Marion Scrymgour Lingiari Campaign

Meet Marion Scrymgour and support her campaign for Lingiari 

Date: Friday 7 February 2024 

Time: 5.30pm

Venue: Jardin St James, St James Church, Sydney City

Directions: Venue is the crypt and garden under St James Church, Phillip St. (Entry from Macquarie St, near the statue of Queen Victoria.)

Join us for a fundraiser in support of Voice to Parliament supporter Marion Scrymgour to help raise funds for her Lingiari campaign in the federal election to be held by May next year.

Marion will speak at the event. We will auction some fine paintings by artists from her electorate.

Marion’s electorate of Lingiari is the largest in Australia and covers all the Northern Territory minus the twin-cities of Darwin and Palmerston in the north.

Marion’s priorities in the second term of the Albanese government, and in the aftermath of an unsuccessful Voice referendum where remote Aboriginal communities voted resoundingly for ‘yes’, are:

• to defend the hard-won achievements of land rights in the Northern Territory from rollback and the fracturing of collective rights and decision-making, while supporting traditional owners on country to engage in economic development in their own way;

• to increase and better target Commonwealth funding for health, education, housing and jobs in remote communities;

• to ensure that any available steps are taken at a Federal level to protect water for all Territorians;

• to work with all stakeholders to address domestic violence and youth crime by switching focus from incarceration to a firm approach to family responsibility.

Marion, a Tiwi woman, is a respected leader having been CEO of the Northern Land Council and CEO of the Tiwi Islands Regional Council. She is a former member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Arafura from 2001 to 2012.

Prior to her entrance into politics, she was the CEO of the Wurli-Wurlinjang Aboriginal Health Service and the first CEO of Katherine West Aboriginal Health Board.

Entry fee of $130. Drinks and finger food provided.

Please RSVP here to attend the function. It is a great chance to meet and support this important Indigenous candidate and her crucial and vital work.