NPY Women’s Council: Building your cultural guiding principles into your rulebook

The NPY Women’s Council became incorporated under new legislation in 2008. The council undertook a significant period of consultation with its members—spread across a large geographic region—in the lead-up to lodging its new rulebook (formally known as the constitution) with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC).

As a result of those consultations, members introduced new clauses into the rulebook including key guiding cultural principles such as:

• Ngapartji ngapartji kulinma muna iwara wananma tjukarurungka: respect each other and following the law straight
• Kalypangku: conciliatory
• Piluntungku: peaceful and calm
• Kututu mukulyangku: kindhearted
• Tjungungku: united
• Kunpungku: strong