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Future, Country Gelganyem,

OUR VISION

In 19 years time our vision is to: Be healthy Be culturally strong Be economically strong

Employ and manage our own skilled Aboriginal staff

Have the same lifestyle

opportunities as the rest of the population

Have great choices for ourselves

and our country Have well educated children Live sustainably and peacefully together

Gelganyem Trustees May 2007

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Trustees

Big Changes in Gelganyem Trust

Mandangala

Chairperson of Gelganyem Trust Ted Hall has left and Ralph Gerrard is replacing him as the new Mandangala Trustee. Thankyou

to Ted for all of his hard work to get the Trusts strong!

Outgoing Chairman Ted Hall

"Hello everybody, This is my last Message to you for Gelganyem Trust, I have stepped down since the last meeting in May and Maria Morgan and Helen Pinday was elected as Chair's, Sharing the role, It has been a Great experience working for our mob and delivering some good projects to the region, I believe we can go on with strength and determination because we have the will to do so, Lots of luck and best wishes to the Trustees, Admin and Dawang groups." Forever in the Northeast, Ted.

New Independent Trustee in 2008

Gelganyem’s Male Independent Trustee, Ian Williams, is leaving and Tony Jack has been chosen to replace him. Thank you to Ian for all his work on the Kilkayi and Gelganyem

Trusts.

Tony Jack and outgoing trustee Ian Williams

Ian Williams

“I have been asked whether I’m happy to finish my job as a trustee of the Gelganyem and Kilkayi Trusts. Yes and no. Yes because it has been a rewarding and enjoyable experience meeting and working with people in the Dawang and to be part of the development of these trusts. It’s always good to be associated with success. The undoubted success is in large part due to the enthusiasm and wisdom of the trustees – the capable chairmanship of Ted Hall, the strong administrative support and contribution of RPM and the ongoing commitment of Argyle Diamonds. However now is the time to hand over to a new Trustee. Tony Jack, taking my place, will bring new ideas and enthusiasm to both trusts. The decision for the trust to develop it, and administrative support, a number of new trustees, and new programs will result in many changes and challenges. Now is the right time to hand over to some one who will provide these skills in this period. I thank my fellow trustees for their friendship and wish Gelganyem and Kilkayi many years of continued great success”.

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Yunurr

Paddy McGinty is leaving the Trust. Gelganyem Trust thanks Paddy for all his

great work, and wishes him success with his business.

Gelganyem Trustee Paddy McGinty

Robert Lumai New Yunurr Trustee

We thank these trustees for all their efforts and support.

May Trust Meeting

It’s time for change. We need to build up the skills of our new Trustees. We only have four of the Founding Trustees still on the trust.

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Elections After being Chairperson for Gelganyem Trust for 3 years Ted Hall is stepping down from this position. He is doing this to be able to devote more time to his Luridgii business.

Maria Morgan Helen Pinday

Co-Chairpersons Maria Morgan and Helen Pinday will take over as Co-Chairs of Gelganyem Trust. They will share this role for the next year.

Dennis Ward and Damien Henry were selected to be Co-Vice Chairs. They will also share this role for the next year.

Dennis Ward Damien Henry

Co-vice Chairpersons

What’s happening with Gelganyem projects

How is the Trust’s money going?

We have talked a lot to Plan B mob who look after our funds. Their advice is that we keep investing they way we have been and the money will grow

again and be good for the future. As reported in February, the stock market went down. It is still not going up again but Plan B, the people looking after our money, say we should keep doing what we are doing. The money will start to grow more over time. We are hoping that Terry from Plan B will come up for our next Relationship Committee meeting and talk more about our money.

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Charitable Trust It has now been a year since Gelganyem Trust has got charitable Status which means Gelganyem does not have to pay tax and can use the money for community development projects and keep investing the Future fund for projects for a long time to come. Thanks to Argyle Diamond Mine for all their help with talking to the tax office.

Forward in Business (FIB)

Forward in Business is about helping to get Dawang businesses up and running. Two businesses have been getting help and advice through FIB which is being paid for with money the Trustees got from the Office of Aboriginal Economic Development. We are now looking at other businesses for FIB to support. Ones we are looking at are:

• Caravan Park at Cockatoo Springs – Bilbildjing/Balaburr

• Mechanical workshop at Warmun - Jalangarnany

• Contracting business around Wyndham – Dun Dun

• Earthmoving contract at the ADM – Yunurr Contact Rick, Executive Office, if you have Business Ideas you want help with.

