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  • Researchers from the Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service and the George Institute for Global Health at the end of day 3 of surveying community members about food and water security.
    01 Mar 2022

    March Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    The research team surveyed hundreds of community members, and have now begun the process of analysing the data collected with an agreement to return to Walgett in May to present their findings to WAMS and the DEG.

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  • 4 people sat around a meeting table looking at a TV screen on the wall
    01 Jan 2022

    January Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    Government agencies continuously gather information about the contact Aboriginal people have with the health, housing, education, child protection and criminal justice systems in Walgett.

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  • Yuwaya Ngarra-li team presentation at Australian Social Policy Conference: ‘What does it take for universities to genuinely support community-led efforts to improve outcomes for Aboriginal children and young people?’ Joint DEG-UNSW presentation to the Australian Social Policy Conference, November 2021.
    01 Nov 2021

    November Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    The team presented to the Australian Social Policy Conference in November about what it takes for universities to work in a genuinely community-led way, distilling and communicating to a broad audience what we’ve learnt after working in collaborat

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  • Youth diversion demonstration model resulting in 2 options. Adult criminal justice system or  thriving in the community
    01 Sep 2021

    September Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    Reducing Aboriginal young people’s contact with the criminal justice system in Walgett has always been a high priority for the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership, and galvanising concern for the Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG).

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  • Call out from Bow. Man in grey top stood infront of  a lake with a covid mask on
    01 Aug 2021

    August Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    During recent COVID lockdowns, the Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG) turned their skills to co-ordinating supplies of food, water and PPE locally, delivering emergency household supplies to isolating household and checking in on Elders who were housebo

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  • 05 Jul 2021

    CommUNIty-Led development: A partnership to realize Aboriginal Elders’ vision for change

    Read the most recent article from the YN team.

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  • 21 May 2021

    May Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    The Yuwaya Ngarra-li Youth Justice Advisor, Peta MacGillivray, visited Walgett in May as we kick-start the implementation of the Youth Diversion Demonstration Model (‘the Model’), in our Children and Young People and Youth Justice focus areas of t

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  • 30 Apr 2021

    April Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    Being community-led is one of the core principles of the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership, which grew from collaboration between UNSW researchers and community-controlled organisations.

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  • UNSW’s Peta MacGillivray is the Youth Justice Advisor on the model is seen here side on to the camera facing a screen with a presentation.
    21 Mar 2021

    March Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    Aboriginal children and young people are criminalised and incarcerated in horrifying numbers, including in Walgett, a town of ~2500 people with more than 40 police stationed locally.

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  • A group of people stand in the community garden. Small vegetable patches are covered by a large shade cloth.
    27 Feb 2021

    February Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li

    The food and water security initiatives of the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership with the Dharriwaa Elders Group has had some great successes recently.

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  • Three members of the joint team are working on installing garden beds.
    18 Nov 2020

    A successful COVID safe visit from UNSW Impact Engineering to Walgett

    An update on ongoing work between Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG), Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service (WAMS) and UNSW from the Yuwaya Ngarra-li team.

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  • 01 Oct 2020

    September/October Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    Yuwaya Ngarra-li’s work on food security has received national attention over the past month. Aboriginal people in remote communities including Walgett have been raising concerns about the affordability and quality of food for many years.

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  • 01 Jul 2020

    July Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li

    Yuwaya Ngarra-li has developed a new holistic model of youth diversion based on two years of community collaboration and learning since the launch of the 

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  • 01 Jun 2020

    June Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    With COVID-19 restrictions making travel to Walgett impossible, Yuwaya Ngarra-li collaborators in Impact Engineering have been working remotely to support the next phase to drought-proof the Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service’s community garden.

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  • Pallets of water sit on the ground in a factory.
    18 May 2020

    May Update: Yuwaya Ngarra-li Partnership

    An update from the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership.

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  • Pallets of water sit on the ground in a factory.
    08 Apr 2020

    Walgett community unites to tackle pandemic-related food shortages

    Experts around the world have been highlighting the weaknesses of the current food system in the context of COVID-19 and arguing that the crisis caused by the pandemic provides an opportunity to re-think the way we produce, distribute and consume

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  • NSW Health Minister Brad Hazard signs the order on 30 March.
    08 Apr 2020

    When public health becomes punitive, rather than supporting communities

    Aboriginal people are fighting a battle on two fronts – against the novel coronavirus and against punitive government interventions, according to Peta MacGillivray, a Kalkadoon and South Sea Islander lawyer who is currently the Project Manager for

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  • Members of the working group pose for a photo.
    18 Feb 2020

    The Food & Water for Life Program Working Group Update

    The Food & Water for Life Program Working Grp met 18 Feb 2020 to determine its Terms of Reference, & get cracking on 24 actions

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