Throughout February and March last year, Bundiyarra, with support from the City of Greater Geraldton, held Come yarn with us community consultation sessions every Wednesday for community to tell us what they wanted from the plans and projects Bundiyarra aimed to achieve throughout 2015.

* These sessions saw great attendance and enthusiasm, and the results from the consultations were consolidated into a strategic plan. Some deadly achievements were celebrated last year. These included installation of the mural at the Radio Theatre on Marine Terrace, Geraldton, telling the story of Aunty Joan Gray’s mother, Alice Nannup, giving the local kids a dressing down about racism in the 1950s. Thanks to the City of Greater Geraldton for funding this project.

* Camp Gallipoli was held at Bundiyarra in April, in conjunction with the City of Greater Geraldton; a special night of remembrance, entertainment and fun honouring the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli 100 years before and recognising the part Aboriginal servicemen played in the battle.

* Bundiyarra’s IT guru, Dwayne Smith, was named 2014 Vocational Student of the Year across all four of Durack Institute of Technology’s campuses and Administration Coordinator Kathleen Nelly was the proud recipient of three scholarships to study at Durack Institute of Technology. She completed a Certificate IV in digital media
technologies last year.

* The Bundiyarra - Irra Wangga Language Centre enjoyed some deadly achievements too. They launched the Nhanda Alphabet Poster at Kalbarri in April. The poster was created by the language centre as a resource to preserve the disappearing Nhanda language, with the invaluable help of Nhanda woman, Colleen Drage and her father, Clayton Drage. Then came the launch of the highly regarded Wajarri Dictionary App, created and produced by Bundiyarra’s marketing arm and the Bundiyarra - Irra Wangga Language Centre.

* The Language Centre hosted three university work experience students over the year, giving them a rare opportunity to experience work in such an environment. Sinosteel Midwest Corporation agreed to sponsor printing the second edition of the Wajarri Dictionary - that was 25 years’ in the creation.

Thumbs up for Bundiyarra in Last Years Achievements.