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DEG asked Jacqui Webster and her team, through our Yuwaya Ngarrali partnership, for a review of national drinking water guidelines to support our future advocacy
Led by DEG Speaker Sandra Suey-Thorne, Elders Councillors and the DEG Leadership Team met with relieving General Manager Walgett Shire Council's Andrew Brown,
We have published two research and policy papers to assist public servants in meeting their Closing the Gap commitments in working with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations:
At the Elders Council meeting 28 March 2025 we reaffirmed DEG’s commitment to the Yuwaya Ngarrali partnership with UNSW. "It was good to have with us this week Ruth McCausland and Andrea Hadaway
Improving food and water security in Walgett has been a long-term priority for the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG) and UNSW Sydney due to the degradation of local rivers and poor
Dharriwaa Elders Group was pleased to host staff of the Natural Resource Access Regulator at its offices in Walgett on the 11th March 2025. We had a wide-ranging and productive meeting
DEG's Elders Council (board of directors) has been going through a process of renewal after losing three long term leaders in 2024. We will always remember and honour them.
Statement from Dharriwaa Elders Group 30 January 2025. So that the Walgett community is kept informed. Dharriwaa Elders Group ("DEG") was made aware of a social media post by an employee of Walgett Shire Council
Dangerously low dissolved oxygen at Walgett.
Meet our Dealing with Fines team - Wendy Rose and Steven Dennis (Bungee). They work with clients to reduce fine debt - through collaborating with the ALS fine debt team, and a "Work Development Order" program of activities either with Dharriwaa Elders Group
Dharriwaa Elders Group has re-launched the Youth Wellbeing Service! We had a four-week activity trial in December 2024 where Walgett young people came along and participated in a range of activities. We would like to thank the families that came along.
The DEG’s Elders Council are working to get the change we need in Walgett and best outcomes for our community.
DEG always works to understand its own progress, and the outcomes our work produces. This Evaluation and Learning Report 2020-2023
Dharriwaa Elders Group (“DEG”) hosted a community event 1 November 2023 to celebrate renewed access to the public road leading to the Barwon River and junction of the Ngamaay and Baawan rivers near the Walgett weir.
Walgett residents are still buying drinking water. River water is unsuitable & Council hasn't made RO system work, so tap water is still high sodium.
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