(Transcript from World News Australia Radio)
There are hopes that a new learning centre in the isolated Aboriginal township of Willowra in the Northern Territory will provide a model example of community involvement in education.
Traditional Warlpiri land owners from the Central Australian region, through the Warlpiri Education and Training Trust, or WETT, have contributed $600,000 worth of mining royalty money towards the project.
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The Aboriginals Benefit Account provided $2.6-million and it will be run by the Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education through a regional partnership with the Central Land Council, WETT and the Federal Government.
Director of the Batchelor Institute Adrian Mitchell says the involvement of the Willowra community 330 kms north-east of Alice Springs will be vital to the centre's success.
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