1. Mid North Coast Region Presented by: Chris Spencer - Coffs Harbour LALC CEO Jo-Anne Kelly – Kempsey LALC CEO

3. Regional Overview LALC Indigenous PopulationMaleFemaleLALC MembersVotingNon Voting Birpai127862665228920881 Forster556255301350136214 Purfleet/Taree156857115012030 Bunyah4382152231389840 Unkya22310012364568 Kempsey124857866018712661 Nambucca Heads29714615120514362 Coffs Harbour2061984107720711988 Thungutti153718214512718 Bowraville26113212919814652 Karuah172838917911168 - 11 LALCs in region

4. Key Initiatives Regional Aboriginal Development Alliance The alliance crosses over Mid North Coast and North Coast regions Successful Expression of Interest to be selected as a trial Local Decision Making model under OCHRE (based on the CAPO model with special interest groups) Local Decision Making Committees Number of local sites selected as trial bodies.

5. Key Initiatives Forster LALC – Transfer of land to MidCoast Water Agreement reached to sell 1600ha site to government water utility Cultural access rights retained in area First agreement of its kind July 2015 – signing of the agreement

6. Thunghutti LALC Culture and heritage in partnership with NPWS and LLS Housing management outsourced

7. Kempsey LALC – Repatriation Developing plan with Dunghutti Elders Council, Ministry of Arts, OEH and local community Recent trip to Washington DC to return Ancestral remain back to Dunghutti country Another planned trip to Manchester, UK in November 2015 At this stage there are 11 Ancestors to return home

8. Birpai LALC Partnership with Port Macquarie/ Hastings Council Community Gardens

9. Bunyah LALC – Community Benefits Shoe Box appeal Spirit Poles

10. Coffs Harbour LALC – Jaligirr Burrigan Native nursery established to provide native plant supply for natural resource management and native bush regeneration activities

11. Taree/Purfleet LALC 5 people employed in Land management Land Claims on strategic locations

12. Karuah LALC Hawks Nest Development Outreach Services

13. Nambucca Heads LALC Eco Store Gumma IPA Economic development - Art Gallery and coffee shop

14. Play Nambucca Heads LALC video

15. Unkya LALC Tours Unkya LALC is located in Macksville. Unkya LALC has set up a cultural eco-tourism enterprise at Gagaal Wanggaan (South Beach) National Park has been hand back to Gumbaynggirr people of the Nambucca Valley.

16. Play Unkya LALC Tours film

17. Bowraville Memorial A memorial is planned for the victims of the Bowraville murders New Memorial will be opened on 7 September 2015

18. Play Bowraville Memorial video