Maningrida Health Centre

On the Central Arnhem coast at the mouth of the Liverpool River. 250km west of Nhulunbuy and 352km east of Darwin

Approximately 1327 plus 525 on outstations (approximately 150 non Aboriginals

Mabarnard/Djukurridji, Kunbarlang, Nakkara, Burarra, Kuninjku, Gorrgon, Djinang Gupapuyngu. (13 major language groups)

About 4 hours drive from Oenpelli depending on the state of the road. Around 6 - 10 hours (500km) from Darwin (3 hours sealed road between Darwin to East Alligator then 3-7 hours unsealed road on to Maningrida).

To Darwin: From 50 minutes to 1.5 hours (some planes that do the milk run take 3 hours).

A town on the eastern bank of the Liverpool River estuary in Arnhem Land. It began in 1949 as a trading post established by the Northern Territory administration's welfare branch, at which time 60 people from the area who had moved to Darwin were repatriated. The name of the settlement, at an old Macassan well, means 'the watering place'. After being destroyed in a cyclone, the post was abandoned, but it was re-established in 1957 because more and more people of the area were migrating to Darwin.

As an outstation movement gained strength in the 1970s, the town council established an outstation resource centre. This operated mobile stores, provided workshop and communications facilities, offered a wholesale outlet for art and craft production, and helped support outstation schools.
By the mid-80s the town itself was well supplied with urban amenities, including an administrative centre, supermarket school with 200 students enrolled, health centre, church, 116 multi-room houses and standard utilities like reticulated electricity, water and sewerage. As the large outstation population indicates, however, many people with Maningrida links prefer life in their bush settlements.
The traditional owners of the Maningrida area are the Gunibidji, although people from a number of different Arnhem Land groups also live there now, including Burarra, Djinang, Eastern Kunwinjku, Gunnartpa, Gupapuyngu, Gurrgoni, Kunbarlang, Nakkara, Rembarrnga and Wurlaki .

Not accessible in the wet season by road. Usually by air.

Between 20-30 depending on season. There is a high seasonal and social mobility between Maningrida, outstations and surrounding communities.

Police station, post office, banking agency, airline agency. store/bakery, Arts Centre, primary and continuing education centre, mechanical workshop and takeaway food store.

Burarra Gathering

http://burarra.questacon.edu.au/pages/welcome.html

Maningrida Arts & Culture

www.maningrida.com/mac/ab_us.php