Negotiations with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Curtin Springs Roadhouse, NT, to obtain a Special Measures Certificate to prohibit the sale of alcohol, 1997; Certificate current;
Co-ordination of 330 Aboriginal women to perform in the Sydney 2000 Olympics Opening Ceremony;
Development of innovative community development models of service delivery such as the Petrol Sniffing Support Project (now Young People’s Project);
National Travelling Exhibition of Ngaanyatjarra Manguri Women’s Weaving; continuing; currently en route from Warburton in WA to the Araluen Centre in Alice Springs; Tjanpi works also acquired by: National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, National Museum of Australia, Araluen Arts Centre, Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection (USA); and the Kerry Stokes Collection.
Extensive participation in SA Coronial inquest 2002, into the deaths of three petrol sniffers from the AP Lands, including separate legal representation for NPYWC, submissions, assistance to Coroner’s office in relation to expert and other witnesses, dissemination of information by radio during inquiry at Umuwa, May-June 2002, and afterwards by translation and distribution of findings; financial assistance by way of grant from Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation;
Separate legal representation at a second SA Coronial inquest November-December 2004, involving similar issues; grant from Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation and Pilot Light Foundation Working Dog Productions);
Submission to NT Coronial inquest into the deaths of three petrol sniffers, August 2005;
Commissioning of Access Economics Cost Benefit Analysis of the introduction of subsidised Opal ‘unsniffable’ fuel into a wide Central Australian region, along with General Property Trust (GPT) and Central Australian Youth Link Up Service (CAYLUS) – the ‘Opal Alliance’; report launched March 2006. Opal Fuel Analysis Presentation, Opal Fuel Analysis Report, also available at www.gpt.com.au Extensive and successful lobbying to have the Opal Federal subsidy extended to the private retail sector, including in Alice Springs from 1st March 2007;
Systemic advocacy and support for Indigenous women’s and family issues at local and national levels.