Ribinyung aquaculture

Gelganyem Pty Ltd

New Business Arm for Gelganyem Trust through this business we want to put in for contracts at the mine, and be able to invest in property, buildings and other businesses. The idea is to make money.

Renal Health

With funding from Gelganyem Chrissie Fiegert has been working out of OVAHS talking to TOs about looking after their kidneys. She came to the February Trust meeting to tell us all how things were going and talk about some TV ads about healthy lifestyle that will soon be on TV.

Kids at Mulan School

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Gelganyem has been paying Chrissie’s wages for almost 2 years. Now the State Government will take over paying for Chrissie. Trustees and MG Corp now plan for a Renal Dialysis unit in Kununurra so TO’s don’t have to go to Perth or Broome for treatment.

Clontarf program We are still funding the Clontarf High School program at KDHS and Clontarf has asked Gelganyem to help fund their new primary school program for year 5, 6 and 7 boys.

Clontarf Boys in Timber Creek

Girls program

Michelle Pass has been working on the Gelganyem Trust’s Girls Program Research. Special thanks go to all the women who helped. Over 130 people have been interviewed. We talked with teenage girls, parents, caregivers, community members and service providers about the reasons many girls do not attend school. We asked for ideas for programs that would encourage the girls to engage in education. We talked about how young mothers could go back to school and what help they may need with their children. We talked to people about Aboriginal students who do well at school and what they need to help them get on with their education and jobs.

The Girls took a trip to Darwin, thanks to MG Corp.

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Youth well being

Boys in Wyndham Wyndham is about to host an exciting photo exhibition by talented local young people. The amazing photos, taken in January this year, represent the young photographer’s experience of growing up in the East Kimberley, and are accompanied by their insightful stories. Supported by the Gelganyem Trust, the exhibition has evolved out of an ongoing partnership between the local community and the University of Notre Dame. At the invitation of community leaders, groups of students and staff from the university spend two months (January and July) living and working within the community. Presently there are groups in Wyndham and Oombulgurri with plans to also visit Warmun. The exhibition represents an important milestone and cements the relationship for future collaborations. For further details and exhibition dates please contact RPM on 9169 2651.

Youth Council Gelganyem Youth Council met for the first time in early November and we have had another meeting a few weeks ago. For the next few months we are going to have meetings at the mine once a month with the Youth Council.

Youth Council reps are: Mandangala Bernadette Hall Simon Tiltuwum Mika McLennon Yunurr William Ramsey Dun Dun Colleen Morgan Balaburr Edmund Calwat Bilbildjing Matara Brown Neminuwarlin Desley-Anne Jessell

Holiday program Gelganyem funded 2 Dawangs to run holiday programs for April school holidays. Dun Dun ran its program out at Oombi. The program events ranged from sport carnivals and discos in the community plus fishing, hunting, and camping trips out at the back country.

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Mona Ramsay and the kids Bilbildjing set its base camp at Cockatoo Springs then ran program such as pointing out significant sites and telling the cultural story to it, plus fishing and hunting. These programs were delivered at Keep River, Ben River and Spillway areas.

Lots of fun to be had for the kids on country!! Gelganyem is funding 4 Dawangs for the July holidays - Dun Dun, Yunurr, Bilbildjing and Balaburr. Thanks to OVAHS and their report.

Ben Ward, Bilbildjing Holiday Program

Adult Literacy Gelganyem invites Dawangs to come up with project ideas, even if the project challenges there skill levels because Gelganyem can get ICV to work with you to gain the literacy skills. Some community members at Mandangala are going to work with an ICV person to restore photos and download photos of school systems and print them then put them into albums that will be labelled and put into the library that is shared by community members and students.

ORIC is in town and if any Dawangs want to learn how to keep there corporation healthy then Gelganyem can use the Adult Literacy program to support you to run your corporation better.

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Scholarship Program Gelganyem has done a review of the scholarship program and everyone is happy with how it is running. It will keep the same rules where scholarship funds are paid straight to schools in 2008. You can get application forms from the Office or talk to Rick.

Caravan for ICV Volunteers We have bought a caravan so ICV people will have somewhere to stay when they are working in communities.

Helping out Community At the May Trust meeting it was agreed that Gelganyem would give money to the Kimberley All Starts basketball team to help them go to a competition in Darwin. The trust is funding Garnduwa to help with a Youth Leadership Camp for boys and a sporting program for girls. Gelganyem is funding KDHS to help pay for a driver so a bus can go around and pick up TO kindy, year 1 and year 2 kids to make sure they get into the habit of going to school from the beginning.

