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In northern Arnhem Land, locals have concrete employment plans for the future thanks to a project that has an Aboriginal organisation, industry, university, local government and the Australian Government working together.

Hard working and pro-active School Attendance Officers (SAOs) are achieving significant results in the community of Lajamanu in the Northern Territory.

Aboriginal peoples in the Murray-Darling Basin have been intimately connected to its river systems for thousands of years. Recognising this, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) recently worked with Aboriginal Traditional Owners from Deniliquin and Walgett in New South Wales and the Victorian Alps to test a method to measure the health of river and wetland places.

Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion was on hand to assist the School Attendance Officers at Gunbalanya on the first day of the school term.

The remote NT community of Jilkminggan is one of 69 across the country participating in the Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS) where local people work together to get kids to school each and every day.