It is home to Aboriginal homelands communities and the main town, Fitzroy Crossing, has a high Indigenous population.
Despite repeated assurances that no Northern Territory remote homelands would be closed, a lack of government communication has left leaders in the Arnhem land community of Milingimbi believing it to be inevitable.
She and her team will travel the country doing what is necessary to get people involved and informed: public advocacy, coalition-building behind the scenes – everything from pinning Recognise badges on willing rock stars at the Aria awards, to consulting and campaigning in the homelands.
We want to be part of the dialogue about homelands and sustainability".
"We have concerns about the threats to our homelands," it says.
There are the tribes that stay on their own homelands in the forest (or seek to do so), but who have regular relations with the outside.
The results are clear: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese are now found far from their homelands.
If Europeans want to continue to fund the generous health care and pensions they have awarded themselves, then in the absence of a hitherto concealed fondness for procreation they will have to attract more workers from abroad.The ambitious young men and women who leave their homelands for better lives in Europe might be a good fit for countries facing long-term labour shortages.
The mainly white Democratic party also feels forgotten; some of its leaders are rumoured to be on the point of joining the ANC.The rulers of the ten black "homelands" are the most uncomfortable of all.
Gavin Barwell, MP for racially diverse Croydon Central, in south London, wants the prime minister to make a speech repudiating the "cricket test" set by Norman Tebbit, a Thatcherite former cabinet minister who condemned migrants for cheering their ancestral homelands in matches against England.
Turkish officials refuse to concede that Turkey itself, over centuries of domination, forcibly removed hundreds of objects from their homelands.
