Anmatjere News

Norman Hagan has been selected to participate in the 2022/23 Kigaruk and Lookrukin Aboriginal Leadership Development Program. He is the Administration Officer, Council Delivery Services in Yuelamu with Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC).

Last Wednesday was International Women’s Day, which is celebrated every March 8. This day is about striving for a gender equal world, as well as celebrating women in all their diversity.

Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Community Development Program (CDP) job seekers cut grass around the CDP activity centre in February. The grass had grown very tall due to all the rain received.

In December Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Aged Care held their bi-monthly meeting, attended by staff from the Alice Springs office and Aged Care Coordinators from Nyirripi, Lajamanu, Willowra, Engawala, Atitjere and Wilora.

The Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Wilora Aged Care Centre is now operating as a fully functioning Aged Care Centre offering all services to Wilora clients.

In December 2021, the Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) Community Development Program (CDP) collaborated with Civil Train NT and Centre for Appropriate Technology (CfAT) to deliver Introduction to Civil Construction training in Ti Tree. This was delivered as a joint initiative between Civil Train and CfAT under the NT Government’s Job Trainer program.

Anmatjere has won the Best Small Community award in the 2021 Territory Sustainable Communities Tidy Towns awards, run by Keep Australia Beautiful NT.

Engawala and Laramba also got in on the action with Litter Management commendations awarded to both communities, making it two in a row for Engawala.

At the end of October 2021, the Commercial Services team from Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) converged in Alice Springs for in-house training.

In one of the sessions of the training the team reviewed the upcoming changes to employment services in regional and remote Australia; particularly, Government’s decision to change the Community Development Program (CDP) to a new remote jobs program in 2023. There was also a representative from the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) Central Australia office Engagement Team who attended a session to talk about the provider performance review process.

The Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) 2020-21 annual report has been sent to the Minister for Local Government, Chansey Paech MLA, and is now up on the CDRC website. The annual report shows the progress CDRC has made against the Strategic Plan throughout the financial year and the CDRC annual financial statements. It also includes achievements and stories of the CDRC communities.

You can read the annual report here: 2020-2021 Annual Report