Across Rockhampton, Mount Morgan and Central Highlands (Blackwater and Emerald), Bidgerdii Community Health Service has been operating for over 30 yeas, providing a broad range of health and wellbeing services, and children and family services, to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living across Darumbal, Gaangalu and Ghungulu Country.
Coolgardie is an old goldfields town in WA with a huge community spirit. Surrounded by vast desert Country, the tight-knit community is big on caring for one another, celebrating culture and looking after the land.
Opportunities to grow, learn, be employed and stay in Meekatharra are at the centre of Yulella Aboriginal Corporation’s services. Yulella was set up to help local people find culturally appropriate work, set up enterprise opportunities and access training in the Midwest. This is leading to better access to the things people need to stay on Country and live more equitably.
For more than 40 years, Southern Aboriginal Corporation has been walking alongside Aboriginal communities across the southern Noongar region of Western Australia, growing its services in step with what community needs.
In 2023, a small Aboriginal art centre from the remote Western Desert appeared on the Australian Fashion Week runway for the first time. The community of Haasts Bluff sits more than 200 km west of Alice Springs – and yet its artists, their designs carrying Tjukurrpa and deep connection to Country, had made it to one of Australia’s most watched fashion stages.
In the Kimberley region of northwest WA, Nirrumbuk Aboriginal Corporation has been set up with a clear goal: local people experiencing self-sufficiency on their own terms. But as the road to independence looks different for everyone, the organisation’s got some clever ways to get people engaged and build confidence.
Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation (KWHB) delivers primary health care in one of the most complex service env
Good governance is key for corporations to run smoothly and achieve outcomes for the community. It sets up the rules and ways of doing things for the people who run the corporation. When it’s done well, it helps directors and members work together and make decisions in a clear, straight and fair way.
In 2023, a small pilot program was set up to teach coding to 160 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The idea was to encourage more First Nations people into science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education and careers, where there is a significant underrepresentation.
