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Born: Established: Western Australia, ;
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'One Arm Point Remote Community School is a K-11 school located 200km north of Broome on the Dampier Peninsular. Of the school's approximately 100 students, 95 per cent are Indigenous...The school won a 2008 Partnership, Acceptance, Learning, Sharing Award for its commitment to community partnerships.'

Source: Dare to Lead website http://www.daretolead.edu.au/servlet/Web?s=169694&p=STORY_One_Arm_Point_WA (Sighted: 10/11/2010)

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y separately published work icon Our World : Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon Broome : Magabala Books , 2010 Z1727607 2010 anthology autobiography children's (taught in 3 units) 'Ardiyooloon is home to the Bardi Jaawi people and sits at the end of a red dirt road at the top of the Dampier Peninsula, 200km north of Broome in the north-west of Western Australia. Also known as One Arm Point, the community is surrounded on three sides by the saltwater that plays such an integral part in the people's lives. Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon takes readers inside the lives of the children of a remote Indigenous community. Source: www.magabala.com (Sighted 24/11/2010).
2011 winner Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Best Book for Language Development – Indigenous Children
2011 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
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