Lorraine Bennett the Remote Schools Attendance Scheme supervisor for Beswick is going to Canberra at the end of May as part of a nine person group to meet with the Prime Minister’s Indigenous advisory Council and the Prime Minister.
Finding suitable accommodation for Council, Government and other visitors to small communities is often a challenge in towns with acute housing shortages. Bulman located 340 kilometres north east of Katherine has always had a shortage of visitors’ accommodation and being located at least four or...
A recent funding grant from the Northern Territory Department of Health under the “Youth at Risk Program” has allowed 14 young people aged 13 to 16 years of age from the small town of Jilkminggan to compete in the Easter Basketball competition held in Darwin.
Ex Cyclone Gillian has blown past Borroloola, a town of a thousand or more people located in the South West Gulf of the Roper Gulf Regional Council. No major flooding or damage this time but Borroloola has suffered three floods already this year.
Borroloola library is now doing visits Monday and Friday afternoons at the crèche. The first visit for 2014 had a turn out of around 8-9 kids. The visit was themed around the ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ book.
Memories of a time long past came flying back to Numbulwar with last weeks arrival of a collection of 450 unique black and white photos taken 50 years ago and held by the Netherlands Museum.
Roper Gulf Regional Council has recently renewed its website with new looks and more information. The new website replaces the five year old format and is much easier to use. It incorporates new graphics and has lots more local news and photographs.
A call has gone out to the Australian Government to deliver improved and overdue tax breaks for workers in regional and remote areas of Northern Australia.
Roper Gulf Regional Council Mayor Tony Jack has announced that the Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS), a new federally funded program to support families to encourage children to attend school regularly and on time, and reduce truancy, will start in local schools at Barunga, Beswick and Bulman...
On 19th December 2013 the Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, David Tollner MLA, announced that Shire Councils will be transformed to Regional Councils from 1st January 2014. From 1st January 2014 Roper Gulf Shire Council will be known as Roper Gulf Regional Council.
The end of Christmas usually brings a change of pace and a preparation for a summer of Tennis and other sports. At Daly Waters the locals have got in for an early and perhaps the first of the seasons tennis when the inaugural Daly Waters Tennis Championship was held in early November.
Eighty people and about twenty dogs gathered last Friday in the evening heat on the dusty edge of the small central Arnhem town of Bulman to laugh, dance and cheer at the “Bulman Barrel of laughs” a special event held in the small town located about 320 kilometres east of Katherine.
For the first time in the five years since formation, the Roper Gulf Shire Council formally welcomed a new Australian by hosting its first Citizenship ceremony. Twenty five relatives and friends attended the ceremony held in Mataranka, in the heart of the “Never Never,” to witness long term...
Three men and a horse walked into a bar… Why did the bush turkey cross the road…? Did you hear the one about…? No I am just gammin, the script may be still being written, but for sure laughter will ring out in Bulman at the inaugural Bulman Barrel of Laughs - a free comedy and fun event to be held...
‘Stand up goodbala wai’ – voices from the youth of Roper Gulf Shire will be heard at the inaugural Roper Gulf Shire Council Youth Leadership in Communities Conference - 25-26 June 2013. Roper Gulf Shire Mayor Tony Jack has announced an important initiative to be sponsored by the Roper Gulf Shire in...
Roper Gulf Sire Council’s Mayor Tony Jack is currently a Vice President of the Local Government Association of the Northern Territory and a Director of the Australian Local Government Association. His representation on this board provides for an increased opportunity to raise national recognition of...
Roper Gulf Shire Council has taken delivery of the first two of four new state of the art Rubbish compactor trucks. The trucks costing around $145,000 each are part of a $600,000 replacement program for older waste pick up vehicles and come with new state of the art operating and safety features...
