Changing Lives
Our programs are aimed specifically at Indigenous youth, informing them of the right food choices required for a healthy life. We engage with a creative environment incorporating music, video & new media to encourage healthy eating habits & active lifestyles.
Our programs are aimed specifically at Indigenous youth, informing them of the right food choices required for a healthy life. We engage with a creative environment incorporating music, video & new media to encourage healthy eating habits & active lifestyles.
To provide health and nutrition education and to strive for excellence in health care for Indigenous Australians.
OUR VISION
to improve the quality of life for Indigenous Australians.
OUR MISSION
To provide health and nutrition education and to strive for excellence in health care for Indigenous Australians.
Board of directors
Uncle Jimmy Thumbs Up! Ltd is a not-for-profit charitable organisation with DGR (tax exempt) status. UJTU Ltd is governed by a Board of Directors. Funding is sourced from a combination of corporate and private donations and has received support from the Australian and Northern Territory Governments and other NFP organisations.
Adam James Robinson
Director
Adam James Robinson is a Quandamooka man from Stradbroke Island QLD who for the past 4 years has been the Business Coordinator of the Indigenous Research and Engagement Unit at the University of Technology Queensland. Adam is also a successful award winning musician and songwriter who has also been a music facilitator in many communities for the Uncle Jimmy Thumbs Up! program. With his skills and interest in music and marketing Adam brings more than his youthful energy to the organization.
Dr Brad Murphy
Director
Shellie Morris
Director
Shellie Morris has spent the past 25 years honing her skills as a storyteller and musician. She has been in the spotlight for years through the Black Arm Band, Deadly awards, ARIA nominations, Music Australia award, NAIDOC Award, G.R. Burarrawanga Memorial Award and she was the 2014 NT Australian of the Year and 2014 NAIDOC National Artist of the Year. Since discovering her Wardaman and Yanyuwa roots, she has tirelessly worked to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, especially in the Northern Territory. Shellie was a facilitator on the first Thumbs Up! program in East Arnhem land 2009 and has worked with numerous organisations using music as a healing tool and also as an educational tool, highlighting in subtle but powerful ways the importance of numeracy, literacy and education as a whole. She was a driving force of the acclaimed album Ngambala Wiji li-Wunungu and the internationally award-winning musical documentary Prison Songs.
Doctor Mark Bin Bakar HonECU
Director
I am a Kimberley person married and have two sons and 8 grandchildren with my wife.
I have been a advocate for Musicians throughout WA and established the Abmusic Music School in Perth. I have toured extensively throughout Australia as myself in a band and also as Mary G. I am a Kitja man who has been a major contributor to the Kimberley, Western Australia and Australia through the Arts and Media.
I established and created the nationally acclaimed Stompem Ground Festival and ran 3 of them on live television across Australia in simulcast with JJJ. I have events management skills and continue to support regional musicians. I am a ex board member of the ATSIA board and also past Chair. I own a digital multi track recording studio and finailsing my 4th album soon.
I continue my live 3hr radio show every Wed evening promoting WA music to a huge massive audience and do this as a volunteer. I recently won the Dubbo Dusty Boot Award for 2020 for Services to Country Music being the Les Nolan Lifetime Achievement Award for my radio show as Mary G.