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Work with us! Aboriginal Female Youth Worker – Galuma-li Youth Wellbeing Service. Apply now.

Chris Weatherall and DEG’s Lead Community Responses Vanessa Hickey proud that Dharriwaa Elders Group is providing chilled low sodium drinking water to the whole Walgett community

DEG is celebrating a HUGE Milestone. Since launching our Reverse Osmosis Water Kiosk on 13 December 2023, as at 6 May 2026 we have dispensed 53,060 litres of chilled low-sodium drinking water!

Dharriwaa Elders Group made an important submission to the Murray Darling Basin Review of the Murray Darling Basin Plan 30 April 2026.

Statement from Dharriwaa Elders Group: Important community asset lost to fire & our commitment to rebuild
Walgett, NSW – 11/12/2025

NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley and Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon met with the Walgett Wellbeing Collaboration at Galuma-li in Walgett 5/11/25.

We are proud that our Baulaarr Bagay Warruwi Burranba-li-gu (Two River Pathway to Change) model for Dharriwaa Elders Group's Youth Wellbeing Service was selected for one of only two Australian case studies

Galuma-li Statement: Standing Together for our children and young people and community. 23 October 2025. A response to recent media opinion about “epidemic of youth crime” and the rights of Walgett children and young people’s open use of their pool.

view from where the Castlereagh River begins from Siding Springs observatory

On the 13/10/25 a group of Elders travelled with members of the Walgett River Rangers to the headwaters of the Ngamaay and Castlereagh Rivers in the Warrumbungle ranges.

In its recent submission to the NSW Government re draft Water Sharing Plans for the "unregulated" Wambuul, Baawan and Ngamaay rivers made in October 1995

an image that signifies how DEG loves the children of Walgett

At its meeting of the 29 August 2025, the Elders Council made its Statement of Commitment to Child Safety:

As of 21 October 2025, DEG's gali has dispensed 33,288 litres of water!

On 19 August 2025, Dharriwaa Elders Group’s Ngarrangarra-li Walaaybaa Rangers joined a cultural burn at Narran Lake Nature Reserve.

DEG's Rick Townsend, Norma Kennedy, Vanessa Hickey, Shane Fernando and John Sands with Jake Gillies Aboriginal and Cultural Officer NSW DCCEEW Water Group after the information session held in Walgett 31 July 2025 in Walgett by the Water Group re the Toolkit Measures fishway projects.

Delegates from DEG attended an info session hosted by NSW DCCEEW's Water Group in Walgett 31 July 2025.

DEG's Speaker Sandra Suey-Thorne speech at the official launch of Galuma-li

Walgett, NSW – 23/7/2025 – The Dharriwaa Elders Group proudly announces the official opening of Galuma-li, a vibrant, community-led space meaning ‘Care for’