Council Adopts Regional Plan 2025-2026
June 26, 2025
East Arnhem Regional Council adopted the Budget for the 2025-2026 financial year and the Regional Plan for 2025-2026 at its Ordinary Council Meeting held on Thursday, 26 June 2025.
You can obtain copies of the 2025-2026 Regional Plan and Budget:
- by downloading from www.eastarnhem.nt.gov.au
- view in hard copy at any of Council’s Service Delivery Centres and the Regional Office
- by telephoning (08) 8986 8986 or emailing info@eastarnhem.nt.gov.au
East Arnhem Regional Councillor Cyril Bukulatjpi - Gumurr Marthakal and CEO Dale Keehne spoke with Katie Woolf on Mix FM, about role of our Aboriginal Regional Local Government with the new Remote Australia Employment Service
East Arnhem Regional Council CEO, Dale Keehne spoke with Adam Steer from ABC Radio Darwin, raising concerns of Aboriginal Regional Councils with the new Remote Australia Employment Service
Deputy President Stephen Dhamarrandj and CEO Dale Keehne recently visited Milingimbi and meet with our Municipal Team.
President Lapulung Dhamarrandji, Deputy President Stephen Dhamarrandj, Councillor Ganygulpa Dhurrkay, CEO Dale Keehne, Director - Council Services Signe Balodis, and Council Staff attended the Traditional Credit Union (TCU) ’s 30-year celebration in Milingimbi on Friday, 3 October 2025.
Councillor Murphy Yunupingu, CEO Dale Keehne, and Director – Council Services Signe Balodis attended the National Police Remembrance Day held in Nhulunbuy to honour officers who have passed and acknowledge the tireless work of the Police to support safe communities and homelands.
As the Aboriginal Controlled Local Government Council for the East Arnhem region, our Council prides itself on providing and delivering excellent djäma (work) and career opportunities in the six remote Yolŋu communities and Nhulunbuy with strong connections to homelands.
Elected Members from across the East Arnhem region came together at the Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre, ahead of the formal Council Meeting held on Thursday, 18 September 2025.
In September, the East Arnhem Regional Council Aged Care Services & Disability Services team at Yirrkala brought our participants to Miḏawarr Day Out 2025 at the Gove Peninsula Surf Life-Saving Club, Nhulunbuy.
Today the results of the 2025 Local Government Elections have been officially declared by the Northern Territory Electoral Commission .
