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We’re safe in the hands of these mighty warriors

NORFORCE Private Jerry Nugget, LCPL Drew Perry and Private Roy Rriaywala last week conducting small-craft handling drills on Melville Bay as NORFORCE’s Arnhem Squadron last Wednesday joined up Custom officers to conduct a joint training activity. Report and photos Page 6. >>

Refuge closure condemned

By ANDREW HARRISON

PRISCILLA COLLINS - A huge step backwards.

NHULUNBUY MLA Lynne Walker and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) have attacked the NT Government’s decision to close the drug- and alcohol-treat-

ment centres in the town, describing it as ‘disappointing’ and a “huge step backwards”.

The 24-bed residential “soberingup” shelter facility was purpose built in 2007 to provide treatment voluntarily for those with substance

misuse problems.

Many of the program participants are Indigenous and benefit from nearest to family and connection to country with opportunities to fullfil cultural obligations.

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LYNNE WALKER - Incredibly disappointing,

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Closures: ‘Disappointing’, ‘huge step backwards’ << From Page 1 Ms Walker said: “Fears have been confirmed that the sobering-up shelter adjacent to the rehabilitation centre (which is mandatory) will also be closed, and both parts will be converted into a 50-bed corrections facility.

“These are incredibly disappointing decisions.”

Those seeking treatment will be forced to Darwin and other towns, Ms Walker said.

The NAAJA said: The closure of the centres is “a huge step backwards.

“The evidence is clear that rehabilitation is much more effective when people are able to maintain connec-

tions with partners, their kids, family and home,” agency chief executive Priscilla Collins said.

“People should not have to come all the way to Darwin to go to rehab,” she said.

“If the government is genuinely concerned about community safety, they need to listen to the experts on ‘what works’ and it needs to address the underlying causes of offending.”

The Arafura Times last week interviewed NT Minister for Correctional Services John Elferink on the plans to build a 50-bed prison work camp at as-then unannounced location.

The CLP disputed Ms

Walker’s and the agency’s assertions, saying the units were closing become they were underused and wanted to direct their budget elsewhere.

NT Health Minister Robyn Lambley said the sobering-up shelter will remain open in Nhulunbuy “to allow for community consultation about what alcohol and other drug services best suit the community’s needs”.

The shelter’s demand has significantly fallen in recent years, and it was important “to find the best solution to tackle alcohol and drug issues,” Mrs Lambley said.

“The sobering-up shelter has been operating just three

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nights a week - Wednesday to Friday - and its numbers have dropped from 700 admissions in 2011, to just 460 admissions of repeat clients last year,” she said.

To date this year there have been been 200 admissions of repeat clients, and it was decided to redirect funds to other services, Mrs Lambley said.

Ms Walker countered the declining numbers were because the centre’s methods had worked.

The NAAJA was concerned the government saw jail as the answer to all problems.

The agency pointed to a Deloitte Access Economics and the National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee 2013 report that half of Indigenous prisoners linked their offending to substance misuse.

The report showed diverting offenders into community residential rehabilitation services instead of incarceration was not only cheaper, but it also produced lower recidivism rates and better health outcomes.

It costs more than $100,000 a year to jail a person, and the NT’s prison population per head was five times the national average, the NAAJA said.

“The NT needs to end its obsession with mass incarceration,” it said in its release.

The NAAJA also was concerned defendants should not have to go to prison to access work.

“The NT needs noncustodial sentencing options that help people become job ready, but that do not expose them to all the negative aspects of incarceration,” Ms Collins said.

The NAAJA called on the government to keep the centre open, and urged it to invest in evidence-based justice initiatives and to boosted rather than cut funding for non-custodial sentencing options.

“The courts should not have their hands tied. They should be able to sentence people whose offending is due to alcohol and drug addiction to rehab, and not jail.”

Mrs Lambley said: “Labor has never supported Alcohol Mandatory Treatment (AMT), and it is interesting that the Member for Nhulunbuy is showing support for the program now that it is starting to show good results in the Territory, especially in Alice Springs.”

Four clients had been referred for treatment in the past nine months, out of a total of more than 300 referred for treatment under AMT across the NT. “The government has decided that this funding is better directed into AMT

in other parts of the Territory, where there is a higher demand, such as Katherine and Tennant Creek.”

In 2014, the NT Government is investing in a 12-bed facility at Tennant Creek and a new 20-bed facility in Katherine, with plans to expand the number of beds in Alice Springs.

Ms Walker said to compared Nhulunbuy’s needs and results with other centres such as Katherine or Tennant Creek was like “comparing apples with oranges”.

For instance, the Tennant Creek centre was outside the town, while Nhulunbuy’s was 1km from the town centre.

“Current clients at the Nhulunbuy centre will be managed to the end of their order,” Mrs Lambley said.

“There was a nominal allocation of $460,000 to the AMT program in Nhulunbuy. Current employees will be offered opportunities to work for other Government Departments,” she said.

The change meant great opportunity for the Sentenced to a Job program and let access Nhulunbuy access their labour, Mrs Lambley said.

“The facility in Nhulunbuy suits the operation of a work camp, and given its location and secure fence it will allow inmates to move in at minimal cost.”

“The permanent low-security prisoner work camp will keep inmates close to their traditional homeland” while also boosting their job opportunities upon release.”

Ms Walker said there has been no consultation with the community about the removal of these services and the conversion of buildings for an entirely different purpose after years of efforts to lobby for them.

“This facility, alongside the strong alcohol management plan targeting supply in Nhulunbuy, has delivered an effective system, which has reduced alcohol-related harm and with it a corresponding reduction in crime and domestic and family violence.

Ms Walker welcomed the work camp, but not at the expense of the treatment centres.

Nhulunbuy had gained little from both the NT and Federal budgets at a time when it needs economy stimulus.

Ms Walker said the CLP Government also will be removing the night patrol services from Nhulunbuy.

“Night patrols play a vital part in the alcohol management system in Nhulunbuy.”

Ms Walker asserted the Government had failed to recognise the needs and aspirations of the community.

Rogers appointed Nhulunbuy co-ordinator THE Northern Territory Government has appointed senior public servant Jim Rogers (right) to focus on regional development across the East Arnhem region.

Mr Rogers, who previously lived in Nhulunbuy from 2011 to 2013, took up his position as regional executive director with the Department of the Chief Minister from last week.

Mr Rogers’ responsibilities will include assuming part of the Nhulunbuy transition work undertaken

by Mike Chiodo, who has been appointed as the acting chief executive officer of the NT’s Department of Community Services.

In his new role Mr Chiodo will continue to play a senior role in the Nhulunbuy transition, including involvement in the Gove Task Force and Gove Community Advisory Community.

Mr Chiodo has been on the ground in Nhulunbuy working across government agencies since late last year after Rio Tinto’s decision to curtail alumina refining.

Mr Chiodo said: “The Territory Government is continuing its work on building economic capacity across the region and identifying opportunities to diversify the range of industries in the East Arnhem.

“I have built strong relationships with many of the town’s residents, and I look forward to continuing to work cooperatively on the next chapter in the development of Gove.”

Mr Rogers said he was looking forward to returning to region following his work in indigenous land management with the Federal Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

“I am excited by the opportunities

for growth in the region and it will be great to again have the opportunity to work with business, government and non-government groups in Nhulunbuy and other East Arnhem communities,” Mr Rogers said.

Jim will be joined in Nhulunbuy by wife Emma and their three young children.

Walk, don’t run on Walk Safely to School Day FRIDAY is National Walk Safely to School Day, an annual, national event when all primary school children will be encouraged to walk and commute safely to school.

It is a community initiative to raise awareness of the health, road safety, transport and environmental benefits that regular walking to and from school can provide for the long term health of children.

Now in its 15th year it encourages primary school aged children

to walk to and from school not just on Friday, May 23, but every day.

Pedestrian Council of Australia chief executive Harold Scrubby said unless teachers, parents, carers and the community generally make behind this event and its objective, the outlook for Australian children was not good.

“The childhood obesity epidemic has reached such critical levels in Australia, that 1 in 4 children are now overweight or obese,” he said.

PRIMARY SCHOOL ELECTS OWN LEADERS, REPRESENTATIVES

ABOVE: Ellie Gordon accepts an award from principal Matt Watson for being polite, helpful and a friendly member of her class TransitionMartin.

BELOW: Ryan Merrett accepts an award from principal Matt Watson for being an enthusiastic member of the school ahead of his departure.

NHULUNBUY Primary School last Friday presented its Student Representative Council, house captains, vice-captains and some worthy students with certificates before a school assembly, friends, family and invited persons.

Lynne Walker MLA awarded the captains, vice-captains and members of the SRC with certificates to recognise their achievements.

The SRC meets regularly to make suggestions to the school council and provide feedback on behalf of the students.

Principal Matt Watson said the house captains and vice-captains were elected by their peers after short campaigns, which involved posters and were encouraged to make speeches to the assembled students.

The captains primarily lead their house sporting teams, but can be called upon the represent the school at functions, and show visitors around the school, Mr Watson said.

Captains were restricted to Year 6, but vice-captains could come from Year 5.

All the eligible students were encouraged to “have a go” running election campaigns and experience the mechanisms of politics, Mr Watson said.

This year’s girls’ and boys’ captains for Arnhem house are Patrick Watson and Lacey Asplin, while Laith Cavanagh and Frances Gurruwiwi were elected vice-captains.

Daliwuy is represented this year by LaMon Fobres and Tailah Whitmore as the boys’ and girls’

captains, and Callan Carey and Ella Seaniger as the vice-captains.

Brady Dooley and Claire Harris were elected boys’ and girls’ captain of Mitchell house, while Jamie Moyle and Jolie Ross were named vice-captains.

Quade Te Oka and Wanetta Willis were elected the boys’ and girls’ captains of Wirrwuwuy house this year, while Jacob Brine and Lucy Harrington are this year’s vice-captains.

A student from each class in years 3 to 6 was elected to the SRC. They are Jayde Hughes (3C), Kyanne Priestley (3B), Michael Millar-Fitzgerald (3M), Ned Pitkin (4W), Tia Langridge (4T), Daniel Maher (4H), Indari Ferguson (5W), Ashley Frick (5A), Hannah Devon (5F), Riley Young (6S), Tegan Stiff (6B) and Cooper Ferguson (6M).

Mr Watson also gave special students a certificates to recognise their manners, hospitality, attitude and co-operation.

He spoke to the assembled crowd about the captains’ and vice captains’ bravery to campaign for their positions, admitting even he got nervous before giving a speech.

BELOW: Tailah Whitmore accepts her certificate for election as the Daliwuy house girls’ captain from Lynne Walker.

Hannah Devon accepting her certificate of membership to the SRC from Lynne Walker MLA.

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Flying hulls over and around Australia

AS A reconnaissance vehicle to discover the best breaks, you can’t beat a seaplane, said surfer ABOVE LEFT: Nick Keeley, 12, and David Geers. ABOVE: Nick Keeley and David Geers returning from a flight at Drimmie Head. and pilot Marty Corr.

