Shared Responsibility Agreements

Shared Responsibility Agreement

The Aboriginal community in Brewarrina want to overcome their isolation by more regular contact with groups outside the town. They also want venues for healthy family activities.

Brewarrina is part of the Murdi Paaki COAG trial, and the community has already signed two SRAs, addressing school attendance issues and homemaker skills for women.

These two further SRAs are providing a community bus for transport of sports teams and community groups, and two parks (at Barwon Four and Brewarrina West). The parks will have seating, BBQs and shaded areas for community/family outings.

The community will provide lockable storage for the bus, devise and enforce bus travel rules, and develop a hire schedule for use of the bus covering the costs of petrol, drivers and maintenance.

The community will continue the clean up of community areas, and hold regular sporting and social activities on the oval.

Community members have committed to driver training and regular cleaning and maintenance of the bus. They will also contribute time and resources to camping/cultural trips and safe sporting activities.

Residents, either as volunteers or CDEP workers, will build and maintain the parks, and hold community activities there. They will remove litter and work to prevent vandalism.

The Australian Government is funding purchase of the bus and the upgrade of the parks including the installation of irrigation.

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Key Facts

Regional town 810 km W of Sydney on Barwon-Darling River

Indigenous community NW of Grafton

Population:

1000, the majority Indigenous

Focus of the SRA:

Access and transport; community facilities

What the SRA provides:

Community bus; parks

ICC:

Bourke

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