A specialist police group of officers from South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory will be sent to the APY Lands on a fly-in fly-out basis, as part of the SA Government’s $1 million cost-cutting overhaul to policing in the state’s far north.
A crisis in community policing in the APY Lands has led to six full-time community constable positions remaining vacant, prompting Police Minister Corey Wingard to schedule a visit to the remote area to seek answers.
Schools in the APY lands will start teaching in Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara language with English as an additional language by 2029 under a new State Government plan.
South Australian Aboriginal students will reach the same literacy and numeracy standards as their non-Aboriginal classmates by 2029 under the Education Department’s new draft plan for closing the gap on Indigenous education.