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Ngukurr

Community profile

Ngukurr is a community on the Roper Highway approximately 3.5 hours east of Katherine.

For more information, see Roper Gulf Regional Council.

Ngukurr is a community on the Roper Highway approximately 3.5 hours east of Katherine.

For more information, see Roper Gulf Regional Council.

Languages

Kriol, Ngalakan, Alawa

Population

1088

92.1% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ABS 2021 Census)

Stories from Ngukurr

Several youth stand on a roadway over which flows a river. At left are rocks in the stream and in the background is a dirt road, trees and blue sky.

Keeping busy during school holidays in Ngukurr

15 September 2020

The school kids of Ngukurr are spending their school holidays engaged in quality activities thanks to YMD Aboriginal Corporation.
Two Aboriginal boys in grass skirts stand at left and behind an Aboriginal man in a red shirt and boy in a grass skirt in the foreground. The man holds some papers on which he and the third boy are focussed. In the background is long grass and trees.

Lil Bois – waking the language of Ngandi

27 August 2019

Read about Ngandi writer and director Grant Thompson and his desire to wake his traditional language through film.
Elderly Aboriginal man sits back to back with young Aboriginal boy on grassy ground. Immediately behind them are three film-makers and further back are more Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal film makers another Aboriginal actor, lights, trees and grass.

Ngukurr Story Project – telling our stories in our language

19 July 2018

The community of Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, is producing stories for their community and for the world, telling them in Roper Kriol or one of the traditional languages from the region.
A group of young Indigenous women and their female supervisor standing near a body of water and trees.

Trip to Darwin broadens education opportunities for young Ngukurr women

24 January 2017

A group of schoolgirls from the remote Northern Territory community of Ngukurr travelled to Darwin recently to explore future academic opportunities. The students visited several boarding schools, Charles Darwin University (CDU) and Government House, and met with local Aboriginal women who spoke about their own experiences working towards successful careers and being role models for young women in their own communities.