Travis Kennell is the first Angurugu restaurant to complete Grade 12 on the island, despite an 18-kilometre ride and a family death. On November 14, 2018, the Northern Territory government signed a Local Decision-Making Agreement (LDM) with the Anindilyakwa community. The agreement means that the government authorities will work with the Community to change public services so that the Community has more control over its own affairs. “We need to have confidence that people on the ground are doing it right; Local choices are the best choices. “It`s been around for a long time,” he said. “The Government of the Northern Territory promised the people of Anindilyakwa last year, when we signed the local decision agreement on the Groote Archipelago, that it would allow us to make decisions at the local level. Gunner said the agreement was the largest and broadest of its kind to be developed in the Northern Territory and marked the first step towards creating a treaty with Aboriginal people. It said that local decision-making and broad consultations will be at the forefront of its legal approach, with the draft Aboriginal Justice Agreement (AJA) to be finalized by the end of the year. “We are committed to restoring local decision-making in remote communities. As part of the agreement, it is a plan to transfer the management of all public housing from the government to the regional council, and future plans include a bilingual program and a new residential school, a new low-security alternative to prisons, municipal health clinics and plans to create a new regional council. “We really need to look at things differently, look at the social, cultural and economic factors that can influence justice in the Northern Territory around Aboriginal people and detentions, and see how we can succeed with local equity agreements.” “People just feel like they know exactly what they need to do to improve the quality of life; they do not have the capacity to make decisions themselves, and they want that decision back to them. The Groote Archipelago will have a new independent boarding school and bilingual curriculum as part of a locally conducted educational agreement signed with Anindilyakwa Traditional Owners.