Mr Corr, 53, a consultant ABOVE RIGHT: Nick Keeley, 12, and David Geers coming up the boat ramp from landing. for the oil and gas industry, was Flying about four hours a day because He learned to fly, then started planthe NSW north coast. part of an expedition of four seaplanes of fuel tank limitations, the group Promoting the efforts of the Make- ning. and six travellers who touched down last A-Wish foundation, the group also The seaplanes gave the expediters the Geers, Errol Pillemeer (a retired 747 Wednesday at the old flying boat ramp, have been giving kids joy flights, which freedom to land almost anywhere along captain) and his wife Colleen, Corr, at Drimmie Head, on the downhill run of squadron leader David Geers said the coast, Mr Geers said.

Wilson and Doug Bauer - have been their circumnavigation of the Australian were as a great experience for both the “See a nice patch of water. Stop for a recording the 14,000km journey on coastline.

High Definition cameras on a tripod picnic,” he said. children and the pilot.

Ski Beach had probably not seen as And flying low at about 100 feet, or mounted to their aircraft with plans “We get more fun out of it than the many seaplanes together at once since kids do,” said Mr Geers, who organised compared with conventional aircraft to produce a documentary about their the height of World War II. at a minimum of 1000 feet, gave the adventure, which will cost each about a the expedition.

With about 100 seaplanes in Australia The planes perform a “touch and squadron the opportunity to see things minimum of $10,000. and only half sea-and-airworthy at any go” - or take-off and landing on water that ground-based traveller - and most For Mrs Pillemeer, the aquamarine one point, the expedition represented - flying over the child’s school, and other aviators - would never see; the waters and many small islands off about a sizable chuck of the nation’ fleet. transformation on the kids is miraculous, evolving landscapes, crocodiles, sharks, the northern West Australian coast To Mr Corr’s knowledge, it was the said Mr Geers, 53. dugongs, dolphins, seals, whales and and breaking waves along the Great largest and most-complete circumnaviAustralian Bight escarpments were “It’s a fantastic to see their smiles. other animals. gation expedition by seaplane to date.

They’re flown over the Nullarbor, “magnificent”.

The kids start off shy and are beaming Since leaving the Brisbane area in by the end. The parents are as equally Shark Bay, the salt pans of Port Hedland, For the other travellers, it was too March, the group, called Australian happy to see the joy in their kids’ faces.” the majestic falls of the Kimberley and difficult to chose one item out of the Seaplane Adventures. has been on a Mr Geers, who owns a small com- Kakadu, and were looking forward to hundreds they had experienced. journey clockwise around the continent puter shop in Brisbane, said the genesis the Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York and “Every day there was something and collecting participants along the way, of the “life-changing” trip was about Great Barrier Reef on their way home. magically,” said Mr Corr, who ranks including Andrew Wilson, 47, from Lord 35 years ago when he drove around All will complete the circumnavigation flying along side wedge-tailed eagles Howe Island, who joined the squadron Australia and thought “there’s got to be from different starting points along the among his favourite experiences. with his Freedom Colyaer S100 along a better way to do it than this”.

The aircraft were almost ultralight eastern seaboard.

in design, more akin to the Catalinas of WWII - flying hulls - but simple enough to build from five-metrelong kits.

Mr Bauer, 49, built his own seaplane over three years at home - finishing about six months before the expedition.

He had to perform about 150 take-offs and landings to assert its sturdiness, and is now classed an aeronautical engineer so he can maintain his own aircraft.

“They are expensive to maintain compared to a normal aircraft,” said Mr Bauer, from Maryborough, who sprays the metal parts with lanolin to prevent corrosion.

Mr Corr, who is currently building his own aircraft and has co-piloted with Mr Geers on this trip, said the aviators had to wash down their aircraft at the end of each day to preserve the metal.

“Don’t do it and you’ll need a new one in two years,” he said.

If he had found the ultimate break, Mr Corr wasn’t going to share it.

For more information, see the group’s journey on its Facebook page, Australian Seaplane Adventures.

BUDGET 2014-15 Securing Our Children’s Future Helping the family budget by $2145 Budget 2014 will save a family with three children up to $2145 a year through a boost to sports vouchers, increased childcare subsidies and the $150 Back to School payment.

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The Sports Voucher will now cover activities such as dance, music lessons and other artistic and cultural pursuits to ensure Territory kids can participate in their favourite sport or recreational activity.

The scheme will also be expanded to cover swimming lessons for children aged up to five years not enrolled in school, who have completed the Government’s Under 5 Water Safety Awareness Program.

Visit www.sportvoucher.nt.gov.au to find out more.

The Budget increases the childcare subsidy by 10%, meaning it now contributes about $1445 per year towards the cost of day care for a child under two. The subsidy will also cover family day care, meaning an additional 1000 Territory children will be eligible.

Back to School Payment In addition, the $6.6 million Back to School payment will continue to provide $150 payments per student across all Territory schools to help parents with expenses such as school uniforms and textbooks.

For a family of three children, two school aged and one under two in child care, this equates to a savings of $2145 to the household budget.

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Tina White’s journey to Midwife of the Year MY HUSAND, Jason, and myself moved to Nhulunbuy in 2003 with our young children, Lucy and Sean.

Initially I worked in the maternity unit, Ward 2 at Gove District Hospital as a midwife.

During my time at GDH, I secured an NT Government scholarship to help me in completing my Masters in Nursing in Child, Family and Community at the end of 2005.

In the past nine years, I have worked as a Midwife/Maternal and Child Health Nurse in remote and community settings and as a Remote Area Nurse in Yirrkala.

During this time I have had the privilege of working alongside the

Midwifery service and Child Health service for these communities with the immediate team of Emma Whitmore, Child and Family Health Nurse, and Valerie Dhmarrandji, community-based worker, we work closely with our colleagues in the Gunyangara and Miwatj Town clinics.

Currently the team is planning a Girls Camp for 11-15 year olds with a focus on their health and well-being, building relationships and engaging the young women in making healthy lifestyle choices to build strong communities.

We have a great team providing each other with support and we aim to have a laugh every day!

Aboriginal Health Practitioners, Strong Women Workers and community-based workers.

By walking alongside these highly skilled and knowledgeable men and women, they have helped me to keep cultural integrity and delivering a locally relevant and meaningful service.

My Yolngu colleagues have described me as having makmakthun, which means respect, I have a deep respect for the Yolngu world view and culture.

Since July, 2012, I have worked for Miwatj Aboriginal Health Service as the Co-Ordinator of Child and Maternal Health in Nhulunbuy, Gunyangara, Birritjimi and Galupa.

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TINA White earlier this month won the Midwife of the Year, and was also named Nurse/Midwife of the Year in the 2014 Northern Territory Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards, which were presented at Parliament House in Darwin.

Territorians recognised the hard work and dedication that its nurses and midwives show every day, with 130 nominees and 34 finalists for excellence in 11 categories of nursing and midwifery practice.

Ms White works for Miwatj Health and received seven nominations across three categories midwifery, remote area nursing/midwifery, and leadership.

She is a highly respected midwifery leader among her peers, and has gained the trust and recognition of the Yolngu community and colleagues, who praised Tina for her dedication and caring “with open heart and open mind”.

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Steve Clelland directs LCPL Drew Perry coming alongside the Customs CRV McArthur River.

NORFORCE’s Arnhem Squadron last week joined up with Custom and Border Protection Service officers to conduct

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Ever vigilant on land - and sea

PTE Jerry Nugget, LCPL Drew Perry, PTE Roy Rriaywala conducting small-craft handling drills on Melville Bay.

East Arnhem Land, rehearsed inserting the troop to conduct a surveillance operation using the Nhulunbuybased Customs R e s p o n s e Ve s s e l McArthur River, and practise interception by Customs of suspicious vessels observed by the Private Roy Rriaywala with comrades. patrols. of the Australian Army’s of the most exposed and The men embarked from the Perkins boat ramp contribution to the efforts is olated. Operations to practice manoeuvres to protect the nation’s bor- were scaled back as the into and out of Zodiacs ders and offshore maritime Japanese threat toward Australia diminished. from the McArthur River. interests.

NORFORCE (NorthThe unit was disbanded “The purpose of the activity was to develop West Mobile Force) was in March 1945.

Because of the simiinteroperability between established in 1981 to Customs and NORFORCE protect the sovereignty of larities between the two patrols for border protec- the northern Australia. Its units and in order to give tion patrols across Arnhem history spans back as far NORFORCE an identity it was decided that it would Land later this year” said as 1942.

Its lineage goes back perpetuate the NAOU Officer Commanding Arnhem Squadron, Major to 2/1st North Australia traditions, and as such Observer Unit (NAOU, NORFORCE officially Tim Robinson said.

He remained schtum also known as the Nacka- adopted the NAOU’s roos), which were formed orange and green “double about future patrols.

“No need to forecast in during World War II diamond” colour patch our intent with a timeline,” as part of the defence of and its unit heritage upon northern Australia. formation. said Major Robinson.

The Nackeroos had a The unit has adopted “It was good in the Zods,” said Lance Corpo- strategic as well as tactical the frill-necked lizard as its role to perform recon- official badge. The lizard, ral Drew Perry.

“It was pretty rough naissance, scouting and apart from being in abuncoastal surveillance across dance at its Regimental and we got soaked.”

“It was good to teach Northern Australia’s sea Headquarters is based at some of the newer lads a and air approaches - some Larrakeyah Barracks in few new things with the NORFORCE soldiers arrive by a C-130 Hercules. boats,” he said.

“I was the second in command of the patrol, and the Zodiac coxswain.”

“I’ve been in NORFORCE for seven years, but this was the first time I’ve been able to work alongside Customs officers,” said Private Roy Rriaywala, from Ramingining.

“I learned a lot of new skills this week.”

The squadron is part

Darwin, shared many attributes with the NORFORCE soldier, most notably its remarkable camouflage.

By nature, it avoids a fight but if cornered will defend itself most capably and effectively, while its long hind legs let it turn on an impressive burst of speed when needed.

On the other hand, a vital skill for a reconnaissance soldier is the ability to move stealthily, stalking its prey.

NORFORCE’s area of operation covers 1.8 million square kilometres - the largest of any military unit - encompassing the entire NT and the Kimberley region of Western Australia; no amount of radar or patrols can ever successfully protect the north from any of threat, military or otherwise.

The Arnhem Squadron is responsible for the eastern NT with its headquarters in Nhulunbuy.

The regiment relies heavily on the commitment of the population of northern Australia to fulfil its role. It is consisted

of a cadre of about 65 regular army personnel supporting more than 400 Reservists, many of whom are Indigenous persons from remote communities who bring to the army their traditional knowledge and networks.

NORFORCE soldiers played an important role supporting the army, which helped the Federal Government with its intervention into Aboriginal communities. The soldiers possess valuable contacts in many of the communities, and helped facilitate medical initiatives during the Intervention.

The regiment enjoys great support from the local population from which it draws its soldiers, and which is its reason for existing.

These soldiers - who know the sea and their country like no others, better than a GPS system and in more detail than a satellite image - are seen in their communities as protectors of Aboriginal land, and NORFORCE itself creates pride within the army and communities.

