Ltyentye Apurte Community

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Ltyentye Apurte Community
Northern Territory
Ltyentye Apurte Community is located in Northern Territory
Ltyentye Apurte Community
Ltyentye Apurte Community
Coordinates24°07′49″S 134°22′28″E / 24.130391°S 134.374341°E / -24.130391; 134.374341Coordinates: 24°07′49″S 134°22′28″E / 24.130391°S 134.374341°E / -24.130391; 134.374341
Population682
 • Density0.5456/km2 (1.413/sq mi)
Established1952
Area1,250 km2 (482.6 sq mi)
LGA(s)MacDonnell Shire
RegionAlice Springs Region
Federal division(s)Lingiari

The Ltyentye Apurte Community, also known as Santa Teresa, is an Arrernte indigenous community in the Northern Territory, Australia, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south-east of Alice Springs.[1]

History[]

The mission run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at Arltunga was moved to Santa Teresa in 1953.[2] It included a Mission school and dormitories which accommodated Aboriginal children aged 5 to 17 years.[3] Hospital care was provided.[4] Father Thomas Dixon was responsible for the church.

In 1976, administration was passed from the Mission to an Aboriginal land trust and the community was renamed Ltyentye Apurte. Although the residential section of the Mission school was closed in the same year, the day school remains operational and in the hands of the church.[5]

The Keringke Arts Centre was established in 1989.[6] Since 2007 women in the community have painted religious crosses which are exported to Catholic churches around the world.[7]

In 1996, the population was recorded at 458,[8] rising to 555 in 2011[9] and to 682 in 2016.[10]

According to data from the 2011 census, Santa Teresa is the most Catholic place in Australia.[11]

Governance[]

The community is governed by a Community Government Council which runs the health service (with dialysis room[12]) and some other facilities. The community contains a Catholic primary/senior school, police station, airstrip and Catholic Church. Since 1 July 2008, the MacDonnell Shire is the responsible local government for the area.

Sport[]

Australian rules football is popular in the community, with matches played at the Santa Teresa Oval which was resurfaced from sand loam to grass in 2021 through a project in partnership with the AFL's Melbourne Football Club Red and Blue Foundation.[13]

Awards[]

In 2019, Ltyentye Apurte Community won the Australian Tidy Town Awards competition and is named Australian most sustainable Community.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ http://macdonnell.nt.gov.au/communities/santa-teresa
  2. ^ "Native Mission Moves to Better Site". Advocate. LXXXV (5064). Victoria, Australia. 14 August 1952. p. 8. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.; Santa Teresa and East Aranda history, 1929-1988, compiled by John Pye (Coleman's Printing, Darwin, 1989).
  3. ^ Find and Connect: Santa Teresa Mission (1953-1977).
  4. ^ National Archives of Australia, Darwin Office, Series F1 1954/64: Roman Catholic Mission Santa Teresa.
  5. ^ "Santa Teresa Mission - Organisation - Find & Connect - Northern Territory". Find & Connect.
  6. ^ N. Lee, Santa Teresa celebrates, ABC Alice Springs, 4 Sept 2009; Keringke : contemporary eastern Arrernte art, Jukurrpa Books, Alice Springs, 1999, ISBN 1864650079.
  7. ^ E. Haskin, From Antarctica to the Vatican, remote Indigenous community sends crosses to the world, ABC Alice Springs, 19 Sept 2017.
  8. ^ -, -. "2016.7 - Census of Population and Housing: Selected Characteristics for Urban Centres and Localities, Northern Territory, 1996". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2021. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "2011 census QuickStats: Santa Teresa". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  10. ^ "Santa Teresa - Demographics". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 2021. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  11. ^ "E-news bulletin" (PDF). Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Pastoral Research Office (21). 1 March 2013. p. 1. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  12. ^ https://www.westerndesertdialysis.com/communities/santa-teresa-ltyentye-apurte
  13. ^ Santa Teresa Oval Project
  14. ^ "Santa Teresa named Australian's most Sustainable Community". Keep Australia Beautiful. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.

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