Barkly Shire Draft Business Plan
22 APRIL 2008
The release of this Draft Business Plan for represents a major milestone in the transformation of local government in the Barkly Region and for local and regional governance more generally. Read more
Barkly Shire Council
22 APRIL 2008
The Tennant Creek Town Council will be dissolved on 30 June 2008 to make way for the Barkly Shire Council. Read more
The town of Tennant Creek sits between the tropical Top End of Katherine and the arid Red Centre of Alice Springs.
Around nine Aboriginal groups call the area home, including the Warumungu, Walpiri, Kaiditch and Alyawarr people.
According to Warumungu legend, the town of Tennant Creek grew up around the home of a spiky tailed goanna called Nyinkka - a powerful ancestral being.
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