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On the Lands A
Tjala Arts to get a new centre
In the last eight years, Tjala Arts has grown to twice its size
because of the big demand for work from the artists.
There are also a lot of other Anangu artists who would like
to work there, but there isn’t enough room for them.
THIS NEWSLETTER IS PRODUCED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PREMIER AND CABINET
ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS AND RECONCILIATION DIVISION TO RECOGNISE AND SHOWCASE
THE MANY ACTIVITES OCCURRING ON THE APY LANDS.
newsletter for APY communities
JULY– AUG 2008
Volume 1, Issue 4
So it’s good news that a new Arts Centre will be built in
Amata that will be a much better place to work. This new
Centre will keep out the extreme cold and heat—and
the dust as well. It will be big enough so that artists can
work on much larger pieces and will also be easier to use
Current Tjala Arts building at Amata
by people with disabilities.
It is hoped that the Centre will also be used by the whole community as a place for learning and
providing a place to run other programs.
Both the State and Australian Governments are funding this new building which we hope will be
finished by December 2009.
New Service Co-ordinators for the Lands
Ina Scales, Bob Smith, Mary Anderson and
Sue Wallace
Mary Anderson and Ina Scales have recently joined the
Service Coordination team on the APY Lands. They will
continue to manage Wiru Palyantjaku meetings but will also
work closely with Bob Smith and Mark Jackman to
communicate with communities, APY Lands leaders and
Anangu about the services they get or deliver. They will
regularly visit communities, Alice Springs and Adelaide to
work on improving the programs and services for Anangu.
Mary and Ina will also manage and coordinate interpreting
services. They will help to find suitable interpreters for events
and meetings on the Lands and support Anangu
interpreters. They will also be working with interpreter students, assisting in teaching the course
and supporting interpreters as they take on their first jobs.
Ina lives in Pipalyatjara and Mary in Umuwa. If you need any assistance with programs or
services, please don't hesitate to contact any member of the Service Coordination Team.
Paul Reardon: reardon.paul@dpc.sa.gov.au phone 8226 8869 or mobile 0428 114 571
Eastern communities -
Mary Anderson: anderson.mary@dpc.sa.gov.au phone 8954 8102 (Umuwa) or 0458 676 116
Robert Smith: smith.robert2@saugov.sa.gov.au phone 8954 9186 or mobile 0428 105 965
Western communities -
Ina Scales: scales.ina@dpc.sa.gov.au mobile 0448 889 759
Mark Jackman: jackman.mark@dpc.sa.gov.au phone 8954 9148 or mobile 0428 116 581

P AGE 2
Anangu graduates to help the elderly
Back: (left to right) Sue Light, Derek Thompson, Shannon Tapaya
Front: Carol Kenny, Daisy Roesch, Jane Barnes, Christine Boyer,
Sammy Taylor
V OLUME 1, ISSUE 3
Earlier this year, six aged care
graduates were rewarded for their
efforts at a special ceremony. They all
received their Certificate 3 in Aged
Care training for staff at the Tjilipi
Pampaku Ngura Aged Care Facility in
Pukatja.
The course, supported by Nganampa
Health and TAFE SA, was run one day a
month for 12 months. The training was
very practical. The students learnt by
working at Tjilpi Pampaku Ngura and
doing their study at the same time. “It was really helpful that Pukatja let their staff work around
their study”, said lecturer Sue Light.
“They are really happy with their success. Many of the graduates have already said they want
to learn more in other areas such as disability, interpreting, nursing and literacy and numeracy”,
said Sue. It wasn’t only the students who gained from this experience. The lecturers, Sue Light
and Christine Boyer, learnt about Anangu culture from both the students and the residents. One
day they even went hunting maku!
Nganampa Health Council has scholarships for Anangu who want to enrol in health studies. If you have finished high
school and are interested in working in health care, contact your local Nganampa Health Clinic to apply.
Anangu Backyard—Stories for Children
Tjitji from Mimili, Iwantja, Fregon, Amata, Pukatja,
Kalka, Nyapari, Watarru and Pipalyatjara had their
paintings on display at the Anangu Backyard
exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre during April
and May.
Each APY Lands school did something different. For
example, the Kaltjiti Headmaster invited Kaltjiti Elders
to go to the school and
work with the kids telling
them their traditional stories
in their traditional ways, while teaching them how to paint. At
Nyapari, children worked in pairs with their tjamu kami or kuntili or
kamuru each painting the same story in their own different ways.
As part of the event, four Anangu storytellers sat in a sandpit with
schoolchildren, teachers, parents and other visitors and told their
stories - drawing pictures in the red desert sand from the APY Lands.
The Ernabella school choir also sang one Saturday night and the
audience loved them!
Anangu Backyard was a big success with lots of people attending.
Many pieces of artwork were sold, including three to the South
Australian Art Gallery.
Young Fregon student
painting for the exhibition.