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WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE 2014 BUDGET Compiled by MARK BOUSEN Group Editor of Regional and Remote Newspapers.

Publishers of the Arafura Times. * Compiled from news sources around Australia and the world.

(NOTE: Mark Bousen is 68 next month; never smoked; life-long tee-totaler. He and Meg, wife of 47 years, have never been on a cruise.)

One packet of cigarettes costs $22. That gives you three visits to the doctor. You can spend just over $3 on a middy of beer, so that’s two middies of beer to go to the doctor. - Treasurer Joe Hockey.

(Mr Hockey’s Parliamentary salary is about $365,000. Mr Hockey’s wife reportedly earns about $3 million a year with a major world bank.)

Pain all round. - Treasurer Joe Hockey. The budget will hit everyone. All of us will have to “contribute budget repair”.

(Except that we won’t. The latest tax statistics show 75 ultra-high-earning Australians paid no tax at all in 2011-12.

Zero. Zip. Each earned more than $1 million from investments or wages. Between them they made $195 million, an average of $2.6 million each.

The fortunate 75 paid no income tax, no Medicare levy and no Medicare surcharge, even though 60 of them had private health insurance.

The reason? They managed to cut their combined taxable incomes to $82. That’s right, $1.10 each.)

• The indexation of the petrol excise will cost families just 40 cents more a week in the first year. - Treasurer Joe Hockey.

(The tax on the price of a full 60 litre tank of petrol — the average family car — will be $2.75, according to the Automobile Association of Australia.)

• This budget is a clear victory for Australia’s 1%. - The Guardian. (“1%” are the richest whose have a growing share of income and wealth.)

• As usual, the influence of the wealthy on the framing of the budget is reflected more in what isn’t there. The Guardian.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should contribute (to the Medicare co-payment) when health equality is achieved. - Dr Tom Calma.

• Our people are amongst the sickest, poorest and most marginalised Australians, so the pain of some measures will be felt especially hard by us. - National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples Co-Chair Kirstie Parker.

• The really remarkable thing is that this great big cut in health and welfare spending does not translate into a big reduction in the deficit, and that’s because most of it goes on paying for the Coalition’s election promises. - Alan Kohler, businessspectator.com.au • Joe Hockey was right in saying our future depends on what we do today. What he did last Tuesday night was guar-

antee Australia’s future is fixed in a 1960s vision of the world.- Paul Wallbank, businessspectator. com.au • If the GST had applied to food, as it should have – and it would have but for the actions of the Senate – we would have now seen about $10-$11 billion a year at least flowing to the states. Former Prime Minister John Howard.

• For Prime Minister Tony Abbott, this was not so much a budget as a settling of old scores.

Giles Parkinson, Re-

I don’t want people to say: “Oh those blokes in Canberra are making me suffer while they get off scot free.” - Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

(Mr Abbott, who pockets a salary of more than $500,000 a year, said he will have to pay about $6500 under the new tax to target high-income earners. His freeze on politicians’ pay rise will cost him about $10,000. Backbenchers about $3000.)

Older Australians are relying on the age pension because they are blowing their super on cruises and luxury items. - Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss.

Mr Truss’s Parliamentary expenditure for January 1 to June 30, 2013, was $218,901.09. This included travel expenses of $107,839.24, including $12,058.13 for family travel for the six months’ period. This is in addition to his salary of about $400,000.

SOCIAL MEDIA Social was alive with comments on the budget.

TWITTER in three words drew a huge response, almost universally condemning the budget.

Here are a few.

Eat the poor Reverse Robin Hood No. New taxes Work until death. Young? Bad luck That stopped vote Advance Australia Unfair Worst government ever Australians for coal

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• Australians have not been not told the truth as to what is really behind the spending cuts that were started by Wayne Swan but have now been multiplied many times

by Joe Hockey. It’s time to tell them. Robert Gottliebsen.

• Australia is the only country founded with a deliberately imposed class system and the Liberal Party’s budget shows the battle is still on in earnest for equality.

What else can possibly be said about the worst

Australian Budget in history that wasn’t said

by Abbott’s smirk as Hockey screwed the students? – independentaustralia.net • The 2014 Federal Budget has attracted considerable attention for its deleterious effect on the welfare safety net, education and health funding. The impact on the disadvantaged is likely to be considerable, especially young unemployed people, some pensioners and the disabled. - David James, Eureka Street.

com.au • The federal budget has been written for big business, and young Australians, the sick and vulnerable are the hardest hit. - Australian Greens EDUCATION • The Abbott government’s reforms to universities is the end of the world as we know it. - Simon Marginson, from the Institute of Edu-

cation at the University of London, one e world’s most-eminent professors of higher education • Children of the wealthy will receive massive public subsidies to attend the best universities. Poor families will find themselves not at (outer metropolitan) universities but the cheap for-profit colleges that spend a high proportion of their revenue on

marketing. Or they will not bother at all. - Simon Marginson.

THE POOR This has been kind of an easy grab by the government on the backs of some of the world’s poorest people. - Oxfam CEO Helen Szoke The world’s poor are now carrying the great bulk of the budget reductions. Save The Children CEO Paul Ronalds.

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WEEKLY Every Wednesday. Nine-hole Chook Run, Gove Country Golf Club, 2.30 - 5.30pm.

Every Wednesday. Barefoot Bowls at the Arnhem Club, from 5.30pm, followed by Karaoke.

Every Wednesday. Walkabout Dart Competition Walkabout Tavern from 8pm.

Every Thursday. Badge Draw, Arnhem Club, from 5.30pm.

Every Thursday. Auskick, 4pm, Hindle Oval Evey Thursday. AFL games U12's 5pm, U16's 6.30pm, Hindle Oval.

Every Friday. Nine-hole Beer Run, Gove Country Golf Club, 2.30 - 5.30pm.

Every Friday. TGIF Weekly Draw, in the Walkabout Tavern from 4.30pm, prizes drawn at 6.30pm.

Every Friday. Jag the Joker, Arnhem Club, tickets from 5-6pm, draw 6-9pm.

Every Friday. Gove Surf Club open from 4pm, great views and family atmosphere, BBQ 6-8pm.

Every Friday & Saturday. Grant Pukeroa live in the Beer Garden, 9pm-3am @ The Arnhem Club.

Every Friday & Saturday. DJ Wil.K The Baddist, live in The Jam, 9pm 'til late - Walkabout Tavern.

Every Saturday. Live music at the Arnhem Club.

Every Sunday. Emma in the Beer Garden from 3pm - Walkabout Tavern.

Every Monday. Junior AFL Training, 4pm, Hindle Oval.

Every Tuesday. Cricketers can practice at the Nhulunbuy Primary nets, 4.30pm.

Every Tuesday. Pool Comp at the Arnhem Club, from 7pm.

Every Tuesday. Trivia at The Arnhem Club, 8 - 9.30pm.

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Wed 21. Storytime Two many elephants in this house, 10-11am, Nhulunbuy Library.

Wed 21. Biggest Morning Tea, 11am, Nhulunbuy Library.

Wed 21. Baby show, Rika Park, 10am - noon, Yirrkala.

Fri 23. Miwatj Health Day, 1424 Arnhem Rd, 9am - 1pm.

Fri 23. Walk Safely to School Day. Fri 23. Miwatj Health Day, 1424 Arnhem Rd, 9am-1pm.

Sat 24. Art and Craft Market, Town Hall, 9am - 12pm.

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 letters to the editor/comment BUDGET 2014 Winners and losers

THE LOSERS Sick people - new $7 co-payment to see a doctor; Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme c o-payment increased for medicines over $42.70; states and Background and information courtesy thenewdaily.com.au territories authorised to charge fee for GP-type emergency department visits.

Families - assistance rates frozen for two years; freeze on thresholds for private health insurance rebate; Family Tax Benefit B threshold capped at $100,000 income and limited to families where youngest child under six years of age.

Pensioners - retirement age to increase to 70 by 2035; pension increases slowed by indexing to inflation instead of wages.

High-income earners - people on $180,000 plus paying additional 2 per cent income tax for three years.

Unemployed people - under 25s to get Youth Allowance, not Newstart; under 30s face six month wait for benefits and must work for the dole.

Retirees - Untaxed super income included in test for new recipients of Seniors Health Card, and annual seniors supplement abolished from July 1 2014.

Motorists - increase in petrol excise and indexation reintroduced to raise $2.2 billion over four years.

Public service - 16,500 job cuts in next three years.

Science - Cuts totaling $147 million over four years at CSIRO, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and Australian Institute of Marine Science loses.

Politicians, senior pub servants - one-year pay freeze, gold pass wound back then abolished.

Poor nations - foreign aid growth cut by $7.9 billion over five years.

Clean energy - Australian Renewable Energy Agency abolished, saving $1.3 billion over five years from 2018; $460 million over three years cut from Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships research program.

A Budget to enshrine inequality GOVERNMENTS have always included in their budgets a ‘we’re serious’ clause. It doesn’t address the real problems of the economy, saves relatively little money, but it is a symbol of the government’s fierce determination to fix the economy.

It has normally been directed at the vices of the underclass. Once it took the form of increasing the tax on booze and cigarettes, the working man’s weaknesses. Nowadays governments slash spending on the disadvantaged.

And so it is in the latest Budget.

This change from demonising things to demonising people deserves reflection.

The decision to make an example of welfare recipients in the Budget was clearly taken before the appointment of the Audit Commission. The enquiry into welfare had been announced as a way of reducing unsustainable expenditure. Yet the growth in expenditure on welfare has in fact been relatively modest compared with other areas of government. The decision had to do with politics and ideology, not with economic need.

The impact on disadvantaged young people will be particularly harsh, particularly on those who have no safe home. Their income support will be unreliable, their access to appropriate education

more difficult, and health care more costly. The cuts to education and health will also affect the services provided by the states The practice of further disadvantaging the already disadvantaged reflects growing inequality between the more affluent and the disadvantaged members of society. Although a common response to discussions of inequality is to decry the ‘politics of envy’, the effects of growing inequality are real and corrosive in society.

Government ministers and the heads of the public service are relatively affluent. They mix with and consult others who are notably affluent. Neither affluence nor consorting, of course, is a moral fault. But the style in which we live and the people with whom we live and speak shape our imagination, the way we instinctively see the world. And what matters to those with whom we mix and what they take for granted will also matter more to us. We come to share their view of the world.

In an unequal society in which politicians and senior bureaucrats are relatively affluent they are likely to share with their conversation partners a working vision whose effect will be to entrench and deepen privilege. They will accept the gods of economic growth, competition and the market as

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inescapable, if not totally benign, and define the public good in terms of economic growth without asking whom it benefits.

They will also instinctively accept the division of society into winners and losers, and so believe that losers are responsible for their own weakness, and are morally at fault. This makes it natural to dismiss financial support for the disadvantaged as part of a decent society, and so to redefine it as a reward for jumping through a number of humiliating hoops. It also makes it harder to see that disadvantage often means you can’t jump. Shared affluence leads to a failure of the imagination.

Inequality also makes it more likely that disadvantaged people will be used for target practice.

When economic liberalism rules it is easy to make those who cannot compete scapegoats to deflect public anger from the deficiencies of the government.

