the barkly

This Friday marks the 45th anniversary of the Tennant Creek Show. Hear from Show Society Secretarty Shelagh Walsh about all the fun planned for Barkly this year!

Barkly Regional Council CEO Chris Kelly joins 8CCC's Big Brekky Program to discuss his resignation from the formerly embattled council and the handing over of interim duties to current Director of Community Services Susan Steele.

Hear from Barkly MLA The Hon Steve Edgington about the impact of last week's budget estimates on residents in the region.

Former ABC journalist Kirsty Nancarrow is coming to Tennant Creek to host an author talk at the library about her debut novel 'Himalayan Dreams: The Story of Som Tamang – How a child slave moved mountains to save a generation in Nepal'.

Red Cross are bringing a Women's Health Night to Tennant Creek this June 21, providing a safe space for women of the Barkly to seek medical advice and better understand how to access health resources.

The Hon Steve Edgington joins the Big Brekky Program live from the Tennant Creek studio to respond to Barkly Regional Council Sid Vashist's comments on Monday's program regarding legislative and structural reforms to local governments.

Darwin Symphony Orchestra is travelling to Tennant Creek to collaboratively launch and celebrate the Warumungu Children's Album titled 'Singing for Our Little Ones' in the Barkly Regional Arts yard. Important Warumungu knowledge and language keepers, Marlene Plummer, Rosemary Plummer and Miriam Frank visit 8CCC's Barkly Studio to tell us about the making of the album. 

Earlier this year Barkly Regional Arts announced they’d received funding through Regional Arts Australia to deliver a series of art workshops for the Tennant Creek public and this weekend it kicks off in fine form with a two-day Batik Workshop.Chris Ng is the multimedia artist from Alice Springs who will be travelling up the Stuart to deliver the workshops and they join us now on the Big Brekky Program.

Strap up your knees and lace up your sneakers—Parkrun, the international weekly timed 5km running phenomenon, is coming to the Barkly! Mary Kingham-Bradley, one of two women working tirelessly behind the scenes to make it happen, joins us on the Big Brekky Program to share the happy news. 

Darcy Davis spoke to the Brekky Show from the highway back to Mparntwe, about the superb performance by UPK Allstars at WOMAD on the weekend. Beginning in the 1980s as a way to share important messages to community around health and education, UPK is a multi-generational music project based in the APY lands. UPK Allstars is a collection of artists who have featured on their seven albums of original songs in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara language.

8CCC Big Brekky Show spoke with Dr John Boffa, a GP and the public health medical officer for Congress as well as the spokesperson for the People’s Alcohol Action Coalition reform group. Dr Boffa is here to discuss the ramifications of the NT Government’s move to scrap the minimum floor price of alcohol, despite the latest data that supports its continuation.

Shauna Upton, 8CCC’s Barkly Radio Coordinator, spoke with the Hon Steve Edgington, Member for Barkly on the Big Brekky Program...