Comments on: Crikey – 4 October 2007 http://tiwiislands.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/crikey-4-october-2007/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:46:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: tiwiccbb http://tiwiislands.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/crikey-4-october-2007/#comment-27 tiwiccbb Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:22:36 +0000 http://tiwiislands.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/crikey-4-october-2007/#comment-27 Poor Nikkki... Maybe Great Southern don't like you no more... No backpackers planting at the special "a 184 acres Maxwell Creek"? , where soon with funding via the ABA and thru the Nguiu TO's payment for leasing Nguiu for 99 years, 6 Tiwi people will be funded to "help plant" the 184 acres of noxious plantation for Great Southern. Please see below... Tiwi elders, plantation company sign jobs deal ABC ONLINE Posted Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:46pm AEDT An organisation has been set up on the Tiwi Islands to help line Indigenous workers up with jobs on the island's timber plantations. A memorandum of understanding was today signed between Tiwi Island elders and Great Southern Plantations to place local workers in planting jobs on the company's acacia plantations. In the first stage, six workers will come from Pirlangimpi on Melville Island to help plant a 184 acres at Maxwell Creek. Great Southern says in the past backpackers were brought over from Darwin to do the work, but it's hoped in time Tiwi Islanders will fully replace them. Tiwi Enterprises has partly been setup using money paid to traditional owners of Nguiu on Bathurst Island for signing a 99-year lease agreement. Poor Nikkki… Maybe Great Southern don’t like you no more… No backpackers planting at the special “a 184 acres Maxwell Creek”? , where soon with funding via the ABA and thru the Nguiu TO’s payment for leasing Nguiu for 99 years, 6 Tiwi people will be funded to “help plant” the 184 acres of noxious plantation for Great Southern. Please see below…

Tiwi elders, plantation company sign jobs deal
ABC ONLINE

Posted Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:46pm AEDT

An organisation has been set up on the Tiwi Islands to help line Indigenous workers up with jobs on the island’s timber plantations.

A memorandum of understanding was today signed between Tiwi Island elders and Great Southern Plantations to place local workers in planting jobs on the company’s acacia plantations.

In the first stage, six workers will come from Pirlangimpi on Melville Island to help plant a 184 acres at Maxwell Creek.

Great Southern says in the past backpackers were brought over from Darwin to do the work, but it’s hoped in time Tiwi Islanders will fully replace them.

Tiwi Enterprises has partly been setup using money paid to traditional owners of Nguiu on Bathurst Island for signing a 99-year lease agreement.

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