Shared affluence means that this can be done with an untroubled conscience. So if the government becomes unpopular we may expect attacks on asylum seekers, the unemployed, youth with disabilities Indigenous Australians and all the usual suspects.

Inequality of wealth and power tend to perpetuate themselves and to become more deeply routed in society. The narrowing of the

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WINNERS Business - company tax cut by 1.5 per cent to 28.5 per cent for 800,000 businesses.

Medical research - $20 billion Medical Research Future Fund created.

Universities - can set own tuition fees from 2016.

Private colleges and TAFEs - government to provide grants to students doing diploma and sub-bachelor courses.

Apprentices - Trade Support Loans up to $20,000 over four year apprenticeship (replaces tools allowance).

Older workers - $10,000 payment for companies employing over-50s who have been on unemployment benefits for six months.

Infrastructure programs - $11.6 billion infrastructure growth package.

Mothers - paid parental leave scheme from July 2015, albeit reduced to $100,000 income cap.

Miners - abolishing the mining tax

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political imagination is reinforced by practices like cash for access, in which the economically powerful and the politically powerful are brought together to further their individual interests. The voice of the poor or of the common good will not be heard in that land.

So inequality makes it easy for governments to identify the common good with the interests of the affluent and so to serve their interests. In the Budget the financial restrictions placed on regulatory agencies and the abolition of many statutory bodies will certainly make it easier for wealthy developers to circumvent regulations and to enrich themselves without respect for the environment or social needs of the nation.

Australia will survive this Budget. But it will survive as a more divided nation with less sense of mutual responsibility. And the enshrinement of inequality will further exacerbate the disillusion with democracy characteristic of so many Western nations. Democracy rests on the acknowledgment of the unique and equal value of each citizen.

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 letters to the editor/comment No plan, no impact statement for prison in Nhulunbuy: ‘Bad for town’ UNFORTUNATELY last week’s Arafura Times headline should have read “NT Minister for Justice Defrauds Nhulunbuy of Community Safety, Security, Jobs and Facilities” in my opinion.

Justice and Health department public servants flew into Nhulunbuy to announce that, instead of putting some effort, thought and money into a new facility, located well outside the town residential area, they would be taking our community rehabilitation centre and sobering-up shelter off us and using it as a prison.

All facilities originally partially built and kept with Nhulunbuy ratepayers and donors money.

They then scuttled back to Darwin. No word of a community impact statement. No word of any local consultation. No word on what a war zone Nhulunbuy will become again with no sobering-up shelter.

No word on compensation to rate payers and donors for stolen assets.

(This is all from the NT

Justice Department remember!)

The department heads also admitted there was “no plan” and they want to move the prisoners here immediately and figure out how it will work later.

They will be bringing prisoners here from prisons in Darwin and Alice Springs, and putting them into a cage in Nhulunbuy that my grandmother could get out of.

This is bad for Nhulunbuy in my opinion.

A prison right next to a school and right in the middle of the town’s major children’s recreational area doesn’t appear to me to be a well-thought through concept.

Who will let their kids walk to school by themselves with the chance that a violent offender may pick that moment to run amok? Would an escaped, cornered prisoner decide that an unguarded school may be the best place to take hostages? What weapons will be used at the facility?

How will stray bullets

from high-powered weapons be constrained within the prison’s flimsy fences?

Will we have a division of the Tactical Response Group based in Nhulunbuy to counter this threat as they do in Darwin and Alice Springs?

Without a community impact statement and supporting data none of this information will be available to residents.

The “prison” concept I’ve heard about is a far cry from the warm and fuzzy Arafura Times article from last week. Was the article a Department of Justice press release or straight from John Elpherink’s electorate office?

There are good reasons that these places are located away from residential and children’s play areas everywhere else.

However, the Minister for Justice has decided that our rights as citizens, and our hard-fought, successful, decades-long community safety initiatives, must be disregarded and trampled so that he can make a political

point.

I believe he has underestimated our determination to defend our kids’ rights to walk the streets of our town in safety though. Of course, there are more lies to come and the government spin doctors will be out in force.

Now, more than ever, we need to call them out for the liars that they are.

However, the worst lies of all were the lies that were told to Yolngu elders and residents, some now deceased, who believed the people who represented the government, the head leaseholder and the Nhulunbuy Corporation when they told them this facility would be used for rehab and treatment and that it would NEVER become a prison.

We believed them because it was unthinkable that anyone would ever be stupid enough to put a prison in such a location anyway. Some of the people told residents and Yolngu these things are still here and some are in positions of power and authority. They can change this decision.

The lease was never set up for this facility to become a prison and the Nhulunbuy Corporation and

the Town Board know this.

They must now stand up for our town as the last line of defence against our nasty,

incompetent, out of control Darwin government.

David Mitchell, Nhulunbuy.

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No joy for Nhulunbuy region in Budget AS EXPECTED, budgets handed down last week by the Territory and Federal governments will bring more pain for NT families with new taxes, which will further drive up the cost of living and alarming cuts to health and education, thanks to Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey.

Darwin and Palmerston appear to be the winners with little spending in the bush and regions, other than the progress of capital infrastructure works that had been previously committed to under the former Labor government such as the upgrade to the emergency department at Gove District Hospital.

There is no new money to the region from the Commonwealth, which tells me any glimpse of hope that we might finally see a

commitment to stumping up for regional structural adjustment packages has all but disappeared.

And from the CLP government, apart from the $2 million announced weeks ago to match Rio Tinto’s contribution for the creation of a regional development corporation, there is little that is new or in addition to the recurrent funding across government services.

For all the talk of the need to seal the Central Arnhem Road there is no new money there, either, simply renovated works associated with Labor’s upgrade to three crossings at the Mainrou and Goyder Rivers and Donydji Creek.

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The reality is there is a need for these services but, ironically, less than the demand in places such as Alice Springs, Katherine or Tenant Creek because we have an effective alcohol management system that cuts alcohol supply and has proven to reduce crime and family and domestic violence.

The CLP must halt these plans, consult with the community and build a separate prison at a location people are comfortable with.

A construction project would be a good economic driver for Nhulunbuy.

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MOTO MADNESS THE bush was alive with moto madness last Saturday and, because of recent rain, mud and dirty gear were the order of the day.

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5:30 Today 8:30 Global Shop Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 10:30 National Morning News 11:30 The Ellen Degeneres Show 12:30 Movie: “A Walk To Remember” (PG - Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart in this coming-of-age story based on the bestselling book. Mandy Moore stars as a straitlaced preacher’s daughter who meets an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he’ll never forget. 2:30 National News Now 3:45 National Afternoon News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 Top Gear 8:10 The NRL Footy Show 10:10 Two And A Half Men: I Scream When I Pee 10:40 Two And A Half Men: One Nut Johnson 11:10 The AFL Footy Show 1:00 Extra 1:30 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News / 5:00 Today

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4:35 Minnie Loves Junior 4:50 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize

FRIDAY 23

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:00 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Dust Echoes 10:05 What I Wrote 10:10 Lockie Leonard 10:35 Double Trouble 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 ABC News With Jane Hutcheon 1:00 Call The Midwife 2:00 At The Movies 2:30 QI 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 TBA 4:00 Last Tango In Halifax 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: The Blitz Dames 6:30 QI: Bombs 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 QLD 8:00 Kitchen Cabinet: Penny Wong 8:30 Old School 9:35 Luther: Luther struggles to hold it together as his personal and professional life intersect and at the same time, find and catch a vicious killer picking off people at the throw of a dice.

10:25 Lateline 11:05 Randling: It’s the final match of the first round and the last two of our ten duos make their debuts. The Bette Davis Cup Squad is up against Manchester and Haberdashery United.

11:35 Rage 5:00 Rage

5:30 Today 8:30 Global Shop Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 10:30 National Morning News 11:30 The Ellen Degeneres Show 12:30 Movie: “Forever Young” (PG) 2:30 National News Now 3:45 National Afternoon News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 LIVE FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - Canterbury Bulldogs Vs Sydney Roosters 9:30 TBA 12:00 Movie: “Cradle 2 The Grave” (AV) - Gang leader Tony pulls off a major diamond heist with his crew, but cop-turned-criminal Ling knows who has the loot and responds by kidnapping Tony’s daughter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, Tony’s lost the diamonds and as he frantically searches for his daughter and the jewels, Tony pairs with a high-kicking government agent and seeks revenge on him.

2:00 The Avengers: Superlative Seven - Steed is pleased to receive an invitation to a fancy dress party held by explorer, Sir George Robertson.

3:00 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 3:30 Brand Developers 4:00 Good Morning America

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie: “Fall Into Darkness” (M) -A woman stages her own death to frame the person she feels is responsible for her brother’s suicide. 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News - Seven News live and comprehensive coverage of breaking news and local, national and international top stories, plus Sport, Finance and Weather updates.

6:30 Better Homes & Gardens 7:00 2014 AFL Premiership Rnd 10 - Geelong North Vs North Melbourne 10:30 TBA 11:30 Movie: “Time Served” (AV) - A woman makes the ultimate sacrifice for her son, when she covers his crime and goes to gaol in his place.

1:30 House Calls To The Rescue 2:30 Home Shopping 3:30 NBC Today

5:00 World News 1:00 Living Black 1:35 Inspector Rex - A Deadly Test 2:30 NITV News Week In Review 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Food Factory 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 This is Brazil! - Rio de Janiro, Racife, Porto Alegre & Manaus 8:30 Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death: A Good Birth - Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series SheWolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage and death.

9:35 Hitler’s Children 10:40 SBS World News Late 11:05 Giro d’Italia - Stage 13 1:30 Kurt Wallander: The Witness 3:15 Movie: “High Lane” (MAV) - A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a mountain trail that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than expected. As they realise that they are not alone, their adventure quickly becomes a fight for survival.

4:55 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize

SATURDAY 24

6:00 Rage 10:30 Rage Guest Programmer 11:30 The Checkout: Factory Seconds 12:00 Australian Story 12:30 The People’s Supermarket 1:20 QI: Bible 1:50 Movie: “At Sword’s Point” (PG) 3:10 Movie: “Goin’ South” (PG) 5:10 River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way 6:00 Saturday Landline 6:30 Gardening Australia 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Last Tango In Halifax: Having come so close to losing each other forever Alan and Celia decide to have a romantic secret wedding as soon as possible. But how will their respective daughters react?

8:30 New Tricks: Only the Brave - The UCOS team reinvestigate the murder of Eddie Chapman, leader of a notorious criminal motorbike gang, the Braves, when new evidence is brought to them by an unlikely source.

9:30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Marked For Murder - Set amidst the passion and fanaticism of 1929 Australian Rules football. When Phryne is duped into investigating the coach’s missing ‘lucky cap’, she discovers a gruesome murder instead.

10:25 The Time Of Our Lives: Chai Li learns Joel is back in town. She is torn between the man she loves and the fierce protection of her family. Can the two reunite? Meanwhile, Luce has a run in with the law.

