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BAC News – December 2019
Read our wrap up of BAC’s 2019
When did Maningrida art and culture become unimportant?
Ten years ago, Maningrida artists and community members selected a spot for the Maningrida Arts and Culture alongside the airport and a tract of vacant land that would allow future expansion. Our now internationally renowned artists, including John Mawurndjul OAM, Johnny Bulunbulun, Lena Yarinkura and Bob Burruwal, had the foresight to select that site with
2018-2019 Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation Annual Report
The Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation Annual Report 2018/2019 is now available. Bawinanga Annual Report 18-19 – Final
Bawinanga Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago today, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) became the final incarnation of a series of grassroots Aboriginal community organisations at Maningrida, 500 kilometres northeast of Darwin. It was 1979, and community friction, an influx of Balandas (white people), a sense of powerlessness and a desire to return to their family’s country, led community leaders
Winners! NT Export and Industry Awards 2019
So very excited to win. BAC Winner of the 2019 Chief Ministers NT Industry Awards – Indigenous Business Award Winner Accepted by our CEO Ingrid Stonhill and Chairman Dion Cooper.
BAC spices up Maningrida
Maningrida Wild Foods, a Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) enterprise, today launched a unique Kakadu Plum spice mix developed in partnership with Outback Chef. BAC CEO, Ingrid Stonhill, said the mix had been developed to enhance the flavour and boost the nutritional value of the meat and fish dinners preferred by Maningrida locals. The spice mix’s
One size doesn’t fit all
CEO Blog – Ingrid Stonhill, July 2019. I enjoy regular, wide-ranging chats with a particular Traditional Owner here in Maningrida. His knowledge and wisdom never cease to amaze me. During a recent chat he cited cultural awareness commentators Quappe and Cantatore: “A fish only discovers its need for water when it is no longer in
Maningrida kids – famous for all the wrong reasons
CEO blog – by Ingrid Stonhill, June 2019 I am a compassionate woman, perhaps more so because I am a mother. The gift of giving life is life changing. The lens in which you view the world changes forever. It becomes crucial to make the world a better place for our children to thrive and
Bawinanga Adopts-A-Lawyer
A group of Australia’s top lawyers spent last week in a remote West Arnhem Land community marking the commencement of a new pro bono relationship to provide Maningrida Arts and Culture with three years of pro bono legal services. The deal is part of the national ‘Adopt A Lawyer’ program created and brokered by the
Governing vulnerable people
A blog by CEO, Ingrid Stonhill, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation The Royal Commission into Child Sex Offending has produced many essential recommendations to protect those unable to defend themselves. This has significant implications for the not-for-profit sector, particularly those delivering on government contracts. Most noticeable is the increased compliance requirements for those working with vulnerable people.