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Remote Pools Project Working alongside remote Aboriginal communities to keep local pools open. A project of The Y Northern Territory

18/10/2026

From Nunawading to Ngukurr to Numbulwar, it’s so good to see different communities walk (swim!) alongside each other.

This week at Ngukurr pool, 19 students from the neighbouring community of Numbulwar travelled nearly 3 hours one-way to come for swimming lessons. For some students, it was their first time at a pool!

They were taught by Lucy and Ginnie from Just Swimming, who’ve travelled up from Nunawading, Vic, to volunteer at the pool over the next four weeks.

The Numbulwar kids had so much fun, including camping overnight at the Ngukurr school. Big big thanks to the Numbulwar staff for prioritising swimming lessons despite the big journey, and to Ginnie and Lucy for their excellent teaching 💛

02/10/2026

We’re open again, for good!

Very happy to announce that after 3 years of seasonal operations, Lajamanu water park will now remain open year-round ⛲️

We‘re hopeful that opening year-round will increase the physical, social and emotional benefits the park brings to local kids, and provide more consistent and stable employment to our local workforce. Big thanks to the Lajamanu GMAAAC committee making this possible.

Only a few weeks to go until we reopen the beautiful Ltyentye Apurte pool for our sixth year. Very happy to return and w...
30/09/2026

Only a few weeks to go until we reopen the beautiful Ltyentye Apurte pool for our sixth year.

Very happy to return and work alongside our local team.

Big thanks to MacDonnell Regional Council for our ongoing partnership to keep the pool open.

📸 by Jessica Howard for Australian Women’s Weekly

Waiting patiently for the Lajamanu water park to reopen……Only a week to go! 🥳
24/09/2026

Waiting patiently for the Lajamanu water park to reopen…

…Only a week to go! 🥳

Fantastic photos from Borroloola’s Malandarri Festival held a couple of weeks ago. The annual festival celebrates the Ya...
22/09/2026

Fantastic photos from Borroloola’s Malandarri Festival held a couple of weeks ago.

The annual festival celebrates the Yanyuwa, Garrwa, Gudanji and Mara cultures, representing the four clans that call Borroloola home today.

We’re so proud to work across communities that have so many cultural histories and traditions.

Great job by the festival organisers, Gulf Youth & Community Service.

📸 by Benjamin Ellis

There’s been a lot of Sorry Business in Ngukurr lately, and community has been quieter, with various events postponed ou...
27/08/2026

There’s been a lot of Sorry Business in Ngukurr lately, and community has been quieter, with various events postponed out of respect.

Last Friday felt like the right time to come together more joyfully again. Yugul Mangi Development Aboriginal Corporation organised a delayed NAIDOC week celebration right next door to the pool.

The pool was full and loud, a local band played -testing some new music equipment for the first time!-, there was food, people were dancing, and our new co****le boards were a big hit.

Big love for Ngukurr and thanks to all the people who make events like last week’s so special 💛

It’s been just 51 years since the Wave Hill walk-off. Well within the lifetime of a third of Australians.In 1966, two hu...
23/08/2026

It’s been just 51 years since the Wave Hill walk-off. Well within the lifetime of a third of Australians.

In 1966, two hundred Gurindji, Mudburra and Walpiri people protested poor working conditions when they walked off the cattle station where they were employed, about 1.5hrs north of where our waterpark in Lajamanu sits today. Led by Gurindji man, Vincent Lingiari, this began the national Land Rights movement.

Nine years later, then prime minister Gough Whitlam handed Vincent Lingiari the title deeds for a portion of that cattle station, pictured here. Lingiari held the deeds in his left hand as Whitlam poured a handful of red earth into Lingiari’s right palm – ‘a sign that this land will be in the possession of you and your children forever.’

It was the first time the Australian government had returned land to traditional owners.

Happy Gurindji Freedom Day 💛

📸 by Mervyn Bishop, 1975, via the National Portrait Gallery

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