Yuwaya Ngarra-li – ‘Vision’.
"The Dharriwaa Elders will lead a collaboration with UNSW and other supporters to grow our individual and community strengths and assets. We aim to restore a robust belonging to thriving families, community and country, while making our place in the nation and sharing our learning with other communities". Dharriwaa Elders Group, Walgett.
The purpose of Yuwaya Ngarra-li is for the Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG) and UNSW to work in partnership to improve the wellbeing, social, built and physical environment and life pathways of Aboriginal people in Walgett through collaborating on evidence-based programs, research projects and capacity building, and to evaluate this model of CommUNIty-Led Development as a way of working with other Aboriginal communities.
Yuwaya Ngarra-li is an initiative that will promote two-way learning between Walgett's Dharriwaa Elders Group and a range of UNSW faculties, with long term academic leadership by ASsoc. Professor Ruth McCausland and keenly supported by the Vice-Chancellor
Warning: Images of deceased persons may appear. Yuwaalaraay / Gamilaraay pronunciation guide.
Today (6 June 2018) we launched the Action Plan for Children and Young People. Read here about the Walgett Youth Justice Forum held 14, 15 March 2018 which informed the Action Plan.
UNSW honours student Aidan Alexander was invited to Walgett to work with DEG to scope energy needs of Walgett's Aboriginal community from early 2016.
While visiting Sydney to receive a NSW Justice Award in October 2017 DEG visited UNSW Science SM@RT Centre to meet with Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla and members of her team,
DEG's Project Manager and UNSW Dr Ruth McCausland, working for the DEG / UNSW Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership
Dharriwaa Elders Group invited its champion, Professor Eileen Baldry and her dedicated team at the University of NSW, to join with it in pursuing community-led, holistic approaches for Walgett's community development.
In August 2017, DEG's Wendy Spencer and UNSW Ruth McCausland met with the UNSW School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering team led by Anna Bruce, and Mike Roberts of Pingala, to discuss the next stages of Yuwaya Ngarrali's Walgett energy poverty relief projects.
This timeline summarises a history of some interactions between Walgett's Dharriwaa Elders Group and UNSW since 2006. Today in 2017, Yuwaya Ngarra-li employs two part-time staff who are working to build many ambitious outcomes for Walgett, an Aboriginal town in north west NSW.
On the 29th August 2017 Yuwaya Ngarra-li's Dr Ruth McCausland and Wendy Spencer met with Dr Martin Andersen, Director of the UNSW Connected Waters Institute and Dr Cameron Holley of the Faculty of Law to learn more about how they could work together.
Latest YN Publications
- Caring for Elders, Community and Culture: Briefing Paper
- UN Food Summit 2021 - Walgett Case Study
- Indigenous Community-Led Programs to Address Food and Water Security: Protocol for Systemic Review 2021
- CommUNIty-Led development: A partnership to realize Aboriginal Elders' vision for change 2021
- Statement 12 August 2019 re Walgett's Drinking Water
- Statement 12 August 2019 re Walgett's Food Security
- Yuwaya Ngarra-li Food Forum Report 2019
- Statement re enhancement of Walgett's water infrastructure 22 May 2019
- DEG's statement regarding findings of high salt levels in Walgett's drinking water 2018
- Walgett Action Plan for Children and Young People June 2018
- Walgett Youth Justice Forum Report June 2018
- Yuwaya Ngarra-li Youth Justice Forum Statement March 2018.
This logo shows the totem animals of the Dharriwaa Elders Group - Elders from three Aboriginal nations. The wayamba (short-necked turtle) for the Yuwaalaraay people, the dhinawan (emu) for the Ngayiimbaa people, and the bawurra (red kangaroo) for the Gamilaraay people. A gidjiirr (Acacia cambagei), an important hardwood tree for medicine and tools, is in the background
PO Box 174 Walgett NSW 2832 Australia