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 47 Fox St Walgett NSW Australia
Latest news: Dharriwaa Elders Group launched its booklet "Burruguu Dharriwaa-gu - the creation of Narran Lakes" in June 2011
Dharriwaa Elders Group protocols for Welcomes conducted in Walgett were endorsed by the Walgett Gamilaraay Aboriginal Community Working Party in 2011.
Kevin Humphries MP (NSW Member for Barwon) launched the DEG's third cultural exhibition "Memories of Living Outside Walgett" on the 15 December 2010.
Dharriwaa Elders Group presented its Walgett Aboriginal Women's Workshops Report to the Walgett Gamilaraay Aboriginal Community Working Party for endorsement 23 February 2011. The Report publishes the findings of four workshops the DEG held to capture the priorities of Walgett Aboriginal women for inclusion into the Local Implementation Plan for Walgett of COAG's "Closing the Gap" RSD project which the DEG hopes will succeed.
Dharriwaa Elders Group held its AGM 21 December 2011 at which its 2010/11 Annual Report was endorsed. Other DEG reports can be found here.
Check out information about the projects and activities of the Dharriwaa Elders Group
Make a donation to the Dharriwaa Elders Group premises purchase fundraising appeal, direct by credit card, or by other methods described here.
Other news: Previous headlines from our www site include: Kevin Humphries MP launched the Dharriwaa Elders Group cultural exhibition "Memories of Living Outside Walgett" in December 2010;The Dharriwaa Elders Group ("DEG") unveiled in August 2010 an eternal flame and sign that states "The staff and members of the Dharriwaa Elders Group will always honour its founding Speaker George Rose OAM - respected leader and tireless worker for the Walgett community." The DEG's Thelma Thorne made a speech on behalf of the DEG.
The Commonwealth Government cut the DEG's Language Program completely on 30th June 2010, when it also reduced DEG's funding and activities under the Indigenous Heritage Program, extensively. One of the effects has been the necessity to stop publishing our monthly magazine Yundiboo which we have produced since 2000.
The DEG was granted a permit August 2010 by the NSW Government to take into its safekeeping a collection of culturally important items from a private property that were threatened by opal mining. The DEG made a presentation at the September 2010 Australian Rangelands Society Conference in Bourke.
In November 2009 DEG completed an archaeology training survey to prepare reports for the NSW and Commonwealth governments about the extensive and previously unsurveyed extent of places of high Aboriginal cultural value in the area known as "OPA 4".
About the Dharriwaa Elders Group. The Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG) was born 20 November 2000 after working together on projects since 1998. The Group took its name from one of its sacred sites - Narran Lakes - Dharriwaa (common meeting place) and its full members are Aboriginal people over 60 who live in Walgett. The DEG was auspiced by the Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service until 1 July 2005, when it became autonomous. Projects of the Group aim to: - Support Aboriginal elders to resume leadership roles in the community, keeping active and healthy
- promote local Aboriginal cultural knowledge and identity
- develop the Walgett Aboriginal community
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