Blogs from Nullagine, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
Wiluna, Nullagine and Marble Bar
Published: November 1st 2009Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Nullagine
October 31st 2009
We have been contracted by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation to distribute laptops to the communities of Wiluna and Nullagine. OLPC is an international charity originating in the USA founded by Nicholas Negroponte with the objective to supply basic ICT equipment to disadvantaged children throughout the world with the aim of improving literacy. In Australia the disadvantage is isolation, it just happens that these communities are mainly indigenous. Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory were the first to receive the laptops, now WA is being targeted. Rawa was a pilot school and on Monday, 19th Oct Kiwirrkurra on the WA/NT border was used to launch the scheme. We are now continuing this deployment with Wiluna on the 20th and Nullagine on the 26th October. We left Perth on the 18th October towing the caravan, ... read more
June 27th 2009
Nullagine 21-27th June After a leisurely drive we arrived in Nullagine about lunch time which gave us plenty of time to set up camp at the Nullagine Tourist Park. Although we’d met the managers previously we found them quite abrupt. When we commented about the small size of the caravan site we were told “ If you don’t like it perhaps Mitchell can find you somewhere else!” Mitchell is the new principal at Nullagine Remote Community School. After lunch we wandered across the road to catch up with Mitchell and found him at the school. He told us Dianne would sort out a timetable for us the next morning at school and left us to check our email. The following morning we arrived at the school to find the teacher of the Year 3-7 on sick ... read more