ON THE LANDS A NEWSLETTER FOR APY COMMUNITIES P AGE 3
Making Music
Musicians who are doing the Certificate 2 in Music will
soon perform in concerts in Alice Springs, Port Augusta
and other places as part of the course.
In a joint venture between the Department for
Families and Communities (DFC) and APY TAFE, young
men and women are enrolling in the Certificate 2 in
Music.
The lecturer, Mark Smerdon, says the level of musical
skills among many of the students is already very high.
“Most of them could share the stage with many of the
world’s great musicians”, Mark says.
The course will fill in some of the gaps in their musical
knowledge, like care of equipment, reading chords and sheet music, some music theory and
how to get a job in the music industry.
DFC is supporting this exciting venture by providing the musical equipment, and the Youth
Workers are assisting the musicians by supervising practice sessions and helping with the
administration and legwork.
Classes are currently available in Amata, Indulkana and Mimili. Lots of good sounds coming
from those three communities in the coming months.
Anyone who wants to join a class can ask their Youth Worker or their TAFE Lecturer.
Meet Ethan Dagg
Ethan Dagg has been a youth worker on the APY Lands at
Ernabella for four years. He helped establish one of the first
youth sheds on the Lands which is open five nights a
week.
The youth shed offers a safe place for young people to
get together and play pool, video games, arcade games
and dance at the occasional disco. Ethan also takes
young people on bush hunting trips.
In 2007 Ethan became the first Anangu to be qualified as
a youth worker on the Lands. He earned his Certificate 3 in
youth work through his attendance and hard work in the
training program with Relationships Australia (SA).
Ethan’s first love is dirt bikes. He built a dirt bike track near his home at Ernabella which is now
the base for the APY Racing Team. He helped put together a submission to government to
start a dirt bike program on the Lands. The government agreed to this and this program is now
run by the Department of Families and Communities (DFC).
For the past three years, Ethan has also led a team of riders in the annual Finke Desert Dirt Bike
race (check out the Sports Supplement for Finke photos and report).

Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Division
GPO Box 2343
200 Victoria Square
Adelaide 5000
Phone: (08) 8226 2234
Fax: (08) 8226 2204
Email: APYNewsEditor@saugov.sa.gov.au
DATES
• Football and Softball
Finals at Pukatja
9 August
16 August
23 August
• Court dates:
Sept 1—Amata
Sept 2—Ernabella
Sept 3—Fregon
Sept 4—Indulkana
Sept 5—Marla
• Ernabella Arts 60th
Anniversary
Sept 23 and 24
Note: The Amata PY Ku
phone number has
changed to
(08) 8956 7295.
The fax number remains the
same -
(08) 8954 0189.
Making communities safer
The job of the Police Aboriginal
Liaison Officer is to assist
Community Constables and
Police Officers with crime
prevention and police services.
Ingrid Kenny of Indulkana,
Hamad Ramzan of Ernabella,
Bebe Ramzan of Tjiwuru
Homelands, Umuwa and Rueben
Burton of Amata had ‘Police
Aboriginal Liaison Officer’ training
at Ernabella in March where they
learnt about police procedures
and operations.
Back: Sergeant Mark Seja, Mark
Weaver, Chris Warrior, Joseph Tapaya
Middle: Hamad Ramzan, Ingrid Kenny
and Bebe Ramzan Front: Stacey Connor
Hamad, after further training, is now employed as a Community
Constable working closely with the Police throughout the Lands and
with Joseph Tapaya in police duties for the Pukatja Community.
The officers’ new skills, along with their existing knowledge, will help
to keep people safe and build closer relationships between the
police and their communities. Please support them and help make
your community a safe and happy place to live.
If you are interested in applying for a position as a Community Constable
or Police Aboriginal Liaison Officer please contact
Senior Sergeant Mark Weaver,
Community Constable Coordinator, Adelaide, phone 8207 6120.
Wiltja students in the Cattleman Program
In June, six students from the Wiltja program travelled to Katherine,
NT to learn new skills such as fencing, cattle work, maintaining bores
and bore engines and working with horses.
The two weeks of training with Charles Darwin University involved
long working days and the students worked hard. But in the end the
guys were able to work with horses, fix a fence in under five minutes
and to wrestle ‘weaner’ cattle.
The students, Nathaniel Yai Yai, Bobby Warren, Arnold
Shilling, Walter Tjami, Douglas Finn and Wiltja graduate
Justin Shilling, did a great job and made it back in one
piece – and no-one fell off their horse!
The program promotes personal growth and provides
pathways to help students move from school into work
such as the cattle industry, mining or traineeships. The
good work of the students will be continued through
programs being run in Adelaide for the rest of the year.
Contact Numbers: Umuwa Police 8954 8250 Emergency 000

