The website lajaman.com is the digital presence of Lajamanu, a remote Indigenous community located in the Northern Territory of Australia. The site provides extensive information about the community’s culture, history, and contemporary life, along with insights into its social and environmental context. It highlights the significance of Lajamanu’s location in relation to the Warlpiri people, detailing their connection to land, language, and traditions. The site also includes resources related to local governance, education, and community services, reflecting the complex interplay between traditional practices and modern frameworks within the settlement.
Additionally, the website features various multimedia elements such as photographs and maps that underscore the geographic and cultural landscape of Lajamanu. It documents community events and projects that focus on preserving and promoting Warlpiri cultural identity. The content serves as a resource for those interested in Indigenous Australian cultures, remote community life, and the broader issues surrounding land rights, language maintenance, and cultural sustainability in Australia's desert regions.
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Sturt + the inland sea
In 1844 Charles Sturt spent a couple of years looking for the inland sea. In 1827, a former East India Company officer Thomas J. Maslen published this map of that inland sea in his book The Friend of Australia, which provided instructions for surveying and exploring the island-continent’s interior. It was a popular colonial belief that […]
A Flinders creek bed
Early morning light on tree roots of red river gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis,) in Benbibuta Creek in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. They were made whilst I was on a camel trek from Blinman to Lake Frome in 2021. When I came back to looking through this archive in 2025 I realised how the […]
Remembrance?
When I drove through Gawler the other day on my way north I came across this powerful image in a shop window relating to WW1. I sent some time walking around the town: I found it quite disturburing and I was really upset — nay distraught — that there no white poppies in the window […]
Iron Knob
When I made a quick visit to the Eyre Peninsula in late 2023 with Maleko, our standard poodle, we camped overnight at Iron Knob in the Middleback Range. I wanted to spend some time walking around this old mining town to see what was left. I had briefly visited it in passing a decade or […]
Quorn: colonial history + photography
On Wednesday July 27th we cleaned up Nudlamutana hut in the morning, packed the Outback Subaru, and slowly drove to Blinman via the Yunta Road. We had lunch at Blinman — a pastie – -then drove onto Quorn. We stayed in a cabin in the Quorn caravan park and had a pub dinner at the […]
Kingsmill Creek + Arkaroola reef
As it was mentioned in this earlier post we spent the afternoon of our last full day in the semi-arid mountainous landscape of the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park walking in the Kingsmill Creek Gorge. The creek is accessed from the road to the Paralina Hot Springs, which I haven’t been to. We had been to […]
Acacia Ridge + yellowcake
Tuesday July 26th was our last full day of walking in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park. The plan was to make an early start, walk Acacia Ridge, have morning coffee at Arkaroola Village, walk back to the car along the Arkaroola Rd, have lunch amongst the river gums in the creek bed of Kingsmill Creek, then […]
Bararranna Gorge: deep time
Monday (July 25th) was the day of the Bararranna Gorge walk. We had walked the Bararraanna Gorge trail last year. We remembered the various waterholes, the Sturt Desert peas in the creek beds and the rock formations in the gorges. The bushwalking groups deem it to be moderately challenging (C+) and it is a popular […]
Balcanoona Creek
Sunday (24/7/2022) was a rest day from walking.This was to be a large format photography day at Balcanoona Creek in the late afternoon. In the morning we cleaned up Nudlamutana Hut then drove up to Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary for petrol, mobile connection and an ice cream. On the way back we looked for the Ochre Wall on the […]
Italowie Creek Walk
We drove the 30 or so kilometers on the Gammon Ranges Road from the Nudlamutana Hut to the Italowie Gap campsite going past Balcanoona Station and the nearby Echo cliffs. I wandered around the Gap taking photos of the traces of pastoralism before we started the walk to the gorge around 10am. The plan was […]
to Bunyip Chasm
It was a slow drive from the Nudlamutana Hut where we staying to Bunyip Chasm via the Wortupa Loop Track in the Illinawortina Pound in the Subaru Outback . We drove to Grindell’s Hut and then onto Loch Ness Well campground. It took us aroun d 3.5 hours. We then walked up a creekbed (no […]
Interlude: a video
This video was made on the 2021 camel trek to Lake Frome from out starting point at the township of Blinman in South Australia. It was made on the morning of the day that we walked into Mt Chambers Gorge around lunchtime. I made a couple of ‘loading the camel’ videos with my iPhone 6 […]
Mt Warren Hastings
The first day we decided to do the Oppaminda-Nudlamutana trail as it started near the Nudlamutana Hut where we were staying for the week. We decided to walk this trail to Mt Warren Hastings where we would have our lunch, and then return to the hut. We chose to do a linear walk along a […]
Blinman
We returned to walking in the northern Flinders Ranges in the winter of 2022. This time we would be on our own both in terms of accommodation at Nudlamutana Hut and walking the various trails in the Vulkathunha – Gammon Ranges National Park and the Arkaroola Wildlife Sanctuary. We stayed overnight in a motel style […]
Brachina Gorge
On our last full day in the southern Flinders Ranges we drove through Brachina Gorge which runs through the Heysen Range towards Lake Torrens. We started from the Blinman Hawker Rd, exited on the road to Parachilna + Leigh Creek, then returned to Hawker via the Moralana Gorge Rd through the Elder Range in the […]
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monique in hellendoorn
I have been asked to make an installation for a two-year project titled "Moving and Landing" in (and around) the House of Culture and Administration in Nijverdal, district of Hellendoorn (the Netherlands). On this weblog, I'm writing about this project in Dutch (which is the language spoken in the district of Hellendoorn).
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