11:20 Rage Guest Programmer 5:00 Rage

5:30 Children’s Programs 6:30 Weekend Today - Saturday 9:30 Danoz Direct 10:30 Garden Gurus 11:00 Musomagic Outback Tracks 11:30 Cybershack 12:00 The Middle 12:30 Partners 1:00 Movie: “Mao’s Last Dancer” (PG) 3:30 The Bottom Line 4:00 Discover Downunder 4:30 4WD TV 5:00 Getaway 5:30 National News Saturday 6:30 TBA 12:00 Movie: “Red Hill” (AV) - Constable Shane Cooper arrives in the small town of Red Hill in search of a quieter life. But, on Cooper’s first day with the Red Hill Police Department, a convicted murderer escapes from prison and heads straight for Red Hill to kill the men who put him there.

2:00 Spyforce: The Trader - Spyforce operatives Erskine and Gunther are faced with the task of breaking out of New Guinea and escorting a small party to safety.

3:00 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 3:30 Brand Developers 4:30 Extra 5:00 Wesley Impact

5:30 Saturday Disney 6:30 Weekend Sunrise 9:30 The Morning Show Weekend 11:30 Live Well 12:30 TBA 4:30 Creek To Coast 5:00 Queensland Weekender 5:30 Seven News 7:00 2014 AFL Premiership Season Rnd 10: Port Adelaide Vs Hawthorn 10:30 Movie: “Daylight” (M v) - A devastating explosion in the New Jersey Tunnel causes a horrific pile-up, trapping a group of motorists underground. Soon, a former emergency worker witnesses the blast and heads in to guide the handful of survivors to safety before the waters of the river Hudson above them break through and flood the tunnel.

12:45 Special: Greece Is The Word (Part 1) - Nick Giannopoulos returns to the origin of the Olympic Games - Greece - touring cities such as Mykonos, Santorini, Olympia, Delphi and Athens.

1:40 Special: Greece Is The Word (Part 2) 2:30 Harry’s Practice 3:00 Its Written Oceania 3:30 Home Shopping 4:30 Dr Oz - Best Appetite Suppressants To Lose Weight! - Get answers to your health questions from Dr Oz and other leading doctors, hospitals, associations and authors.

5:00 World News 1:00 San Remo Song Festival 2014 3:00 The Visual Language of Herbert Matter 4:00 Contact - Alex Majoli: Iraq 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 AGiro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Road To The 2014 FIFA World Cup 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 London’s Wild Side 8:30 Movie: “A Dangerous Method” (MA) - Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient this psychological film. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud, but soon both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

10:20 Giro d’Italia - Stage 14 1:30 The Pirelli Calendar Saga 2:35 The Ghost Army 3:35 Kill Arman 4:05 Destination Flavour - Japan Bitesize 4:15 UEFA Champions League 2013/2014

SUNDAY 25

SBS

6:00 Rage 8:00 Weekend Breakfast 9:00 Insiders 10:00 Offsiders 10:30 The World This Week 11:00 7.30 QLD 11:30 Songs of Praise: County Fermanagh 12:00 Landline 1:00 Gardening Australia 1:30 Compass: Twilight Songs 2:00 Paths to Portraiture 2:35 Opera Australia: A Masked Ball 5:00 Midsomer Murders: The Axeman Cometh 6:30 Compass: My Big Fat Bar Mitzvah 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Restoration Home: St Peter’s Barn 8:30 Inspector George Gently: Gently Going Under - A suspicious death in a mine, leads Gently and Bacchus to explore the tensions and relationships in a community whose seams have been ripped wide open by politics.

10:00 The Dark Side 11:35 Valentines Day 1:15 Movie: “In Name Only” (PG) 2:50 Restoration Home: St Peter’s Barn 4:05 The New Inventors 4:30 Catalyst 5:00 Gardening Australia 5:30 Best Of Collectors

5:30 Children’s Programs 6:30 Weekend Today 9:30 Financial Review Sunday 10:00 Wide World Of Sports 11:00 Sunday Footy Show 1:00 Maroon Zone 1:30 2014 Intrust Super Cup - Mackay Cutters Vs Ipswich Jets 3:30 Sunday Football - Canberra Raiders Vs North Queensland Cowboys 4:30 National News Sunday 6:00 TBA 8:30 The Mentalist 9:30 Person Of Interest 11:30 Financial Review Sunday 12:00 What Would You Do - Using hidden cameras, host John Quiñones observes and comments on how ordinary people behave when they are confronted with a dilemma that requires them to either take action or walk by and mind their own business.

1:00 Spyforce: The Trader 2:00 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America - Sunday 4:30 National Early Morning News 5:00 Today

5:30 Sophia The First 6:00 Jake and The Neverland Pirates 6:30 Weekend Sunrise 9:30 AFL Game Day 11:00 TBA 1:00 Footy Flashbacks 3:00 2014 AFL Premiership Season Rnd 10: Gold Coast Vs Western Bulldogs 5:30 Seven News 6:00 House Rules 7:10 Sunday Night 8:10 A Place To Call Home 9:10 Mr Selfridge 10:10 Kath & Kim 11:10 Royal Pains: Off Season Greetings (Part 1) - With one week to go until Evan and Paige’s big day, the Hamptons are a winter wonderland (albeit a snowless one) and wedding preparations are in full swing. But before they can say their vows, the lovebirds have to celebrate something else: their last officially single days.

12:10 Harry’s Practice 12:35 Special: Yindi - The Last Koala?

1:30 Home Shopping 2:30 Auction Squad 3:30 Dr Oz 4:30 Sunrise Extra / 5:00 Seven Early News

7:00 World News 1:00 Al Jazeera News 2:00 Speedweek 4:00 FIFA World Cup 2014 Magazine 4:30 Subaru National Road Series 5:00 Subaru World Of Cycling 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Road To The 2014 FIFA World Cup 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Sacred Wonders Of Britain 8:30 The Trials Of Muhammad Ali 10:10 Welcome To Rio 11:10 Giro d’Italia – Stage 15 1:30 Movie: “Don’t Think About It” (M) - At 36 years old, Stefano Nardini is still a punk rock musician. One day as he is in a fix, he decides to leave Rome and to go back to his family in Rimini with the intention of getting in touch with his inner self. But as soon as he is back in the family house, he realises that he is not the only one to be in trouble. And instead of being taken care of as he expected, he sets about taking care of everyone and everything.

3:25 Inside Nature’s Giants 4:35 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize 4:45 Destination Flavour - Japan Bitesize

MONDAY 26

7 CENTRAL

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Backyard Science 10:00 Weird Science 10:20 Get Into Textiles 10:45 Atoms Of Fire 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 ABC News With Ros Childs 1:00 Landline 2:00 Parliament Question Time 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: Brent Connection 6:30 QI: Bible 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Australian Story 8:30 Four Corners 9:20 Media Watch 9:35 Q&A 10:35 Lateline 11:10 The Business 11:35 Changi: Eddie’s Birthday 12:35 Parliament Question Time 1:35 Movie: “Top Hat” (G) 3:15 Movie: “Gay Divorcee” (G) 5:00 Talking Heads: Janine Shepherd 5:30 Eggheads: Brent Connection

5:30 Today 8:30 Global Shop Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 10:30 National Morning News 11:30 The Ellen Degeneres Show 12:30 Movie: “Father’s Day” (M) 2:30 National News Now 3:45 National Afternoon News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 TBA 9:30 Kalgoorlie Cops: Captures the challenges faced by the Kalgoorlie Cops who patrol the ‘largest beat in the world’. You will be introduced to a core team of police officers and will get to know and the love the real people behind the uniforms - the men and women who put their lives on the line every day in Australia’s most notorious outback town.

10:30 Anger Management: Charlie And Kate Battle Over A Patient 11:00 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 12:00 Extra 12:30 The Baron 1:30 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News 5:00 Today

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Class Warfare 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:30 Home And Away - Did Andy shoot at the Braxton house? Kyle makes a heartbreaking request for Phoebe’s safety and Hannah takes control of her life.

7:00 House Rules 8:45 Revenge 9:45 Grey’s Anatomy 10:40 Talking Footy 11:40 Suits: Know When To Fold ‘Em - Harvey takes to the card table when he is approached with a sham lawsuit designed to help dig an adversary out of a gambling debt. Meanwhile, Jessica gets a visit from an old partner.

12:30 Home Shopping 3:00 Sons & Daughters 3:30 NBC Today 4:30 Sunrise Extra / 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 The Forgotten Australians 2:05 First Australians 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5:00 Living Black 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 6:30 SBS World News 7:35 Mythbusters: Star Wars Special 8:35 Vikings: The Lord’s Prayer 9:30 RocKwiz - Colleen Hewett, Mikelangelo & Megan Washington 10:30 SBS World News Late 11:00 The World Game 11:30 Subaru National Road Series 12:00 Clown: Caroe’s Christening 12:30 Clown: The Girl From Irma 1:30 Shorts On Screen: Perfect Drug 1:35 Movie: “Secret Sunshine” (M) - In Korean, English Subtitles.

4:10 One Man And His Campervan 4:40 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Bitesize 4:50 Destination Flavour - Japan Bitesize

TUESDAY 27

IMPARJA

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 Behind The News 10:25 Neue Freunde 10:30 Jung In Europa 10:40 La Mappa Misteriosa 10:50 A Table! 11:00 Four Corners 11:45 Media Watch 12:00 ABC News With Ros Childs 1:00 Q&A 2:00 Parliament Question Time 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: The Poker Saints 6:30 QI: Bears 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Foreign Correspondent 8:30 Two Men In China: Chengdu 9:30 At The Movies 10:00 War Paint: The World Of According To George Gittoes 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:25 Four Corners 12:20 Media Watch 12:35 Parliament Question Time 1:35 Movie: “Macao” (PG) 3:30 Rugby Union: Shute Shield / 5:30 Eggheads: The Poker Saints

5:30 Today 8:30 Global Shop Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 10:30 National Morning News 11:30 The Ellen Degeneres Show 12:30 Movie: “Cahill United States Marshal” (M) - The Duke’s job as a U.S. Marshall is complicated by the fact that several of his sons decide to turn to a life of crime.

2:30 National News Now 3:45 National Afternoon News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 TBA 10:00 Two And A Half Men: Welcome To Alancrest 10:30 Two And A Half Men: Grab A Feather And Get In Line 11:00 20/20 12:00 Extra - Catch up on all the latest in Hollywood’s current affairs as we find out what the world’s hottest stars have been up to this week.

12:30 Impractical Jokers - Pick A Loser - Four prank-loving friends compete in extremely awkward social experiments in this hiddencamera series, tricking real life people into falling for their hilarious pranks.

1:00 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News / 5:00 Today

5:30 Sunrise 8:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie: “A Mind To Kill: Black Silence” (M) - In the midst of a strike, Detective Bain and his team investigate the murder of a local prostitute.

With all the evidence linked to the strike, Bain realises the suspect is a childhood friend. 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:30 Home And Away - Sensing the danger at the Braxtons, Bianca makes Heath a generous offer. Kyle’s heartfelt appeal helps Phoebe make an impossible decision and Zac faces the damage his drinking has caused the family.

