kids, people and cultures.

“Many of the kids’ acts was very good, a special treat was the return of the Shovellor Family Band (they was very good) and the highlight was Walkabout Boys they was awesome.

“Traditional dancing was fantastic with all the kids.”

Mary G sponsors KimberleyPage.

You can read a statement from organiser Bukola Esin here:

The inaugural Halls Creek music festival was a success. The festival gave opportunity to residents in the remote part of Halls creek and its surroundings to sit with families in an atmosphere that is drug and alchohol free.

It was a respect yourself, respect your culture atmosphere . And talking about culture, the local dance was an indication that the culture of the people of Halls Creek can be maintained .Men, women, youths and the little ones were all involved in the dancing.

There is an estamated 1500 participants at the event.
There was live radio broadcast through the PAKAM network with feeds taken from the studios of PRK radio and Wangki Radio OB equipment.

The fire works rounding off the event was loved by locals as for some it was a first time experience.

The festival also was an avenue for skills transfer in event management for locals so they can do it professionally themselves in future years.

With the Nguyuru Waaringarrem, Halls Creek has proven that she can host an event with such capacity and be organised about it.

We are proud of what we have achieved been the first time of such an event in Halls Creek and hope to produce a better festival in future. Nguyuru Waaringarrem was meant to promote everything good about Halls Creek and that it did.

We thank all our sponsors , government and non government. Local and media partners.

The company’s shares rose in value since it announced it had re-examined Koongie drilling samples stored in its Halls Creek premises.

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Martin Pierson-Jones said liquor restrictions in Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing have only moved the problem to Kununurra and Broome.

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The company, which owns the Coyote mine near Balgo, also intends to start mining its Central Tanami Project on the NT side next year.

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Ernie Bridge

Country singer/songwriter Ernie Bridge will be appearing at Halls Creek’s Nguyurru Waaringarrem festival this Saturday.

A former Halls Creek Shire President, Mr Bridge went on to become our state’s first Aboriginal member of parliament.

You can read more about him here:

HON ERNIE BRIDGE OAM CitWA JP
President – Watering Australia
Foundation & Unity of First People of
Australia
Ernie Bridge was born at Halls Creek in the
Kimberley region in the far north of Western
Australia. Prior to his political life, he was
involved in family business and became a
successful small businessman in his own
right. Mr Bridge has the distinction of being
the first Aboriginal Member of the WA
Parliament and the first Aboriginal person to
be appointed a Cabinet Minister in any
Parliament in Australia. In 1993 he was
awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia
(OAM) for his service to Parliament and Aboriginal Affairs.
He is the President of the Watering Australia Foundation, a non-profit
organisation established in 1995 and continues to champion water supply
needs. In 1997 he also established the Unity of First People of Australia, a non
-profit organisation dedicated to assisting Aboriginal people and
communities with the establishment of employment-creating enterprises and
roles for indigenous people in the key areas of law and order, education and
health.
In 2003 he received the Centenary of Federation Medal for his service to
Parliament and Aboriginal Affairs and in 2004 he won the Western
Australian Citizen of the Year Award in the category of Governor’s Award for
Regional Development. Since retiring from Parliament in 2001 Mr Bridge has
continued to pursue business interests through the Watering Australia
Foundation and the Unity of First People of Australia.
WINNER of 2010 NAIDOC Perth
“Elder of the Year Male”

From the organisers of Nguyurru Waaringarrem.