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Kimberley community writes plan for ‘happy, strong, small children’ with playgrounds, grog bans
Glenys Benning and her family are steeped in Derby history
A Nyikina woman, she chairs the Ngunga Group Womens Aboriginal Corporation and has seen the world change around the small Kimberley town, 2,200km north of Perth, in the past decade.
“I grew up on a native reserve and we had elders,” she said.
“The younger generation of families, they suffer.”
Ms Benning is part of a group of Derby women who have helped write a new community plan aimed at addressing the recent troubles plaguing the town, and other communities across northern Western Australia.
The women, the…