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Greetings All, It is with great sadness I announce that Johanna Ward has stepped down from her role as ARDS CEO effective from 25 September 2019. Jo has served ARDS well over the past four years and has left the organisation in a very strong position. With the support of the ARDS board, please…

ARDS and Yolŋu Radio continue to be popular topics for the media, with NITV’s The Point show featuring Yolŋu Radio. The NITV crew spent a day with us in the Nhulunbuy studio prior to Garma and Sylvia Nulpinditj, Adam Waṉambi and Michael Hunter did a fantastic job flying the flag for us.Not to be outdone,…

Yolŋu Radio has been very busy recently. In addition to our work at the Garma Festival, Yolŋu Radio produced two special NAIDOC Week programs on the 2019 NAIDOC Week theme “Treaty, Truth, Justice”. Funded through the Australian Government’s NAIDOC Week program, in one case Yolŋu Radio reporters spoke…

ARDS team member Aung Si and local language consultants Isobel Lami Lami and Ronnie Waraludj are continuing their vital Iwaidja and Marrku languages preservation work in Minjilang on Croker Island. They are producing a lot of great learning material, including video and audio recordings of traditional…

Some of our team members attended the epic Puliima Language and Technology conference at the Darwin Convention Centre in August. Puliima brought together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language workers from around Australia to share workshop sessions and presentations, including an ARDS presentation…