Our Mission at TDC is to develop all commercial opportunities on behalf of the clan members throughout the Region to advance our key aims of providing local jobs for local people and, in the long term, ensuring every child has a chance of a full life.

Representatives from the TDC Board, Kardu Diminin and Marda Pek Pek came together this week to discuss a range of things to help make community strong again.

Discussion included, mental health and taking care of ourselves and each other; ways to help the young people break bad habits and behaviours; creating a safe space at the cultural centre for people to come together; understanding the different organisations and how to help people tap into different services.

Thank you to Tobias Nganbe , Cyrill Ninnal and Lorretta Ninnal for leading the discussions and Scott McIntyre for facilitating.

Here are just some of the 800 VHS tapes that were digitised during the Kanemkek Yile-Ngala Museum digitisation project. In collaboration with The University of Melbourne & AIATSIS , Mark Crocombe and Scott Roxburgh have been busy preserving over 2000 hours of cultural and historically significant footage which was added to the museum’s audio-visual library. The Kanamkek-Yile Ngala Museum is the keeping place for the cultural material of the Wanngka, Lirrga and Tjanpa peoples of the Thamarrurr region.

If you haven’t visited the museum , it is a really worthwhile and humbling experience, Mark Crocombe does an excellent tour, and his passion for the history of Wadeye is infectious.

The AEC were in Wadeye this week ac-companied by Births Deaths and Mar-riages and Drive Safe NT. Over 200 birth certificates were distrib-uted and 72 people obtained their Learners, 7 passed their license test. Michael Pupuli was super excited to pass his drivers license test. He has been trying to get his license for a long time and was absolutely chuffed to fi-nally get it. Congratulations Michael , we are all very proud of you.

The satellite tag that the Thamarrurr rangers recently retrieved was originally deployed on a 4.5m large-tooth sawfish! The sawfish was tagged in September with the involvement of the Uunguu Rangers near the mouth of the Roe River in the Kimberly’s

It detached from the animal in November and drifted around for about 6 weeks before washing up on Cape Scott. This was an archival tag that records and stores high resolution data on the location and movement of the animal. As far as we know, this is the first successful satellite tagging of a large-tooth sawfish, and the data collected will aid in the conservation and management of the species.

Suspicious minds were working overtime in Men’s Shed following the disappearance of a much-loved fur felt hat. The atmosphere was tense, and people were giving each other sideways glances, trying to figure out who the culprit might be. The Men’s Shed was equipped with CCTV, so the local detectives got to work. Super Sleuth Detective PZ was in charge and the investigation was on. They quickly established a time frame and set up a crime scene, ready to catch the thief. After accessing the footage and going through it thoroughly, the detectives were certain they had their man.

They saw the suspect lurking around where the hat was last seen, and then they watched as he walked towards the chair where the hat was sitting. But at the last minute, the suspect stepped to the side and sat down near the hat. The detectives were all on edge, waiting for the suspect to make his move. They were sure he was just biding his time and waiting for the perfect opportunity to snatch the hat and run. Tick tock, tick tock – the seconds on the CCTV were ticking away, and tension was building in the room. And then, in a flash of gold and brown, a dingo burst through the door and in one swift move, the dingo lunged at the hat, grabbed it in its jaws, and ran off, tail wagging triumphantly. The detectives were left stunned, looking at each other in disbelief but they couldn’t help but laugh. And so, the mystery of the stolen hat was solved. It wasn’t the work of a cunning thief after all – it was just a dingo who had a thing for fancy headwear. Thank you Men’s Shed for sharing this story.