On the Lands - Sports Supplement
Results
ROUND 3
ROUND 4
ROUND 5
ROUND 6
ROUND 7
Ladder (after Round 7)
Football
Football
Pukatja 7-4 (46) def Amata 5-9 (39)
Mimili 12-12 (84) def Fregon 1-6 (12)
Pipalyatjara-11(77) def Wintjalangu 9-6 (60)
Murputja 10-0 (60) def Indulkana 0-0 (forfeit)
Mimili 31-15 (201) def Wintjalangu 4-2 (26)
Pukatja 22-10 (142) def Indulkana 8-8 (56)
Murputja 18-10 (118) def Fregon 4-11 (35)
Amata 12-5 (77) def Pipalyatjara 11-8(74)
Amata 8-11 (59) def Fregon 5-5 (35)
Murputja 10-5 (65) def Mimili 8-7 (55)
Pukatja 10-13 (73) def Wintjalangu 6-6 (42)
Pipalyatjara 25-6 (156) def Indulkana 4-6 (30)
Mimili 12-4 (76) def Pukatja 7-9 (51)
Indulkana 10-10 (70) def Wintjalangu 6-7 (43)
Amata 6-7 (43) def Murputja 5-4 (34)
Pipalyatjara 11-7 (73) def Fregon 7-4 (46)
Murputja 8-16 (64) def Pipalyatjara 7-9 (63)
Fregon 9-8 (62) def Pukatja 9-2 (56)
Amata 34-10 (214) def Wintjalangu 2-1 (13)
Mimili 12-14 (86) def Indulkana 5-7 (37)
TEAM P W D L FF % PTS
Amata 7 6 0 1 0 64.39 24
Mimili 7 5 0 2 0 67.47 20
Murputja 7 5 0 2 0 62.12 20
Pukatja 7 5 0 2 0 58.64 20
Pipalyatjara 7 3 0 4 0 55.92 12
Indulkana 7 2 0 5 1 34.21 8
Fregon 7 1 0 6 1 37.37 4
Wintjalangu 7 1 0 6 0 29.66 4
Softball
THIS NEWSLETTER IS PRODUCED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PREMIER AND CABINET
ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS AND RECONCILIATION DIVISION
TO RECOGNISE AND SHOWCASE THE MANY ACTIVITES OCCURRING ON THE APY LANDS.
JULY-AUG 2008
Volume 1, Issue 4
Softball
Pukatja 20 def Amata 18
Mimili 17 def Fregon 3
Wintjalangu 10 def Pipalyatjara 0 (forfeit)
Murputja 22 def Indulkana 7
Mimili 23 def Wintjalangu 6
Pukatja 15 def Indulkana 11
Murputja 7 def Fregon 2
Amata 13 def Pipalyatjara 3
Amata 21 def Fregon 19
Mimili 29 def Murputja 13
Wintjalangu 25 def Pukatja 18
Indulkana 33 def Pipalyatjara 18
Mimili 15 def Pukatja 12
Wintjalangu 19 def Indulkana 6
Amata 34 def Murputja 8
Fregon 16 def Pipalyatjara 4
Murputja 15 def Pipalyatjara 10
Pukatja 12 def Fregon 8
Wintjalangu 9 def Amata 2
Mimili 10 def Indulkana 0 (forfeit)
In the last footy game of the season, bottom placed Fregon won an upset game against Pukatja who
were sitting at the top. This allowed Amata, with a big win against Wintjalangu, to become minor
premiers for 2008.
The Wintjalangu softball team got second spot with a win over Amata so they now get a double
chance in the finals. They were only beaten out of top spot on percentage by Mimili who became
minor premiers after a forfeit from Indulkana.
TEAM P W D L FF % PTS
Mimili 7 6 0 1 0 70.07 24
Wintjalangu 7 6 0 1 0 64.94 24
Amata 7 5 0 2 0 59.72 20
Pukatja 7 4 0 3 1 50.83 16
Murputja 7 4 0 3 0 45.79 16
Indulkana 7 2 0 5 1 41.83 8
Fregon 7 1 0 6 1 39.71 4
Pipalyatjara 7 0 0 7 2 23.72 0
PLEASE NOTE: All finals will be played at Pukatja.
If a team cannot field a side within 1 hour after the game start time, this team will record a forfeit.