Station Skills Program Gelganyem is funding the development of a station skills program for youth. Boyd Curren from Queensland who set up Riversleigh Station skills program for Cape York Trusts is coming to the East Kimberley to talk to stations about a partnership with Gelganyem to have Dawang youth live and work on the station. This program will be for boys and girls.

Riversleigh station - Cape York Trusts

Fenton Kayuka, Bruce Chong and Donovan Evans celebrate the completion of their

Certificate in Agriculture – Beef Production

WCCCA visits Gelganyem

Trustees working with WCCCA

At the end of April the Western Cape Communities Trusts from Queensland

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came to the East Kimberley to visit the Gelganyem Trust for four days. WCCCA met with Gelganyem Trust representatives to talk about Trust arrangements, responsibilities and projects; A tour to examine/discuss Gelganyem projects and meet Gelganyem Traditional Owners; Also a days workshop to scope out capacity development and social/economic development issues to outline a strategy for going forward.

Kilkayi Trust

Yunurr Annual Plan Meeting The Annual Plan meeting were held in March and April.

Balaburr Annual Plan Meeting

At each meeting Chris went through the Gate List and who talks for money and the Trustees talked about what Gelganyem is doing.

Neminuwarlin Annual Plan Meeting

Chris Garstone is Kilkayi Project Manager. Being in this position means he will get projects started and keep them moving. Chris will be in the Warmun office on Mondays and Tuesdays, working on projects at the outstations. He will be in and around Kununurra on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. He will stay in the Gelganyem caravan that is now based at the Warmun Caravan Park. Kilkayi will have a new 4x4 dual cab Hilux by the 25th July 2008.

Yunurr Annual Plan Meeting

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Executive Office Report

RPM at Language centre Cultural Awareness Training

The executive office has Rick Downie, Chris Garston, Erica Ward, in the office and Charlie Cann and Lucilla Martin as field staff. We have been working with the new trustees running induction sessions with them every Monday 10-12 noon at RPM, so if you want any information about the trust ask your trustee or come into the office and talk to one of the Gelganyem Team. Executive Office is writing a plain English training package for new Trustees to learn about:

• The Trustees’ roles and responsibilities.

• The rules of the Trust. • The job of the Trust and how the Trust

is run. • The different Trust funds and how they

work. • Trust money matters such as

investments and interest. • The job of the Relationship

Committee. • How the Trust and the Relationship

Committee work together

Trustee Induction Session

The executive office lost one of the workers last month. He was Neminuwarlin Dawang who worked the Holiday Programs and did great work with the kids, he will be sadly missed.

Argyle Partner Partner

Management Plans

TO Business at the Mine The ADM ground tour contract with Slingair is now subcontracting Ted Hall’s Luridgii Aboriginal Cultural Experience to run the tours with the tourists on the buses.

Ted Hall’s Luridgii Aboriginal Cultural Experience Tour guides.

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Argyle Contract Opportunities Expression of interest: Expressions of Interest are open for the following commute contracts:

Halls Creek Bus Charter Service (Halls Creek Employee Bus

Commute) Kununurra Bus Charter Service

(Kununurra to Mine Employee Bus Commute)

Expressions of interest will close on 16 July. Please contact Keren Vij at Argyle Diamonds on 9168 1878 to obtain documents. Short Term Contract Opportunity There will be a one off contract to supply labour to erect the Airport fence. This will be a short term contract and those interested will be invited to quote. Contracts upcoming July – December

Aviation contract (daily commute Kununurra to Mine):

Aviation contract (Darwin to Mine) Advance Tyre Repair

Please contact Keren Vij at Argyle Diamonds on 9168 1878 to register your interest for any of the above contracts

Other News: The grading tender is underway and

will close in July. The contract for the Catering

Cleaning and Associated Services at Argyle Diamond Mine site has been extended for 12 months

Annual Mine Tour

The Annual Mine Tour went really well. The TO’s, Executive office and Argyle people enjoyed a day on the bus getting out to look at the mine and what ADM was doing with the land.

Revegetation Trails are going great. Meeting are being held to speak about bush tucker.

It was great to get out and see sites like the cave. Seeing how Argyle is rehabilitating the land. The TO’s made great suggestions such as planting more bush tucker.

Traineeships Apprenticeships Administration Construction Processing Mechanical Fitting

Heavy Duty Plant Mechanic

Electrical If you have any questions please call Ray Chamberlain on 0404 450 891

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Lunch with the Trainees and Apprentices The Trainees and Apprentices came down and had lunch with the TO’s. This was a great opportunity for the young ones to meet the TO’s and understand the meaning of

country. Thank you to Argyle Diamond Mine for the tour guides, staff that helped and the great lunch you put on.

