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- Establishment of Irrunytju Media Association
- Irrunytju Region BRACS AND BRS EXPENDITURE BRS
- BRACS
- REVITALISATION EQUIPMENT EXPENDITURE Standard equipment supplied to communities 1995-97
- IRRUNYTJU Other names
- Office fax
- TRANSPORT
- TRANSMISSION : Good Television : (3)
Report Meetings Our attempted regional meeting of community representatives at Warburton in September 1997 was not well attended (only six Warburton residents and the chairman of Mantamaru, Burt Lang), due to the short notice change of venue with the proximity of ceremonial business at Irrunytju. I did at least catch up with Noli and Belle at Irrunytju, visited five other communities en route and met with seven Community Development Advisors (CDAs) at Warakurna. Current Situation Only three communities (Irrunytju, Warburton and Cosmo Newberry) are currently broadcasting at all regularly, three others (Kiwirrkurra, Tjukurla and Tjuntjuntjara) have done so sporadically in the past, but like the remaining six, they are still awaiting installation of BRS equipment before broadcasters are employed and training programmes can commence. Only two of the original three gazetted BRACS units receive ATSIC recurrent funds, and the Kalgoorlie office, while supporting the extension of Revitalisation capital infrastructure funding to the other nine communities, have warned that these will have to rely on CDEP wages and on costs for their operational needs. Meetings need to be held in all communities to increase awareness of what can be done with community media and establish grassroots support and direction for its local development. Noli Roberts has been the main spokesman for this cause, speaking at Ngaanyatjarra Council meetings and contacting key people in the communities. According to Noli, community interest and commitment to the development of media programmes in the communities is still strong throughout the region, despite the delays in installation of the infrastructure necessary to get them up and running. Establishment of Irrunytju Media Association Noli and his brother were members of PY Media’s governing committee from 1989 and invited the EVTV crew to record a western segment of “Tjukurpa Kungkarangkalpatjara” (the Seven Sisters Dreaming) at Kuruala, 180 km southwest of Irrunytju in 1990, and again in co-production with CAAMA for “Satellite Dreaming” in 1991. As in Ernabella, it was the strength of senior custodians’ resolve to adapt new media to the recording and transmission of traditional performance arts (“inma”) and story (“tjukurpa”) that provided the initial impetus for establishment of the media project and its ongoing community credibility - and the support of a “whitefella” co-ordinator (Ruth Raintree, in this case) to procure funding and administer it for them. Irrunytju Media started up regular broadcast, production and training for themselves with a DEET grant of $67,852 in 1991/2. Apart from a couple of hiccups, they have maintained employment of a co-ordinator / trainer since 1992/3. They now boast some of the best BRACS studio facilities in the country, taking up a large part of the Community Office building, which was new in 1994, with an office, a library and storeroom with separate cameras and lockable cabinets for men’s and women’s gender exclusive video recordings, a radio studio, a video edit room, a TV studio and access to the council meeting room for large screen community viewing. As in other BRACS co-ordination units, especially in Central Australia, the success or otherwise of regional media training and development depends to too great an extent on the suitability of a single, usually non-indigenous, individual who needs to be extraordinarily culturally sensitive, patient and non-self-assertive, but also a good communicator and tough to appropriately fill their role. Irrunytju Media clearly identify these requirements in Council approved policy documents - “Policy for salaried staff employed to resource the media program” and “Guidelines for appropriate use of media resources with sensitive cultural content”. (Irrunytju Media 1996) Irrunytju Media Association is not incorporated, nor even a formal association, let alone a regionally representative one. BRS and other regional media funds go through an Irrunytju Community Inc. account and are administered by the CDA. This has been a convenient and efficient arrangement to date, but will most likely at some stage need to be moved onto a more formal and representative structural base, as other communities approach parity of operations and demand equity in regional media decision making processes. Local Management All communities employ Community Development Advisors (CDAs), usually non-indigenous, who wield near absolute managerial power over community administration. Many of them, in the absence of existing infrastructure or community experience of broadcasting, understandably regard the development of BRACS services as “just extra work for us to do”. Due to various unavoidable delays in the implementation of the Revitalisation programme, equipment only started to be purchased from late 1996 and much of it has yet to be installed in suitable buildings, at a time when community budgets are shrinking and it is becoming more and more of a struggle to maintain essential services to such small, isolated communities. Without demonstrable evidence of its potential or any local operating budget, and with only one trainer based at Irrunytju to give training support to twelve communities, the BRS must appear to many CDAs to be an excessive capital expenditure on an idealistic, unsustainable entertainment luxury that has been foisted on them, will only waste their precious time, compete for scarce building space, workers, money and resources, and may disrupt the transmission of mainstream satellite services on which they depend. Certainly administrators are right to be concerned that proper ongoing support be forthcoming before they embark on new community projects and that the community be properly informed and give it their full support. The Irrunytju CDA, Ruth Raintree, and successive Irrunytju Media co-ordinators have done their best to convince them of the community benefits that can accrue with local broadcast and production, and at our meeting with them there seemed to be a general, if cautious, commitment to support the BRS implementation and establish CDEP media work projects in their communities. Infrastructure BRS funding has supplied radio and TV studio equipment at Kiwirrkurra, Tjukurla, Warakurna (waiting for the old office