7:00 TBA 11:30 Dr Oz: Dr. Oz’s Ultimate Swimsuit Slimdown - Get answers to your health questions from Dr Oz and other leading doctors, hospitals, associations and authors.

12:30 Home Shopping 3:30 NBC Today 4:30 Sunrise Extra 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Movie: “Wolf” (PG) 2:55 Life Is Beautiful 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 Food Safari - Spanish Safari 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Secrets Of The Manor House 8:30 Insight 9:30 Dateline 10:30 SBS World News Late 11:00 Giro d’Italia - Stage 16 1:30 East West 101: Another Life 2:35 THe Circuit: Swings And Roundabouts 3:40 Egypt’s Revolution: The End Of A Dictator - The 18-day Egyptian revolution was started by its youth, but drew in all layers of Egypt’s fractured society, across age, class and religious divide.

As the fear barrier was broken, destinies were transformed by the tumultuous events. This film offers an examination of the demise of the Mubarak regime through the eyes of people whose lives were, until now, defined by it.

4:35 Short: Poppy

WEDNESDAY 28

ABC

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 ABC News Mornings 10:00 My Place 10:25 Homemade History 10:30 The Prime Ministers’ National Treasures 10:45 Behind The News Specials 11:00 One Plus One 11:30 Foreign Correspondent 12:00 ABC News With Ros Childs 12:30 National Press Club Address 1:30 Vet School 2:00 Parliament Question Time 3:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 3:30 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 5:00 ABC News: Early Edition 5:30 The Drum 6:00 Eggheads: College Graduates 6:30 QI: Beavers 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 QI: I-Spy 8:30 Spicks & Specks 9:00 Jonah From Tonga 9:30 Upper Middle Bogan: Your Roots Are Showing 10:00 United States Of Tara: The Full F*@$ You Finger 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:30 Hustle 12:30 Parliament Question Time 1:30 Don’t Panic: Surviving Extremes 2:30 Football: VFL: Round 8: Werribee Vs Richmond / 5:30 Eggheads

5:30 Today 8:30 Global Shop Direct 9:30 Brand Developers 10:30 National Morning News 11:30 The Ellen Degeneres Show 12:30 Movie: “Caddyshack” (M) - A caddy, who works at a staid country club, sets out to win the club’s scholarship in a big golfing tournament, and so begins a riotous round of fairway foolishness. The judge plays to win but his niece has her mind set on scoring her own way. 2:30 National News Now 3:45 National Afternoon News 5:00 Hot Seat 5:30 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 State Of Origin: Queensland Vs New South Wales - Game 1 10:00 TBA 10:30 Supersize: I Lost Weight But Lost My Husband - In a society obsessed with being thin, its almost a given that losing weight will lead to health, sometimes wealth and definitely happiness. But is this all a lie?

11:30 The AFL Footy Show 1:30 Brand Developers 3:00 Good Morning America 4:30 National Early Morning News / 5:00 Today

5:30 Sunrise 9:30 The Morning Show 11:00 Seven Morning News 11:30 Movie - “Helen West: A Clear Conscience” Helen West is frustrated at with her boss’ attitude to the battered women’s cases she has been prosecuting.

Meanwhile, Chief Supt. Bailey looks for the real killer of a former professional boxer. 1:30 The Daily Edition 2:30 The Chase 3:30 Seven News At 4 4:30 Deal Or No Deal 5:00 Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Seven News 6:30 Home And Away - Bianca’s support causes Heath to miss her more than ever. Maddy’s party causes problems with Josh and a romance could be in the air for Evelyn and Spencer.

7:00 TBA 8:00 TBA 10:30 Border Security - Australia’s Front Line 11:00 The Force - Behind The Line 11:30 TBA 12:30 Home Shopping 3:00 Sons And Daughters 3:30 NBC Today 4:30 Sunrise Extra 5:00 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Insight 2:00 Dateline 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Giro d’Italia 2014 Daily Highlights 6:00 My Family Feast - The Balinese 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Walking Through History: Wigan Pier 8:30 One Born Every Minute - What Happened Next?

9:30 The Bridge 10:35 SBS World News Late 11:05 Giro d’Italia - Stage 17 1:30 Movie: “The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life” (M) - In French.

Five random days in the lives of a French family, spread out over twelve years, paint a telling picture of the ups and downs of human relationships in this comedy-drama from France.

3:35 Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die - In a frank and personal documentary, author Sir Terry Pratchett considers how he might choose to end his life. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2008, Terry wants to know whether he might be able to end his life before his disease takes over.

4:45 ADbc / 4:55 Destination Flavour - Japan Bitesize

16 – Arafura Times

21 - 27 May 2014

CROSSWORD No. 199

SUDOKU No. 199

Your  Lucky 

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ARIES (March 21st - April 20th) A fast response may help to get you out of a crisis: the most obvious answer may not be the right one, however! You will need to consider the situation carefully before you react. Romance. After a period where your love-life has suffered you will find your personal life is generally getting back to where you want it to be.

TAURUS (April 21st - May 21st) Try to get other members of the family to do their share of work around the house.

It is important for everyone to be treated fairly. Romance. A new relationship will soon become much more lively. It feels like it’s been a long time since you had real fun: you haven’t got long to wait!

GEMINI (May 22nd - June 21st)

FOR KIDS

You have a great deal of extra energy at the moment. If you can’t find an outlet for this you will get frustrated, however. You may want to consider some voluntary work, a part-time job or a new social activity. Romance.

You won’t be in a very romantic mood this week.

Don’t worry: you have other priorities at the moment.

CANCER (June 22nd - July 23rd) This will be a very good time for trying out new ideas. A suggestion which seems strange will actually be very practical.

Romance. You may feel your partner or someone else close to you is neglecting your feelings. Try not to get upset about this: they don’t mean to.

LEO (July 24th - August 23rd) An honest approach will help you to come to terms with recent events. If you can accept the situation, you will be able to remedy it. Romance. A social gathering will give you the chance to come into contact with some interesting new faces. Someone there is more interested in you than you realise.

VIRGO (August 24th - September 23rd) An exciting dream will help to give you an insight into future events. Romance.

You will be unstoppable this week! You can do and say the right things to move your romantic life to a different level. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by.

FINDWORD No. 199

LIBRA (September 24th - October 23rd)

A LAUGH WITH LOTSA

This will be an excellent time for any group activities. Romance. The Moon/ Vesta Midpoint presently in your sign should help you to be a little more sympathetic to your partner’s excuses. Try to spend some quality time together this week.

SCORPIO (October 24th - November 22nd) Don’t allow yourself to take the blame for a situation that you could not have foreseen. Romance. Try to find a balance between your own needs and those of your partner. This may require a degree of compromise and good communication.

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MUDDY RIVER

You will be very spiritually aware at the moment. This would be a good time to gain a deeper understanding of the people around you. Romance. Be careful not to get too carried away in fantasy. A plan which you made recently will not develop in the way you had hoped.

CAPRICORN (December 22nd - January 20th) Your relationship with a neighbour may soon be in the spotlight: try to find a compromise that pleases both parties.

Romance. You will be surprised how accurately you can work out what your partner is thinking. You will be able to use this in a positive way towards the end of the week.

AQUARIUS (January 21st - February 19th)

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Love is when the other person’s happiness is

more important than your own.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

SOLUTIONS No. 199

A friend whom you have trusted to be honest will not let you down. You may not like what they have to say, however.

You need to accept this and move on. Romance. You will receive an important message in a dream. If you understand the dream completely the message should be clear. You will need to spend some time thinking about what you should do next in your love-life this week.

PISCES (February 20th - March 20th) Try to avoid doing anything which requires a large amount of discipline. You will be a little self-indulgent this week, and will only be able to stick at something if you enjoy it. Try to put off anything important for the time being. Romance. A letter will arrive from someone that you have not heard from for a very long time. A very personal piece of news may surprise you: this may have a positive effect on your romantic life.

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Position Vacant - Youth Worker Mentor - Full Time - Yirrkala Level 4, Step 1 - $60,503.99 gross per annum The Youth Worker Mentor will contribute to the overall Youth Sport and Recreation Program by providing leadership and assistance to the Youth Program, through administration, planning and delivery of youth programs, to support the strategic direction of EARC including: Key Responsibilities: 1. Co-ordinate, develop, deliver and support the ongoing operation of Youth, Sport and Recreation programs, through a capacity building approach with a focus on Youth Programs including diversionary activities and case management.

2. Facilitate the effective planning and delivery of services and programs that address the specific needs of youth in the community, ensuring a balance of meaningful activities that are legally and culturally appropriate; and include activities and experiences to build self esteem and confidence of young Indigenous people in their personal development, positive adolescent health and education, training and employment and valued cultural connections.

3. Actively mentor and support the youth team, ensuring an effective program is being delivered. Adopt a community development approach to up skill staff and improve capacity of individuals and youth team.

4. Assist in the identification and effective case management of Indigenous youth at risk of self harm; sexual assault; domestic violence; neglect; bullying; drug and other volatile substance misuse; or participation in other criminal behaviour. Assist in the referral of young Indigenous people at risk, to appropriate agencies to support them with their identified problems.

5. Assist in building the capacity of the community to support Indigenous youth through consultation with community stakeholders; to improve awareness of the needs of Indigenous youth and identify opportunities to support these young people.

6. Assist the overall Youth, Sport and Recreation program by working collaboratively with the Sport and Recreation team and other stakeholders in identifying and addressing common goals, aims and issues. Liaise and network effectively and in a collaborative manner with other EARC programs and external agencies.

7. Work effectively and in a culturally sensitive manner as an individual and within the Youth Services team.

8. Maintain confidentiality and privacy of all relevant information within relevant legislation and guidelines whilst at the same time adhering to mandatory reporting requirements.

9. Display a positive influence in the community and maintain a safe working environment through adherence to all health and safety policies and relevant legislation and guidelines.

10. Assist and support the Regional Youth Sport and Recreation Manager where required.

Please email your resume and cover letter to hr@eastarnhem.nt.gov.au.

For more information please contact Brett Fragiacomo 0458 765 310.

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Auskick and Junior AFL starts in Nhulunbuy LAST Thursday saw Auskick and junior football kick off at Hindle Oval.

Auskick is predominately for 5-12 years olds and teaches children the fundamentals of Australian Rules Football.

Participants will learn proper handballing, kicking and marking techniques, and will get to put their new skills to work in a game at the end of every session.

Auskick starts at 4pm every Thursday and runs

NAIDOC Award noms now open

Golf scores THE Gove Country Golf Club - or Golfy, as it is more commonly known - results for the week ending May 10 and 17.

For the week ending May 10: Chook runL A. Scott (22 points) and B. Small (17) and for the week ending May 17 G. Gomez (20) and P. Kearney (2).

Beer run in the week ending May 10, ED Henderson (22) and B. Barrett (21), and for the week ending May 17, C. Borrett (22), E. Henderson (19) and P. Kearney (18).

For last Saturday’s Stableford competition M. Oliveira (39), P. Marr (37), R. Thompson (36), D. Neenan (36), A. Gould (34), G. Gomez (34) and A. McLoughlin (33).

Next Week’s event is 18-hole stroke.