BDTF The next BDTF meeting will be on the 12th August. Business Development Taskforce has met twice this year to look at business opportunities at Argyle Diamond Mine. The meetings were held on 10 March and 3 June. The contracts which were reviewed and discussed are listed below under Argyle Contract Opportunities. The new proxies have been invited to attend the meetings this year. The new proxies are Darryl Morgan, Kenneth Rivers, Henry Park and Rebecca Sampi.

The meetings are also an opportunity to share information on what other Business Development Initiatives are occurring in the region such as the Forward In Business Program and the Warmun Micro Regional Economic Development Project. The BDTF is aiming to create a database of equipment in the local communities which is available for short term ad-hoc contracts at the Argyle Diamond Mine. This will allow Argyle to contact local entrepreneurs to dry or wet hire equipment. Bill Richards and Keren Vij have started the process and have visited Wyndham in March. If you have equipment which you would like to include on the database, please contact Keren Vij on 9167 1878 to arrange for an inspection.

Relationship Committee

Norman, Chocolate and George at Relationship Committee Meeting

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Gate list 08 At the Relationship Committee meeting in May, Dawang groups got together to update the Gate list for 2008, for Argyle Diamond mine access to country.

Goodbye to Alan Tietzel At the Relationship Committee meeting in May, Argyle's Alan Tietzel said goodbye to the Traditional Owners as he announced that he was leaving Argyle. Alan is going to work for Rio Tinto Aluminium in Darwin. During the Agreement making process, Alan became known to many of us as he led the Argyle team through the negotiations. He recently recalled how difficult some of those days were for everyone but even after some long days of negotiating, relationships were built that are still strong today. The co-chair of the Relationship Committee, Tim O'Neill, thanked Alan for his long contribution to the Argyle Participation Agreement from negotiation through to implementation. Tim also said that Alan has been a great champion for the Traditional Owners of the Argyle lease area within the business, the community and government. We wish Alan good luck in his new job in the Territory and thank him for his great efforts in helping to build a strong agreement and look forward to seeing him back in the East Kimberley from time to time.

What’s coming up for the Trusts

Gelganyem Trust

19th July 2008

Exhibition of childrens photography for Youth Wellbeing Project with Neil Drew and the team from Notre Dame. To be held in Wyndham.

29th July 2008 (to be confirmed) TO site visit to be held at Argyle Diamond Mine to speak about the revegetation trails.

6th or 7th August 2008 (to be confirmed) Gelganyem Youth Council meeting to be held at ADM or Warmun.

25th-27th August 2008 Gelganyem Trust Meeting to be held at Parrys Creek Farm.

1st-2nd September 2008 Relationship Committee Meeting.

Kilkayi Trust Chris will be at Warmun Monday Tuesday KununurraWednesday, Thursday, Friday September ORIC Governance training workshops for all Dawang Corporations that receive Kilkayi Annual Plan Funds. Dates to be confirmed. Any projects for Dawang speak to Chris Garston.

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Jobs for Gelganyem Trust

Trainee Executive Officer

Salary Package Range $90,000—$110,000

Gelganyem Trust is committed to employing local

Indigenous workers for their Executive office and is currently looking for a local Trainee Executive Officer to work in the RPM team to develop the set of skills

necessary to manage both trusts.

The Executive Officer role is a management position and the Trainee will be expected to have strong

administration skills and ideally have a degree, be working towards obtaining a degree or have strong administration experience and the potential to move into this management role. This is a full time position

based in Kununurra and a salary package will be negotiated in the range 0f $90,000—$110,000,

commensurate with the skills of the person appointed for the trainee period and when the person assumes

the Executive Officer role. The appointee will be required to complete a six month probation period and after successful completion of this, a contract for 2-5

years will be negotiated.

Application packs are available from Rick Downie, Project Manager Gelganyem Trust,

[email protected]. Applications close 30th July 2008.

Any enquiries can be directed to Rick Downie on 91692651 or 0417951701.

Trainee Administration/Bookkeeper

Gelaganyem Tust is committed to Employing local indigenous people

This is a full time trainee position based in Kununurra and a salary package will be negotiated commensurate with the skills of the person appointed for the trainee period. To be advertised.

Upcoming Conferences

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE Darwin – September 15th – 19th ABORIGINAL ENTERPRISES IN MINING EXPLORATION AND ENERGY CONFERENCE Darwin – September 18th – 19th For more information about these conferences contact Rick at Executive Office on 91692651 or Keren Vij from ADM on 91681878.

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