Yoga Zeit

Schools and community groups in a few communities in the Kimberley recently had a visit from the crew at Yoga Zeit. Yoga Zeit is working in remote indigenous communities to train the communities in mindfulness and yoga movement not only as a way of staying fit but as a way of managing stress, of st…

Fitzroy Crossing Blue Tree

After a period of significant mental health battles across the Fitzroy Valley, the Fitzroy Crossing Police have teamed up with service providers across the region to try and take steps to address community concerns. Nindilingarri Cultural Health Services, the local mental health and drug and alcoho…

Water is Life – The Battle for Martuwarra

The Martuwarra, or Fitzroy River, in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley, is regarded by local traditional owners as the sacred river of life. The First Laws of the Martuwarra are shared by Martuwarra Nations through a common songline, which sets out community and individual rights and duties. F…

Martin Pritchard, Environs Kimberley on the future of Martuwarra and the Fitzroy Valley

We’ve been talking a lot about the Martuwarra as the West Australian government prepares to decide on water allocations in the Fitzroy Valley catchment. Several cattle stations in the region, including Gogo, Liveringa and Fossil Downs, want to take billions more litres of water from the Margaret a…

Water Is Life

As you know, the West Australian government will soon decide on water allocations in the Fitzroy Valley catchment. A number of cattle stations in the region, including Gogo, Liveringa and Fossil Downs, want to extract billions more litres of water from the Margaret and Martuwarra Fitzroy Rivers fo…

Gogo Station Irrigation Licenses

The West Australian government will soon decide on water allocations in the Fitzroy Valley catchment. A number of cattle stations in the region, including Gogo, Liveringa and Fossil Downs want to extract billions more litres of water from the Margaret and Martuwarra Fitzroy Rivers for cropping. N…

Yarnin with travellers passing through Fitzroy

Every year in our cold time we see mob from down south pass through this region on some big trip. The arrival of Covid saw even more WA travellers on the road in their home state because they'd usually go over seas at this time.  David and Cynthia Batey live in Perth. Over the last six years they'…

Kimberley Region Leads The Way On Environmental Health Programs

Environmental factors play such a crucial role in the health of our society. From mould or dust in our houses to the diseases our pets, native animals, or pests might carry, the condition of our living environments often relates directly to our health and wellbeing.   One Aboriginal Organisation d…

The Travelling Jackeroo

Nineteen-year-old teenager Sam Hughes from Maleny in Queensland is on a long slow drive around Australia on a tractor raising money for charity. The Travelling Jackeroo, as he’s known, has racked up over 8-thousand kilometres since heading off from Maleny early last year. This week he reached Fit…

Patrick Dodson Explains Special Envoy Role

Western Australia Labor Senator Patrick Dobson has been appointed Special Envoy for Reconciliation and the implementation of the Uluru Statement in the new Federal Labor Government.   Senator Dodson is considered the grandfather of Reconciliation with decades of experience in Aboriginal Affairs, …