Kalkarindji Community Health Centre

478km south west of Katherine along the Buntine Highway. It lies in the head waters of the Victoria River.

Category:

258 (approximately 60 non-Aboriginal)

Gurindji, Walpiri and English.

Via Katherine: approximately 5 hours (~785km from Darwin).
The Buntine Highway is sealed from Victoria Highway to Kalkarindji.

Kalkarindji is the traditional home of the Gurindji people who achieved Australia's first recognition of an Aboriginal land claim when they were handed back 3,200 sq km of Wave Hill station in 1975. Kalkarindji has a health service consisting of a resident GP and health team run by Katherine West Health Board as part of the Katherine West Coordinated Care Trial

To Darwin: approximately 2 hours
To Katherine: 1hour 40 min
There are 3 mail planes each week. Passengers can travel on the Tuesday and Thursday flights.

Daguragu (8km from Kalkarindji), Mistake Creek, Inverway, Mt Maiyu, Liku, McDonald’s Yard, Bunda, Limbunya, Killarney, Riveren, Birindudu, Wave Hill Station, Mt Sanford, Montejinni, Top Springs, Nelson Springs, Kirkimbie, Camfield, McCillarney, Gilnochie and Birrimbu

Kalkarindji Community Health Centre
PMB 107
Kalkarindji
Via Katherine NT 0852

Phone: 08 8975 0785  Fax: 08 8975 0792

Service station, school, police station, store, caravan park, takeaway food shop, Women's centre. CDEP scheme functioning

Patrick Carney (November 2000)
The Facilities are quite basic. The store sells a reasonable range of different tinned and packaged foods with a limited supply of fresh vegetables. A delivery arrives every Tuesday and this is the best time to buy fresh veggies and milk. The food is not cheap but affordable for most packaged goods. Kalkarindji Meat Supplies provide beef and occasionally other meat at cheap prices and with home delivery. Food can also be ordered from Katherine Woolworth's on (08) 89 723 055. This is delivered on Tuesdays.
Take-away meals are available at the shop. The club is open 5 nights a week from 5 to 8pm and Saturdays from 1 to 5pm. They have meals most nights, however the club can be a bit rough particularly on weekends and pay night and often closes if there is trouble in town or for cultural reasons.
Kalkarindji is an excellent spot for carrying out an elective in remote and Aboriginal health. The clinic is well run with supportive staff and there is a great variety of medical and social problems you are likely to encounter. The local landscape is beautiful and there are swimming holes within walking distance from the town. There may also be opportunities to visit other communities and cattle stations