The Red Card continues to be a great benefit for Traditional Owners. The card is loaded with a certain amount of royalty money. It can be used in shops in Arnhem Land and even in Cairns. The card is accepted by major retailers, such as Woolworths and K-mart. Money loaded on the red card cannot be...

The Anindilyakwa Land Council is always striving to help islanders gain the skills and economic power so that they can be in control of their own lives. The latest success is the coxswain certificates gained by long-time Anindilyakwa Land & Sea Ranger Terix Lalara and Umbakumba Ranger Coordinator Peter Reeves. Congratulations have...

Staff at the Anindilyakwa Land Council head office on Groote Eylandt will soon have room to move. A $1.5 million extension to the building will allow better accommodation for 10 new staff spaces and ease overcrowding for the other 140 workers. “At the moment, we’re crammed in,” says land council infrastructure and development...

Work has begun on the Alternative to Custody Centre on Groote. The centre will not have any fencing – but it is being built in a remote spot on the Marble Point Track, which means anyone leaving on foot will have a long way to walk through the bush to reach Umbakumba. “Nobody will be contained,” says Anindilyakwa Land Council...

Groote’s aquaculture project is to take another leap forward when research into oyster farming gets underway soon. It is hoped that a trial to grow blacklip oysters will lead to a lucrative industry. The Anindilyakwa Land Council wants the project to concentrate on high-end seafood, such as oysters, clams, trepang and tropical...

Anindilyakwa Land & Sea Rangers will benefit from the Territory Government’s promise to invest nearly $12 million to continue the Aboriginal ranger program. The funding will ensure about 1000 rangers from 47 ranger groups throughout the Territory are further supported with jobs on-country, and continued access to resources to...

Anindilyakwa Land & Sea Rangers and East Arnhem vets are asking people to not move dogs between communities. The deadly disease E. canis is spreading on the mainland and the Anindilyakwa Land Council doesn’t want it to reach Groote Eylandt. People are being asked not to bring dogs to Groote or Bickerton from Numbulwar. All...

The days have long gone when an entire school class on Groote Eylandt had one pair of football boots between them. A Queensland organisation called Boots for One and All sent a pallet full of boots to the archipelago. Founder Natalie Contogeorge told the ABC: "Sport is not cheap and football boots are not cheap," Ms Contogeorge said. "It...

Singer Emily Wurramarar always calls Groote Eylandt home wherever she goes. She was educated in Brisbane and now lives in Tasmania. But the ARIA-nominated performer says: “Groote will  always be my island home. It's where my grandparents sleep, my ancestors. It’s where my family are. “I always feel that connection no matter...