P AGE 2
APY Thunder makes it four in a row
V OLUME 1, ISSUE 4
It was a close match most of the game but APY Thunder ended up beating the Maralinga
Eagles by 33 points in the 2008 Rio Tinto Indigenous Lands Challenge Cup.
The game was played at AAMI Stadium on Saturday 24 May as part of the Indigenous Round
prior to the Power vs Sydney match.
It was a very fast, free flowing match with many goals kicked and the talent on both sides was
really impressive!
Maralinga got off to a flyer in the match, before APY steadied to a one-point lead by quarter
time. Inaccurate kicking by the Thunder kept Maralinga in the game at halftime.
The third term was brilliant, with APY kicking the first 3 goals to get out to a 5 goal lead. They
looked like they might run away with the match before Maralinga kicked 5 goals in the last ten
minutes to trail by only 2 points at the last change.
The Eagles goaled again from the first bounce of the last term to put themselves in front for the
first time since the first quarter. But as all good teams should, the Thunder rose to the challenge
and kicked the last 6 goals of the game to win by 33 points.
This makes it four out of four for the Thunder and the players celebrated by treating the
spectators with back flips and cartwheels.
Palya APY Thunder players, coaches,
SANFL and everybody who helped make
this event possible.
The Most Valuable Player award went to
Jade Morrison for APY Thunder and Andy
Cox for the Maralinga Eagles.
APY Thunder Maralinga
Q1 3- 1 (19) 3- 0 (18)
Q2 6- 6 (42) 5- 1 (31)
Q3 9-10 (64) 10-2 (62)
Q4 15-13 (103) 11-4 (70)

ON THE LANDS - SPORTS SUPPLEMENT P AGE 3
Finke Desert Race June 2008
Twenty-five young men were chosen from a group of 40 from the
Substance Misuse and Youth Program to form the APY Racing team
to compete in this year’s Finke Desert Race. This bike race is held
over two days on the June long weekend when riders have to make
it over 460 kms from Alice Springs to Finke and return.
The APY team, who came from Amata, Fregon, Mimili, Ernabella,
Indulkana and Watarru, are first put through a training course. They
are loaned bikes and taught how to look after them and repair
them. Before racing they all agree to a code of conduct, which
includes no alcohol, petrol or illicit substances.
Five riders from APY Racing finished in the first 300 of 500 bike entries and
two riders finished fourth and fifth in the 0 to 200cc class. This was an
outstanding performance given the rain and muddy conditions.
Manager of the Substance Misuse and Youth Programs, Peter Kay, said
the race was a great success and a real benefit to the riders. “The race is
an excellent opportunity for young people to involve themselves in
something fun with a healthy focus.”
The pit crew at the Finke end of the race were supported by clients from
the Department of Family and Community’s (DFC)
disability program on the APY Lands. DFC staff and staff
from other agencies also volunteered as pit crew for the
event.
Riders hope to compete in the Kulgera Enduro on 28
September and the Masters Games Enduro at the Off
Road Track at Alice Springs on 12 October.

Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Division
GPO Box 2343
200 Victoria Square
Adelaide 5000
Phone: (08) 8226 2234
Fax: (08) 8226 2204
Email: APYNewsEditor@saugov.sa.gov.au
SPORTS DATES
Bike Practice:
17 August at Ernabella
Footy and Softball
Finals:
9 August
First Semi Final
Football at 12pm
Murputja V Pukatja
Softball at 12pm
Amata V Pukatja
Second Semi Final
Football at 2pm
Amata V Mimili
Softball at 2pm
Mimili V Wintjalangu
16 August
Preliminary Final
Softball at 12pm
Football at 2pm
Winner of 1st Semi Final
plays loser of 2nd Semi
23 August
Grand Final at Pukatja
Softball at 12pm
Football at 2pm
Winner of 2nd Semi Final
plays
Winner of Preliminary
Final
Not just horsing around
With 30,000 cattle on the Lands and 10 new
pastoral businesses approved for
development by the APY Land Management
Unit, there is a demand for Anangu skilled in
horse handling.
Troy Coe trained over 20 men in horse
breaking, riding and mustering at the Double
Tank yards near Fregon in May. This was a
joint project between the Charles Darwin
University and TAFE SA with support from a
number of government departments, local
industry and the APY Land Management Unit.
This three-week course required
hard work and commitment with
Tjilpis helping to train and
supervise the younger men. A
total of 30 horses were ‘broken
in’, with some of them being
ridden during the muster.
It also covered units from
Certificate 2 in Rural Operations,
including safety and team work,
with 21 completing the
‘breaking’ part of the course.
Those who passed have a
good chance of getting work
as stockmen. This highly
successful program finished
with a ceremony and
symbolic cattle muster.
The lecturers also gained huge personal
satisfaction from the experience. “I’ve seen big
changes in the men. They’ve got pride in
themselves and confidence in what they are
doing and it makes my job such a
pleasure when I see this,” Toby Gorringe
said.
Peter Dempster agreed, “The gratitude
shown to both of us and unashamed
pride of the attendees and extended
families at the closing ceremony was
mind-blowing and we have never
experienced such open, heartfelt
appreciation of our work,” he said.
Contact Numbers: Umuwa Police 8954 8250 Emergency 000