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the Year and Sportsperson of the Year.

National NAIDOC Committee co-chairs Anne Martin and Benjamin Mitchell are calling on communities around the country to nominate inspirational leaders, talented sportspeople, creative artists, academics and apprentices, community members, elders and environmentalists.

“Being nominated for a National NAIDOC Award is a real honour and it’s a wonderful opportunity to showcase all of our successful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” Mr Mitchell said.

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nightly roster at Yirrkala (4pm) and Hindle Oval (3.30pm), a bus will leave from Nhulunbuy High School at 3.30pm for Yirrkala training sessions.

Parent and community support has so far been great, and these programs would not be able to run without the help given.

All kids are welcome to come down on Thursdays for a game, and Auskick will be accepting sign-ons for the next week.

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The key responsibilities include: • Promote a safe working environment while complying with Rio Tinto Alcan Gove Operations HSE standards and procedures.

• In conjunction with the Mine Operations Coordinator and Shift Supervisor, plan and oversee daily mining support tasks.

• Participate in safety initiatives, hazard identification, conduct daily tool box meetings and supervise pre-start activities.

• Ensure support crew are fully trained and competent to operate all machinery safely.

• Daily transportation of crew members to and from place of residence to mine site.

Charles Darwin University’s Office of Indigenous Academic Support (OIAS) is currently seeking suitably qualified tutors in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Higher Education (HE) disciplines to join the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS).

You will tutor an individual student or a group of students in the course/s they are studying.

Your qualification/s must align with the disciplines in which you wish to tutor.

The successful applicant will demonstrate the following: • Current HR Class Drivers Licence.

• Mobile plant operating experience.

• Civil works machinery tickets (backhoe, loader, grader, tractor, tip truck).

• Equipment maintenance experience.

• A background of working and training local indigenous people in operational roles.

• Good interpersonal and multi-cultural communication skills.

• Attention to detail.

• Ability to lead by example.

You can earn $60.00 per hour (individual undergraduate tutoring) and $50.00 per hour (individual VET tutoring).

For further information on tutoring guidelines, please contact: Angela David - Coordinator Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme T: 08 8946 7413 E: angela.david@cdu.edu.au OR for the East Arnhem Region: Ben Jones Nhulunbuy Campus T: 08 8986 8608 / 0477 331 955 E: ben.jones@cdu.edu.au

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NOMINATIONS for the National Aboriginal and To r r e s S t r a i t Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week Awards are now open.

N A I D O C We e k i s h e l d in the first full week of July, 6-13. The annual NAIDOC Awards recognise the outstanding contributions that Indigenous Australians make to improve the lives of Indigenous people in their communities and beyond, or to promote Indigenous issues in the wider community, or the excellence they’ve shown in their chosen field.

There are 10 categories to choose from: Lifetime Achievement Award, Person of the Year, Female Elder of the Year, Male Elder of the Year, Caring for Country Award, Youth of the Year, Artist of the Year, Scholar of the Year, Apprentice of

for about one hour.

Two junior competitions also have started on Thursday evenings, with under 12s starting at 5pm and U15s starting at 6.30pm.

These competitions are jointly run by Yirrkala Clontarf and AFLNT. They focus on providing a pathway for young players into senior AFL, and also on improving school attendance.

Training is held every Monday night on a fort-

RECEPTIONIST PART-TIME POSITION L.J. Hooker Nhulunbuy is seeking the services of a receptionist. We refer to this position as the Director of 1st Impressions and see this being a critical position within our company.

Work hours will be Mon-Fri 8:30am to 1:30pm

The VET ADMIN SUPPORT provides a high level of administrative skills and support to the RTO Manager in the Registered Training Organisation (RTO).

Key Responsibilities:• Maintain and update student enrolments, records and the VET database • Design and produce reports and resources as required by RTO Manager and Principal.

• Research, maintain, order and purchase (as per procurement process) resources.

• Assist in co-ordinating the end of year VET Presentation.

• Enter information and maintain VET entries on the NHS website.

The success applicant must have:• High level of administration skills (eg Microsoft Word, Excel, email and internet) and communication.

• Ability to work both independently and in a team.

• Ability to liaise with industry, staff and students.

• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.

• Current Working with Children Card.

Please send cover letter and resume to rhoda.shine@ntschools.net Applications close 28 May 2014.

For more information Contact Rhoda Shine, Office Manager 8987 0822 rhoda.shine@ntschools.net

The successful applicant will: • Have a pleasant & exceptional telephone manner • Excellent customer service • Have a basic level of Microsoft Word & Excel • Be punctual, reliable and courteous • Pay particular attention to detail and accuracy • Be prepared to sign a confidentiality agreement and maintain the strictest confidence Duties will include: Answering telephone calls, receipting rent, preparing tenancy agreements, creating work orders in Ellipse, random phone maintenance audits to tenants, managing key register book, after hours maintenance calls, assisting other staff as required, programming annual inspections and vacating inspections.

Please fax your CV to L.J. Hooker Nhulunbuy on 8987 8107 or deliver to the office. For more information phone Heather Wegener on 8987 8103 or email Heather.Wegener@pacificaluminium.com.au.

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Nhulunbuy rallies to its clubs

By ANDREW HARRISON WITH Nhulunbuy in transition with a lot of long-term club volunteers leaving the town, those members who remain moving into positions at its various sporting and cultural groups ready shoulder new responsibilities and roles.

The Gove Community Action Committee sporting and leisuretime co-ordinator DonnaMarie Grieve (right) said so far there has been a good response from groups.

Some groups have changed their constitutions to accommodate quarterly and half-yearly memberships fees to guarantee some funds coming in, and smaller quorums to suit diminished participation.

And others have arrange their resources, in case of liquidation, that they can be inherited by other or future groups, such as schools. And some have considered the possibility of merging clubs if synergies can be found.

“It shows the degree of resilience of the

townsfolk and a sense of ownership of their clubs through their fund-raising or gaining grant money,” said Nhulunbuy MLA Lyn Walker.

“People are exploring all avenues to keep the clubs going.”

“They are an important part of the social fabric of the community and an important part of the lives of children and families.”

Town Administrator Shawn Kinder said it was an Australian trait that “when the chips are down, people step up and work for a solution”.

“It was awesome to see

club people keen to secure their clubs now and for the future.”

Netball’s Helen Clarke said while there were enough players for a junior netball competition and it would keep its development programme going, the deft of players may hamper a senior competition.

The senior competition will be less structured and flexible enough to support a round-robin competition of teams forming from scratch before matches, she said.

The Bowls Association was able fill most of its

office bearer position to maintain the social aspect of the club play, said Lisa Pullen.

The association will continue to play an annual competition with Darwinites for the Carpentaria Cup, a set of buffalo horns, which is currently held by the Darwinites, she said.

The Arafura Dance A s s o c i a t i o n ’s M a r i a Slattter said the group had more than 20 stage parents attend its annual meeting last week, which voted to drop it quorum to six members.

“All (office bearer)

CRISIS ACCOMMODATION GOVE Final Call for Annual General Meeting 2014 This is the final attempt at forming a committee for Crisis Accommodation Gove.

Crisis Accommodation Gove Inc (CAG) will be having a special AGM on Thursday, May 29 at 7.30pm at 24 Wuyal Road.

CAG is a not for profit organisation with sound management and staff.

CAG needs to appoint a new committee to ensure the ongoing provision of essential searches to Gove and surrounding communities.

CAG is the only Domestic Violence Shelter for Women and Children in the East Arnhem Region.

CAG will have to cease operations if a full committee is not reached.

The position requires only a small amount of your time to attend structured and organised committee meetings once a month.

If you are interested but unable to attend contact details are below.

All positions previously held will be declared vacant.

Please support the vulnerable members of our community by joining the committee and ensuring this essential service remains ongoing.

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positions were filled,” she wrote. “It wasn’t easy, but the result was fantastic.”

“The members that were there were all passionate about the Dance Association going ahead. We have a strong committee and general members.”

The community’s response to the association’s call to arms was “more than being Australian”.

“It’s being a Gove-ite,” Ms Slatter said.

“Our tight-knit community always bands together when things get tough.”

The group’s series of concert has been locked in to June 13-15, but now it was focusing on filling its roster for volunteers for that concert, she said.

“Tickets will not go on sale until we have all the positions filled for the roster,” she said.

The Gove AFL’s Mick Montague said: “We are in a transitional stage at the moment with the curtail of the mine, Saints Football Club, which is one of the oldest and most structured in the league has withdrawn its team.

“They also had an input into umpiring and administration of the league so we are feeling the effects of that this year,” he said.

“Player numbers are fair at the moment and most teams have finalised their playing list for the year.

“Having enough umpires and scorers etc. has been hard and is usually left up to the same people each week, I am hoping to recruit and train up as many local officials as I can.

“As far as I know the league hasn’t had boundary umpires so that is another area we are

looking to address.”

“Although the comp has downsized from last year, there is still a high calibre of skill and experience across all the teams.”

“Quite a few players from the region have played in strong competitions down south, in Western Australia or South Australia, and a few players have represented the Territory for NT Thunder and at the highest level in AFL.” “It is hoped that the continued development of the Junior leagues will benefit the league in the years to come.”

The Gove Country Golf club faces a shortterm membership fall after the alumina refinery closure as 80 per cent of its paid members are Rio Tinto employees, said Ms Grieve.

But most really won’t feel the changes until next year when they experience dropping memberships and tighter funds, Ms Grieve said.

With many first timers coming forward, many are finding the roles bewildering.

The NT Sport and Recreation plan to come to Nhulunbuy in early June to run workshops for sporting and cultural groups to address problems they may face, or to educate “newbies” on meeting procedure and how to organise events such as fund-raising and sponsorships.

If you are interested or can suggest other sessions you may think would be of interest, contact Donna-Marie Grieve, the Sports Arts and Leisure co-ordinator for the Gove Community Advisory Group on 0438175013 or at big.carpentry@ bigpond.com.

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Community radio spared Nhulunbuy takes part in National Simultaneous Storytime activity COMMUNITY broadcasting has been spared after the Federal Budget revealed the Government will continue funding vital community broadcasting programs.

Community radio and TV supporters from across the nation launched a large-scale campaign during the week to safeguard community broadcasting from funding cuts, after the Commission of Audit’s recommendation that the funding be scrapped.

Community Broadcasting Association of Australia President Adrian Basso said last Wednesday in a media release the announcement was a welcomed relief for the country’s 360-plus community stations, 22,000 volunteers and 5.2 million listeners.

“This is a fantastic outcome for community radio and TV stations across the country. There are going to be millions of listeners and volunteers breathing a big sigh of relief ,” Mr Basso said.

“Community stations run on the smell of an oily rag - if the government had cut funding, as modest as the funding is, it could have spelt the end of many vital community radio services,” he said.

Mr Basso said it is fantastic the

Federal Government has decided to continue a long tradition of bipartisan support for community broadcasting.

“The Federal Government has tonight shown that it knows how important community radio and TV stations are for communities right across the country,” he said.

“We are hopeful that this means the government is committed to supporting community broadcasting into the future,” Mr Basso said.