to be made into a media centre), Irrunytju and Tjuntjuntjara (waiting to be set up in the old office), and TV equipment for Warburton, Tjirrkali, Cosmo Newberry (+small radio set-up), Coonana, Blackstone and Wanarn (both waiting for a building). Funds for 1997/8 have been committed for radio and TV equipment for Mantamaru (dependent on relocation to old office), radio studio equipment for Tjirrkarli, Cosmo, Coonana (they may leave this until there are some trainees), Blackstone and Wanarn (both dependent on more consultation) and phone links for all the radio studios. Technical Support This region is the only one which has a technician, Dennis Pease, from Wyalkatchem, on a regular six monthly transmission maintenance contract, a service provided by the Ngaanyatjarraku Shire. Communities are expected to pay for any repairs required from their CDEP on costs, but ATSIC Kalgoorlie Regional Office are now asking Irrunytju Media to fund these costs from their national BRS grant. It certainly makes sense to administer regular technical support on a regional basis if provision can be made for it, rather than relying on a few irregular BRS installation or expensive one-off emergency call out visits as BRACS communities have generally been obliged to do, especially if it could be appropriately combined with some ongoing technical training for operators on the job. Training Training has been ongoing and continuous at Irrunytju since 1993 according to a comprehensive self-devised set of competency based modules. Twenty-seven or more videos, mostly of traditional dance performances and festivals, have been produced and are sold locally or hired for $2 a night. Regular radio schedules have generally been maintained, though Ngaanyatjara journalism, radio production and broadcast presentation skills have yet to be developed much beyond ad hoc community announcement and music CD disk jockey functions. Several workshops have also been delivered by the IMA trainer at Warburton, Blackstone, Cosmo Newberry and Tjukurla since 1995. Four or five newsletters have been issued (by the co-ordinators). The $36,600 (plus $2,978 district allowance) salary of Irrunytju’s current co-ordinator / trainer, Renee Romeril, is drawn wholly from BRS funds in 1997/8 now that DEET, CTP or other ATSIC Regional Council funds are no longer available. Irrunytju Media are saving for a new vehicle to replace their existing Troopcarrier, bought from 1990/91 CDEP funds, but still have a shortfall of $17-18,000. Three Irrunytju broadcasters, Noli, Belle Davidson and Ivy Laidlaw, and Mel Porter from Tjukurla have completed the Batchelor College BRACS Certificate, and new students from the region are enrolling to commence in July 1998. As in other regions, Irrunytju Media would like to be adequately resourced to deliver initial accredited training workshops as well as supplementary on the job production support in the communities themselves. It is obviously an impossible task for one circuit trainer to adequately deliver workshops in 12 communities. There is a newly established vocational training centre, the Ngaanyatjarraku College at Warburton, which was granted training provider status in September 1997, and although initial discussions with the administrator, Bill Warnock, have not yet borne fruit, there is still a possibility that the college could co-deliver the Batchelor Certificate Course (which has now been re-accredited for national delivery) with Irrunytju Media, and seek funding through W.A. Department of Training (WADOT) for at least one more circuit trainer to be based at Warburton. They would also need a vehicle to deliver on-site training to the communities. Accommodation is a problem for lecturers (and students attending workshops) in Warburton - funding is being sought for a dormitory. Whatever the eventual outcome of this proposal, Irrunytju Media need at least one extra trainer immediately, on the radio side especially, for training delivery to expand with the current installation of new broadcast studios and the potential development of a Ngaanyatjarra radio network. I would recommend that if no other training funding can be found, that the national funds for 1998/99 be stretched to cover an additional trainer’s salary in preference to further capital development. Networking The establishment of a radio network in the region depends on the availability of phonelines which are currently at a premium (only room for two new customers in the whole region!) with the apparent indefinite postponement of Telstra’s rollout of optic fibre from near Amata in S.A. to Kalgoorlie. Ngaanyatjarra communities could initially piggyback a regional service on Radio 5PY on the Imparja satellite transponder, (some retransmit CAAMA Radio currently), but would prefer to establish their own network in the future. Noli Roberts is currently participating in PY Media’s radio training programme at 5UV in Adelaide and trial broadcasts on 5PY have been very well received in Irrunytju. This is “the last frontier” for BRACS and nowhere is the challenge greater, but if the strong co-ordination base at Irrunytju is maintained and additional training support can be found, the next couple of years should see exciting developments in indigenous media services throughout this region. Irrunytju Region BRACS AND BRS EXPENDITURE BRS
BRACS - Regional Council
REVITALISATION EQUIPMENT EXPENDITURE Standard equipment supplied to communities 1995-97
IRRUNYTJU Other names : Wingellina Co-ordinator / trainer : Renee Romeril BRACS Operators : Noel Roberts (Noli) - senior BRACS worker Belle Davidson, Linda Davidson, Maisie Nelson, Noelene Cameron Chairman : Stanley Mervin Administrator : Ruth Raintree BRACS phone : 08 8956 7307 Office phone : 08 8956 7566 Office fax : 08 8956 7514 Postal Address : PMB 52, via Alice Springs, NT 0872 LOCATION : Approx. 10kms from the Surveyor General’s corner (corner of WA, SA & NT in WA.) ATSIC Region : Warburton (Western Desert Regional Council) Austmap reference : Zone 52 - Easting 493000 - Northing 7117000 POPULATION : Indig - 165 Non Indig - 14 Total - 179 TRANSPORT : Road, Ngaanyatjarra Air $224 o/w to A/Springs LANGUAGES : Pitjantjatjara / Ngaanyatjarra Broadcast : Pitjantjatjara / Ngaanyatjarra BRACS LOCATION : Major part of Community Office (new in 1994) Building: 6 rooms - office, store & library, radio studio, video edit room, TV studio, viewing room TRANSMISSION : Good Television : (3) ABC / BRACS 66 GWN 69 Imparja 63 Radio : (2) ABC 105.9 BRACS 106.1 CAAMA 102.9 Service Licence Nos : TV: 5074 Radio: SL010029 FUNDING :
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