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- Last update - Jan 15, 04 - 
Some progress occurring...

Fencing going around dam. Testing of dam water taking place. Other problems with dam under discussion. Rubbish skips supplied. Dog program under way. ADF to handover to Yilli Reung housing - following a vote of no confidence in the ADF
Still waiting for action...

No power to house 2 for over ten months. (PAWA have finally become involved.) No word from Telstra on a Public phone box. No (demountable) office for admin' and training (as used on all communities) at One Mile Dam. No decision from government on tenure at OMD.

Update on lease

- ADF relinquish lease... Community not involved in any decisions on lease to date...

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Environmental
Rehabilitation
Report by ANGELIKA HESSE

Cleaning up the Dam

Rehabilitation project underway (15th May, 05)

Volunteers welcome

  

New - photo gallery
Contains pictures of deceased

Kumbutjil President - dead at 5O 'Sorry time'

Don't go there if images of Aboriginal people
killed by racist neglect distress

"Clare - you are gambling with our people's lives" - 7th of March, 2005

"Pensioner without power" - 2nd of March, 2005

"Too little - Too late" - 1st of March, 2005

Kumbutjil News - What the people read - 23rd February 2005

 

National Shame Job - Inner city Aboriginal community earmarked for development for the elite - while residents fight for basic human rights

- "One Mile Dam is the only place in central Darwin where Aboriginal people can stay, within their cultural comfort zone and within the law. One Mile Dam provides a sanctuary for indigenous homeless people, giving an alternative to living on the streets, providing shelter and basic facilities and functions in a way that Aboriginal people feel welcome and accepted." - Read more

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Senator Vanstone

Visits One Mile Dam to talk with the Kumbutjil Association - affirming our position as the peak body for One Mile Dam with the right to hold our community's lease.

 


David Tollner

 Sees future for One Mile Dam Community

Movie stills from Steve Spencer - Sociologist

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