A NUMBER OF GOALS identified through consultation and community feedback have been incorporated into the FATSIL 2003-2005 Strategic Plan, which was endorsed at the Governing Committee meeting in December 2002.

The Strategic Plan and the more task specific 2003 Operational Plan, are proving useful for the committee in setting action plans and achieving record outcomes through Governing Committee meetings.

Bonnie Deegan with Bonnie Sturt, holding ngurnungurnu, a plant that smells like apples when the leaves are crushed.

By Janelle White

IT'S 43° C and we're sitting in a riverbed under the shade of malarn (red river gums) and lambu (paperbarks). Stan Brumby is preparing a barndu (water monitor) for lunch and the women are fishing.This is Stan's home, he grew up on Lamboo Station, just south of Old Halls Creek.

Doris Ryder of the Jot Language Group collecting delicious borlabi (bush coconuts) for lunch.

"Maintaining the Links: Language, Identity and the Land"

Broome, Western Australia, September 22nd - 24th 2003