Environment

Katherine Town Council provides a variety of services to Katherine residence.

Services include waste and animal management, maintenance of roads and infostructure and administration of council facilities.

Encouraging Northern Territory people and their communities to protect, conserve and enhance their environmental wellbeing.

By becoming a member, you are joining the Keep Australia Beautiful Team and helping us create the future we all long for, but need each other to achieve. Membership is your ticket to the sustainable world of tomorrow.

Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation (LNAC) is a large, progressive and professional Aboriginal organisation with a dual purpose: It is the representative organisation for the Larrakia people, the traditional owners of Darwin and is also a major service provider for Aboriginal people in the region.

LNAC is a dynamic, membership-based organisation, and a major Aboriginal service delivery and business development organisation in the areas of:

• community services
• homelessness support
• land and sea monitoring
• management and arts, culture and knowledge.

Aged & Disability Support Services

Larrakia Nation Aged Care Service is an approved provider of Aged Care Services for the Commonwealth Department of Health.  Our primary focus is to assist our clients in living stronger, living longer. We do this by focusing on working with individuals and their strengths, capacity and goals to enable them to remain living independently and safely in their home.

Tenancy Support

Provides life-skills training for tenants in areas such as budgeting, money & debt management, renters’ rights & responsibilities and household safety to enable them to retain tenancies and maintain healthy places to live.

Return to Country (RTC)

Provides information, referral, proof of identification documents, and return-to-country flights for indigenous people returning to their communities.

The office also finds short-term accommodation for indigenous people who are living in or visiting Darwin.

Health Engagement & Assistance in the Long Grass (HEAL) Program

Provides practical support for homeless and houseless indigenous people in order to improve their health and wellbeing. Programs include Grass Buddies and Arts in the Grass.

Larrakia Assist & Night Patrol

Our Night Patrol service runs three vehicles, seven nights a week, looking after Aboriginal people in Darwin and Palmerston. We provide early intervention to remove people from danger and keep them safe. We resolve disputes using culture and mediation.

Larrakia Outreach & Transport Service

An outreach intervention, prevention and transport service for indigenous people who are homeless, itinerant or living in the long grass. Transport is provided to enable people to attend medical appointments, Centrelink offices, other welfare services and the airstrip for return-to-country flights.

Youth Patrol

Our Youth Patrol is a new initiative funded in Night Patrol. Operating a bus with the same times and contact number as Night Patrol, we take young people home so they get to bed to be ready for school the next day. We work closely with local youth centres to deliver this service and we encourage any young people needing transport home at night to call us on 1800 101 645

Larrakia Rangers

Provide conservation and land management services including erosion control, feral animal & weed control, board walk construction, turtle rescue, fencing, marine surveys and water quality testing.

Laynha services some 30 homeland communities with a population of approximately 1100 Yolngu residents across the region, and approximately 300 regular visitors.

It is a member-based association of the Yolngu, with no statutory or other powers.

Laynha supports homeland communities through:

• Yirralka Rangers
• Health Services
• Community Services
• Homeland Services
• Ganybu Housing Aboriginal Corporation
• Partnerships with organisations in the region with shared interests to support employment and training opportunities, culture and community, and economic development
• Representing and promoting Laynha homelands

Litchfield Council is the local government council responsible for planning and delivery of a range of services, including waste and animal management, maintenance of roads and infostructure and administration of council facilities.

Minyerri Municipal services provides rubbish pick up on week days from Monday to Friday in the Minyerri Community to 68 households including businesses and other organisations.

The Municipal service identifies areas where waste management can be improved, eg. reducing the number of plastic bags, plastic bottles and aluminium in the community and ensuring that the Minyerrri rubbish dump is maintained daily.

Please contact us for further information on Minyerri Waste Management on 08 89759797.

Construction based business, indigenous owned.
With the aim to create job and opportunities for indigenous people to further themselves in the industry.

This program is broadcasted via YouTube and it covers the Li’L Larrikins who are a group of friends having big adventures and learning about natural hazards in a small outback town. In these videos you get to meet Amy, Trev and Jimmy as well as Maddy the Koala and Bob the dog as they learn all about how to prepare for and manage the dangerous bushfire season. Follow along as they teach about fire safety, emergency plans and preventative measures.

This program is a free cyclone briefing that can be offered to businesses, government agencies, community groups and high schools to help prepare Territorians for tropical cyclones in the NT. The briefing is a PowerPoint presentation that focuses solely on how to prepare, respond and recover from cyclones. DURATION: 30 minutes

NTES offers a free flood briefing to businesses, government agencies, community groups and high schools to help prepare Territorians for floods in the Northern Territory. The briefing is a power point presentation that focuses on how to prepare, respond and recover from floods. DURATION: 20 minutes