Ngukurr Blog

Account of our time in Ngukurr, southeast Arnhem Land, October-November 2005 and discussion of some issues...

Ngukurr is the headquarters of the Yugul Mangi Community Government Council, whose web site is here. See also this page on the web site of the Northern Land Council for a brief note on the history and culture of Australian Aboriginal people. For more detailed local history, see the paper from the Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation quoted in the 20 October blog below.

GETTING THERE

Intro: Northern Territory

— 14-16 October, Darwin
— 15 October, HMAS Darwin, Ted Egan, Lord Nelson, George W Bush
— 15 October, Judy's family – photos taken on Judy's birthday - Ev's sister Judy is in her second year teaching in Xian, China at Jiaotong University.
— 16 October, Roper Highway

AT NGUKURR

— 18 October: In the Roper Country Garden
— 19 October: End of the dry season?? Also, a little bit of Kriol and some thoughts on the meaning of life
— 20 October: Language, history and the tough issues
— 21 October: CrocFest rehearsal!
— 24 October: Off to Croc Festival
— 25 October: Teachers cocktail hour at the Ngukurr Community Education Centre
— 26 October: Your cosmos, my cosmos: aspects of daily life
— 27 October: AT LAST, THE BANJO PAGE!
— 27 October: Warm evening lullaby
— 28 October: A school full of art
— 28 October: Mosaic story part 3
— 28 October: some views of Ngukurr in the heat of the day, few people
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....delay in keeping up - distracted by designing Simon Normand's web page and then by the death of Ev's mother and our attendance at her funeral...
There will be more!

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