$1.6 million upgrade for Juno Centre
New accommodation and improved equine facilities are key features of a $1.6 million investment in an agricultural training centre just east of Tennant. The Juno Centre offers residential and in-reach programs to students from across the Territory.
Students bowl the day away
Pam Dillon. Students from Newcastle Waters and Elliott schools recently had a day each learning the fine art of lawn bowls. Students from Family as First Teachers (FaFT) to Year 9 were involved in a variety of activities using the lawn bowls kit.
Boxing and skateboard champ calls in to talk importance of looking after your mental health
Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia NT (MIFANT) were fortunate enough to have the assistance of Louise ‘Bang Bang Lulu’ Hawton, former skateboarding champion, and two time World Champion Atomweight boxer, to get the mental health message across.
Calling on young Barkly champions to step up to Youth Round Table
Young Territorians who champion their community are encouraged to apply for a seat at the NT Youth Round Table 2022. Up to 16 positions are available for Territorians, ages 15 to 25. The Round Table gives young people a direct line of communication with the Northern Territory Government and provides a platform to share their views about issues and interests relevant to their peers.
Fears about future of town’s only gym
News that Tennant Creek’s only gym is set to close at the end of the year has local fitness and wellbeing fans up in arms. Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation’s Sports and Recreation Centre announced it will shut its doors permanently on 24 December ... “Anyinginyi has been at the heart of sport and recreation in Tennant Creek for most of its 37-year history”: CEO Barb Shaw.
Tale about NT town has links to the Barkly
When Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson set out to write a book about the town of Larrimah, 490km north of Tennant Creek, they had no idea the research would lead them all over the Northern Territory, including the Barkly region. The journalists, who met in a newsroom in Mackay 15 years ago, first told the story of missing man Paddy Moriarty in their 2018 Walkley Award-winning podcast Lost in Larrimah.
