Mpwetyerre (Abbott's)
Mpwetyerre (Abbott's)
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ButtonPronounciation: Um-butcher-rah
Meaning: Place Name
Population: 74
Languages spoken: Arrernte, Warlpiri, Luritja, Pitjantjatjara, Warumungu
Director: Mervyn Kingsley
Mpwetyerre (Um-butcher-rah) or Abbott’s Camp was first incorporated on the 25th, October 1975 by residents to support their efforts to obtain security of tenure; housing and essential services. Mpwetyerre is located at Lot 2664 which has been held by virtue of a Special Purpose Lease in Perpetuity for Aboriginal Communal Purposes since 1980. Mpwetyerre is home to speakers of Arrernte, Arrernte, Warlpiri, Luritja, and Pitjantjatjara. The 2005 population and mobility study identified that the resident population at that time was 74 people and that the service population was as high as 156 people . In December 2009 Mpwetyerre entered a Tripartite Alice Springs Living Area Sublease with the Executive Director of Township Leasing (Commonwealth) and the CEO of Housing (Territory) for a period of 40 years, under the threat of compulsory acquisition. This agreement led to an investment in housing and infrastructure by the Commonwealth and Territory as part of the Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP); and to the transition from community-controlled housing to housing management by the Department of Local Government, Housing and Community Development (DLGHCD). Today Mpwetyerre is home to 6 households. Mpwetyerre is a Corporate Member of TCAC. Mpwetyerre is led by a Board of Directors, the President is a Director of Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC). Mpwetyerre is a party to the Local Decision-Making Commitment Agreement between TCAC and the Territory.