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Judges on Country

Alice Springs / Mparntwe

This is the public local-context route for the Oonchiumpa postcards. Start with the people leading the work, keep postcode 0870 in view, and use the links below to move from one story in Alice Springs to the local systems picture and then back into your own community.

95%
Diversion success
72%
School re-engagement
97.6%
Cheaper than detention
32+
Partner organisations

What Oonchiumpa proves locally

Oonchiumpa is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation working across 7 language groups within 150km of Mparntwe. The strongest public story stack in JusticeHub is simple: diversion works better, school re-engagement is possible, and community-led responses cost far less than detention.

This is why Kristy Bloomfield, Tanya Turner, Jackquann, Nigel, Laquisha, Fred, and Xavier belong on the cards before any abstract policy language does.

What postcode 0870 shows

$3.1B tracked into postcode 0870 across 806 mapped entities and 1,985 funding relationships.

227 mapped entities are community-controlled, but only 65.8% of traced funding is flowing to community-controlled organisations.

GrantScope also holds a verified Oonchiumpa line item: $1,400,000 for NIAA Central Australia Youth Safety in 2023-24.

Pass it on like a campaign, not a souvenir.

The point of the postcard is not to remember the visit politely. It is to move one more person into contact with what community-led practice in Alice Springs actually looks like, and then force the question back onto their own jurisdiction.

+Write one sentence about what changed for you in Alice Springs.
+Send this page to one judge, police leader, child protection worker, or MP.
+Ask them to search their own area before they speak about youth justice again.

Take it back to chambers

Use the judges field guide after the trip. Search the live alternatives, hold onto the local proof, and keep the Alice Springs lesson in the room when your own matters are being heard.