DEG produces a 16-page A4 colour monthly community magazine - Yundiboo, which has been distributed monthly since January 2001. It is used to promote the aims and work of the DEG’s programs and is distributed to schools, community members on request, corrections facilities, state and national libraries.
The revival of the local Yuwaalaraay / Gamilaraay language is promoted by the Dharriwaa Elders Group, for its life-giving benefits. Yundiboo teaches language and literacy by presenting cultural matters alongside community news, and coverage of the activities of the Dharriwaa Elders Group.
DEG's Aboriginal Language program aims to increase local knowledge of Yuwaalaraay and Gamilaraay languages. Apart from Yundiboo the program incorporates work with the schools, correctional institutions, resource production and supporting the fragile network of Aboriginal language teachers in Walgett.
Yundiboo also enables the Dharriwaa Elders Group to inform the Walgett Aboriginal community of its activities, and of its thinking about issues that affect us here in Walgett.
We are now producing the eighth volume of Yundiboo - the first was produced in 1999 to present the outcomes of the first Dharriwaa Walaay. After producing its second issue after the second Dharriwaa Walaay in 2000, the DEG was so impressed with the magazine as a way of spreading through the community what the Dharriwaa Elders Group were learning and teaching, that the Group decided to make it a regular publication from January 2001.
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