Aurukun community fun run - Far North.
Aurukun State School, Aurukun QLD. 1K likes. Located in Aurukun, Queensland.
Aurukun Aboriginal Community. We work with your community to create a community blueprint against which all future government policy, services and infrastructure must be aligned. “Doing things with people. Not to them”. The program begins with extensive community engagement, the identification of core community values and the creation of a community owned vision. The program has it.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Wik and Kugu People. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
Commissioner Ada Panawya WOOLLA OAM (Winchanum Clan) was born and raised in Aurukun, leaving the community to attend boarding school and later Cairns Business College. Aurukun Commissioner Woolla was re-elected to the position of Councillor in the Aurukun Shire Council on 19 March 2016. Upon election to the position of Councillor for the Aurukun Shire Council in April 2012 she retired from her.
In Aurukun (Urban Centres and Localities), of people aged 15 years and over, 57.6% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 46.0% provided care for children and 19.4% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 17.9% of people did voluntary work.
Aurukun Shire Council Mayor Dereck Walpo said the Queensland Police Service, the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet had all been supportive of installing CCTV in Aurukun. “Due to ongoing community unrest and associated anti-social behaviour in Aurukun, all.
The local community petitioned the Commonwealth government for assistance, and after several years of dispute and negotiation, the Wik people of Aurukun were given a 50 year lease of the former reserve, administered under the Local Government (Aboriginal Lands) Act 1978. The elected shire council administers an area of 7500 sq km, the Uniting (successor to the Presbyterian) Church having ceded.