“Community radio and TV stations deserve to know that they are secure not just in the short-term, but also in the longer term.”

“For local communities, community broadcasting is vital.”

Mr Basso said: “It plays a crucial role in providing a voice for communities that aren’t adequately serviced by other broadcasting sectors including Indigenous Australians, ethnic communities, the print and vision impaired, young people, seniors and Australian musicians across all genres.

“The community broadcasting sector is a smart investment: for every dollar the government puts in, the social outcome is huge,” he said.

“It’s great that the government has recognised that.”

Beards prove a hair-raisingly good formula

NHULUNBUY Community Library is taking part in the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) as it is celebrated in schools, public libraries, kindergartens, childcare centres, bookshops and homes across the nation.

This year, more than 410,000 children at more than 2,300 locations will have Ursula Dubosarsky’s Too Many Elephants in this House (Penguin) read to them at 11am, today (Wednesday).

It’s all about encouraging a passion for books - and the powerful art of storytelling.

National Simultaneous Storytime was launched in 2000.

Participation rates have increased every year since, with 2014 promis-

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ing to be the biggest year ever.

“The 14th National Simultaneous Storytime is an important campaign that encourages more young Australians to read and enjoy books, turning them into lifelong readers,” said ALIA president Damian Lodge.

“This campaign highlights the important role libraries play in promoting literacy in communities around Australia,” he said.

This year’s highlights include a storytime session at the Ku-ring-gai Library with Mrs Margie Abbott, the Manly Sea Eagles reading at the Taronga Zoo, the Melbourne Storm at the Melbourne Zoo and readings at libraries by the Cronulla Sharks, the Canberra Raiders, the Canterbury Bulldogs, the Gold Coast Titans, the Melbourne Storm

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The Beard Album by The Beards Review by: ANGELA MADDEN YOU probably won’t believe me, but Novelty-Hair-Rockers ‘The Beards’ have just released their fourth album all about beards. Yes indeed, one topic yielding four albums.

Their latest offering is simply titled The Beard Album and was released on May 9.

The album name may be straight-forward but the CD design is not; the album cover appears to be made entirely out of furry (read: fake beard) fabric.

Quite an extraordinary, and peculiar, musical achievement to have taken a concept-band as far as these guys have managed. And they show no sign of stopping these beardy hits.

For those who haven’t come across this Aussie group before, the band website clarifies as such: “The concept is fairly simple - a rock band that exclusively perform songs about just one subject Beards.”

The Beards are riding the current wave of facial-hair popularity, and appear to be having the time of their lives in the process. Their music is a truck-load of fun, and the live shows hilarious and rollickingly enjoyable.

With previous album titles such as Having a beard is the new not having a beard and tracks such as If your dad doesn’t have a beard you’ve got two mums

Day this band are masters of generating a laugh through music.

Make no mistake, The Beards can also play their instruments very well, and in fact come across as a tight rock-group (when you have time to take notice between laughter). Most songs are introduced by the same enthusiastic comment of “Here’s another song about beards!”

Hopefully you can listen-in to our Gove FM interview with The Beards, which was recorded live at BluesFest 2014. I am going to leave it unedited, so that you can catch eight minutes of us chatting, exclusively and ridiculously, about beards. Oh, and occasionally about music.

With stage-names such as ‘Facey McStubblington’ I guess I should have expected nothing less from these new-age novelty-rock heroes.

Each week we feature an album by an Australian artist or group.

Listen out as we play a track from the feature album Monday to Friday this week, just prior to the midday news.

A full interview between Station Manager Ange, Station Volunteer Matt and all four members of The Beards will be on-air 2pm, Wednesday, May 21, on 106.9 Gove FM.

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Church services

Sacred Heart Catholic Church Vigil Saturday 6.00pm, Sunday Service 8.30am OASIS Christian Assembly Pastor Phil Sampson – Ph: 8987 1522 / 8987 1369

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and the Parramatta Eels. The book’s author, Ursula Dubosarsky, will join illustrator Andrew Joyner for a reading at Sydney’s Customs House Library.

Jane Kennedy, Australian actress and producer, has created a unique digital video reading of the book for Australia’s new online storytelling resource Story Box Library - a first for the NSS 2014 program and one that puts participation in the event within the reach of isolated Australian schoolchildren in even the most remote locations.

This year, ALIA have also partnered with SBS to bring National Simultaneous Storytime to more Australians than ever before, creating audio book versions of Too Many Elephants in this House in 13 languages other than English.

Seventh-Day Adventist Church Ph: 8987 2375 / 0419 465 045 Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga Hala Tupou – Ph: 8987 3553 Nhulunbuy Baptist Church Sundays 9.30am at Town Hall – Ph: 8987 1256 Uniting Church: Sunday Service 9.30am Hazel Trudgen – Ph: 8987 3545 Mobile 0413 536 877 Forward in Faith Ministries Sunday: 10am – 12.30pm. Endeavour Room at the Captain Cook Community Centre. Ph: 0434 059611 or 8987 8268.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Brother Forbes 0428 767 616 – Sunday 10am.

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Email your classifieds thru to ads@ arafuratimes. com.au or call Bec on 1300 0880 00

Mean sea level pressure Max: 1014.5 hPa on Monday Min: 1008.6 hPa on Wednesday Averages for the month of May Max temp: 29.8 Min temp: 22.6 Rainfall: 89.8mm

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Jaedon, 10, takes on James Trustum one-on-one at Gunyanjara (Ski Beach).

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Gunyanjara (Ski Beach) kids try to outsmart James Trustum.

SYDNEY Kings basketballer James Trustum recently spent 10-days in East Arnhem Land promoting the sport among the region’s kids.

Primarily the idea was to get kids involved in a healthy lifestyle activity any kind of activity - the importance of team work, learning from each other and “having a go”, not to steal them from their love of AFL. Guard Trustum began his sporting life playing soccer, but, when the children of his godmother introduced him to basketball, he was hooked.

“When I was about 12, I had to choose between rep. soccer and club basJames Trustum interviews Mitwatj Health’s Ziggy Fatnowna.

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If you want to sponsor the event in anyway, then please contact the organisers on the above email address as well.

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James Trustum and Kings assistant coach Tim Hudson at Yirrkala.

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ketball,” Trustum, who described himself as one of the sports’ little guys, said.

“I pleaded with mum to let me play basketball, and I have ever since.”

Within a year of making the switch, Trustum was representing the NSW Central Coast and has never looked back.

“Look where I am now, I couldn’t be happier.”

Engaging with the kids by playing with them and just hanging out with them, Trustum was impressed with raw talent he found among Arnhem Land’s kids.

Miwatj Healthy lifestyle program co-ordinator Hayden Rickard said basketball was gaining in popularity in Arnhem Land, even rivaling AFL in some instances, and Trustum’s visit gave players to chance to gain from his professional coaching and encouragement.

For Trustum, the mission had a personal side of self-discovery.

“Both my parents were adopted. My Aboriginal heritage comes from my mother’s side, but my

Indigenous connection is not the driving reason for making the trip.”

“It’s never been my background, but I’ve been brought up to help and care for others and that is the main reason I’m doing this.”

Trustum had grown up unaware of his Aboriginal heritage until his mother decided to track down her birth parents.

“Dad has never been interested in finding his birth parents, but mum was and discovered her mother had also been adopted.

“She also found out she had sisters and brothers, so there’s this extended family of Indigenous Australians that she never knew we had.”

Trustum said he didn’t feel he lacked not knowing his true origins.

“Nothing was missing in my life,” he told the Arafura Times.

“I just found out later in life.”

The NT trip was be the first time Trustum has been outside NSW, bar a short cruise to Queensland, and the thought of working with children in remote areas was daunting.

He had no idea what to expect but has been stuck by the region’s wildlife, beauty and serenity.

Sydney Kings assistant coach Tim Hudson joined Trustum on the trip and believes it will be an invaluable experience for the young player.

“This is going to have a bigger impact on James than he realises,” said Hudson.

“He’s a very quiet and humble kid and this will be a special experience for him,” he said.

“It’s been a culture shock for me, for sure,” Trustum said.

“Despite my Aboriginal heritage, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I’m hoping they get more out of it than me.”

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Gopu and provided plenty of rebounds after intercepting Baywara kicks.

Although the game was beyond them, Baywara kept fighting and started to find a way to goals, with Lester Gurruwiwi and Dion Gurruwiwi finding space.

GOPU 6.1 37 - 10.3 63 - 13.9 87 - 14.12 96 d BAYWARA 0.0 0 - 1.0 6 - 2.0 12 - 7.2 44 In Round 2, Gapuwiyak last Saturday had a win in its first game of the year, hosting Gopu at Gapuwiyak oval. Gapuwiyak (16.9 105) was triumphant, defeating Gopu (12.16 88).

Djarrak last Saturday defeated Baywara at Ski Beach oval. Scores were not provided.

Nguykal had a bye in the five-team comp.

This week, in round three matches Djarrak is scheduled to take on Gapuwiyak this Saturday at Hindel Oval at 2pm, and Baywara will play Nguykal at 4pm, at the same venue.

This week, Gopu has the bye.

1. Coprolites are a kind of trace fossil. What do they form from?

2. Is the Sun hotter at the visible surface or the core?

3. How many species of snake are there in Australia?

4. Which force makes water droplets fall?

5. Which acid is found in the stomach? a) Nitric acid, b) Aqua regia or c) Hydrochloric acid?

1. Coprolites are fossilized animal droppings. 2. The Sun is hotter in the core, where it is 15 million degrees Celsius compared to only 5500 degrees Celsius at the visible surface. 3. Australia has approximately 140 species of land snake and 32 species of sea snake. 4.

Gravity makes water droplets fall. 5. Hydrochloric acid is the type of acid found in your stomach.

THE 2014 Gove AFL competition is underway in earnest with two rounds played.

The teams have pulled all stops with points now at stake.

In the first round, on May 10, at Yirrkala Oval, last year’s premiers, Nguykal, took on fellow Yirrkala side Djarrak.

An undermanned Djarrak gave Nguykal an early break, which saw them kick six goals to one by half-time.

Damien Djerrkura provided a strong target up forward and was well-supported by young Boaz Wanambi.

Paul Augusta and Murray Marika also helped with multiple forward entries.

Djarrak made a spirited fight back after half-time kicking the first two goals and winning some ball in the middle through Ishmael Marika, Michael Maymuru, and DJ Marika.

Nguykal then kicked back into gear with Daryl Lacey providing first touch to Kane Atkinson in the middle and the Nguykal forward line too strong to contain. Nguykal ran out the game to win by 11 goals.

NGUYKAL 3.1 19 - 6.3 39 - 11.4 70 - 15.8 98 d DJARRAK 1.1 7 - 1.2 8 - 4.5 29 - 4.5 29 In the second round-one game Gopu took on Baywara.

Gopu jumped out of the blocks early kicking six goals to zero in the first quarter.

A well-drilled midfield in Cedrick Marika, Quintin Gurruwiwi and Kevin Austral provided the Gopu forwards plenty of opportunities and big Sebbo Munyarryun didn’t waste them.

Donga Maymuru was strong in defence for

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