In August 2015, Indigenous Hip Hop Projects (‘IHHP’) teamed up with the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency’s (‘NAAJA’) legal education team to visit Lajamanu for a weeklong intensive workshop to create a Nguchu (‘Good’) legal education music video.
For this project we were fortunate to be guided by the Lajamanu Kurdiji Law and Justice Group. The project brings together the old and the new. The old law men and women have taught and guided their community through both traditional law and contemporary issues. IHHP and NAAJA worked with both old and young people to explore legal themes such as respectful relationships, interacting well with police, domestic violence, resisting peer pressure and joint criminal enterprise.
We were very excited to work with Anton and Sean Simon of the Yatula Yatula Band, and Anton James from the Warnayaka Band, who composed the instrumentation and recorded it live in Lajamanu. We would also like to thank WYDAC (Mt Theo) for their generous support, including providing the recording studio. We would also like to thank the Warnayaka Arts Centre, the Lajamanu School, the Central Desert Shire, the Central Land Council for their kind support.
NAAJA provides legal assistance to Aboriginal people in the Top End. The legal education team has worked with the Kurdiji Law and Justice Group for nearly seven years and meets with them before every court to discuss upcoming matters, including asking elders for offender backgrounds and sentencing suggestions.
25 авг 2015
