Yula-Punaal Education & Healing Aboriginal Corporation

05/12/2025

A Dedication to Aunty Louise Campbell 🙏🏾🙌🏽🙏🏾

In a world where greatness is often measured by humanitarian impact, power, and wealth, some individuals redefine success.👣🙌🏽

Aunty Louise Campbell, an extraordinary woman, exemplifies selflessness, dedication, and service to others. She stood for so many things.⚖️👩🏽‍⚖️

A remarkable woman, Aunty Louise hs left an indelible mark on all who knew her. From an early age, she displayed compassion and a desire to make a difference. This empathy shaped her path and led her to become a beacon of hope for many. 👣

As a young woman, a member of the stolen generation, she embarked on a journey of self-discovery, seeking knowledge and wisdom to better serve her community. Education was her key to unlocking doors of opportunity for herself and others. She became a teacher, mentor, and leader, shaping the minds of future generations, regardless of race, gender, or her Catholic faith.

With compassion and resilience, she ventured into law, politics, the United Nations, native title, land rights, and social justice. 🙌🏽⚖️🙌🏽

Louise is one of the founding members of Yula-Punaal Education and Healing Aboriginal Corporation. Along with Tammy and Victor Wright, they secured a 50-acre property in 2003 at the foot of the Wattagan Mountains.

Louise and Tammy achieved much together, from speaking at state, national, and international forums to their love of travel and their efforts to make a difference in a controlling western world.
Louise’s voice and recognition will live on through Tammy as her voice in Yula-Punaal, the Catholic, Awabakal, and Darkinjung communities. 🖤🥰❤️

Louise’s dedication to community-led initiatives and advocacy has brought lasting change, empowering many. Her unwavering commitment inspires all who have worked with her.
Let’s honour Louise’s remarkable life by emulating her compassion, resilience, and service. 🙏🏾❤️

Let’s strive to make a difference in others’ lives, just as she did. Her legacy will forever be etched in communitiwa far and wide, especially in Aboriginal communities, and her impact will continue for generations.

We will miss her physical presence, but we know she will be with us in spirit. May we have comfort knowing she is with her family in the Dreaming and may she rest in peace. 🙏🏾🖤🥰❤️🙏🏾

Barang Regional Alliance
Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Services
Awabakal Land Council
Awabakal Ltd
Catholic Schools of Maitland-Newcastle

31/10/2025

We are very grateful to have hosted our local women's group on Country. 🫶🏾🌱🤎

21/10/2025

📢See you in 3 days! 🤎🌱🫶🏾

Thank you to all our Deadly community for registering to attend our Yula-Punaal Education & Healing Aboriginal Corporation NAIDOC on Country.

We are looking forward to sharing culture with you all, please bring along a chair or picni matt🪑👌🏾

21/10/2025

Hosting our deadly Guyung Minig on Country! 🫶🏾🌱🤎

18/10/2025

18/10/2025

As we come into Spring, new life is beginning 🪾🪴🌾
And add a rainbow 🌈 or two.

Our fingerlimes are in abundant and are looking great!

Yula-Punaal has a new garden with a range of native plants, flowers and fruits. We also have an influx of our native bee, helping with the pollination.

18/10/2025

Yula-Punaal implemented the third round of our On-Country Vacation Care program during the second week of the school holidays. 👧🏾🧒🏽👦🏻👩🏻 👦🏼👩🏾👧🏼

The children participated in their first First Aid workshop, which focused on the protocol for 🐍snake bites. While the kids found it entertaining, they also grasped the seriousness of the workshop, its purpose, and intent.

Cultural activities included Songlines, working with clay and ochre, making damper, fried scones, and lemon 🌱myrtle cake. Our children collaborated on a project using stringy bark to create a bark canoe and added coconut palm leaves to the Gunyah using stringy bark rope.

True to the spirit of our ancestors, we were blessed with the presence of kangaroos 🦘 wallabies, their joeys, and an echidna 🦔 . The children were fully immersed in the program.

On the final day, our newly appointed Junior Leader, Kira, developed and delivered an impressive trivia game with dance 🕺 breaka in between. We are extremely proud of the leadership Kira demonstrated throughout the week. The kids showed great respect towards her. 🖤🥰❤️

Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Services
Barang Regional Alliance

10/10/2025

3 weeks until our Yula-Punaal NAIDOC on Country is back! 🖤💛❤️

Come join us, connect, yarn and immerse yourself in culture. 🤎🌱🫶🏾

Register today! 🎟
https://events.humanitix.com/yula-punaal-naidoc-on-country

14/09/2025

🌟 Yula-Punaal NAIDOC on Country – Yulu-gi Gathering 🌟

Calling all our young deadly Miyay (girls) and Birray (boys) – it’s time to shake a leg and celebrate culture at our vibrant Yulu-gi Gathering!

We’re inviting local dance groups, whether you’re already established or just starting out, to perform and showcase your traditions, songs, and deadly moves.

🖤 Open to groups with participants under 17
💛 Prizes to be won
❤️ Expression of Interest form now open - https://form.jotform.com/252428822946869

Let’s dance, celebrate, and be strong in culture together!

10/09/2025

Such a special day. 🫶🏾🤎👧🏽👦🏿

10/09/2025

Today, Yula-Punaal supported and participated in National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day and Indigenous Literacy Day at the Tacoma Wetlands with Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Services and Barang Regional Alliance.

Both events are aimed at our children with a focus of culture, and our children’s learning and growth. Our children had the opportunity to interact and experience cultural learnings including language, literacy, artefacts, selfcare and healthy eating choices. 🍱

Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) is annually observed on the first Wednesday of September. ⚫️🥰🔴 📕

Hosted by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, an Australian non-profit organisation, ILD is dedicated to enhancing literacy within remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Each year, ILD features a specific theme, providing resources and events tailored to enhance literacy for Aboriginal communities. 🙌🏽👦🏽👧🏼👦🏻👧🏾🙌🏽

09/09/2025

Come along tomorrow! Check out the flyer below and change of venue. 👶🏾🧒🏼👦🏿👧🏽

📢 We have made a venue change due to predicted weather to Central Coast Wetlands - Pioneer Dairy 1897 S Tacoma Rd, Tuggerah.

Come along for a day of connection, culture, and community. Our gudjagang aged 0-5 years old will be immersed in cultural activities, language, and storytelling, while also receiving important hearing, vision and dental checks. To celebrate their health and culture, gudjagang who complete all health screens will have the special opportunity to receive a cultural portrait.

⏰ Wednesday 10 September, 10.00am – 12.30pm

📍Central Coast Wetlands - Pioneer Dairy 1897 S Tacoma Rd, Tuggerah

📘 Parents please bring along their gudjagang's BLUE BOOK to have checked on the day.

LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE!

To register please contact Amanda Dean on 0415 194 066 or amanda.dean@eleanorduncan.org.au