Communities · Northern Territory

Utopia Homelands

Anmatyerr and Alyawarr country, including the Ampilatwatja outstation where Frankie Holmes OAM and Mr Donald Thompson OAM each received beds in May 2026. Multiple outstations across the homelands. Young people in Alice Springs built and delivered beds to outstation families the next day.

Co-designed and built with young people in Alice Springs, delivered on country to outstation families. Includes Ampilatwatja, where two senior Alyawarr brothers received beds in May 2026.

147 beds delivered

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Field notes

From Alice Springs to Utopia
Three days across Alice Springs, Utopia, Arawerr and Ampilatwatja. Young people built beds in Alice with Oonchiumpa. Local teams led the deliveries out to the homelands. We sat with Elders. 107 beds, materials from Centrecorp Foundation.
Alice Springs · Utopia Homelands · Arawerr · Ampilatwatja, NT · 20–22 May 2026

Stories + media

Three Days in Utopia, and What the Homelands Asked of Us
Three days with the Oonchiumpa team. The young people who built the beds. The families who asked for them. The trust I was lent for every photograph. What the homelands instructed me to carry home.