Useful Links
Below are a selection of resources and links. If you have a relevant addition please email the team.
State government settlement INFORMATION
Resources for educators
Aboriginal Education - Department of Education WA
APAC - Aboriginal Perspectives Across the Curriculum
Batchelor Press - Noongar Resources
Carrolup Collection at John Curtin Gallery
Excursions and virtual excursions for K-10. Previous website here
GECKOS (Growing Enriched Cultural Knowledge in Schools) - Catholic Education WA
ICEA Yarn for Schools Program
Yarn is a youth-to-youth program that facilitates an understanding of cultural identity, shared history and reconciliation.
Kaartdijin Noongar
The aim of the Kaartdijin website is to share the richness of our knowledge, culture and history in order to strengthen our community and promote wider understanding.
Kings Park and Botanic Garden Education
Provides hands-on, inquiry-based education programs for students from Kindergarten to Tertiary.
Japingka Aboriginal Art
General educational resources about Aboriginal art for primary and early high school students.
Madjitil Moorna Choir
'Koorlong', Noongar Songs in Schools project.
Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Schools and Early Learning
Supports schools and early learning services across Australia to develop environments that foster a higher level of knowledge and pride in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and contributions.
Noongar Boodjar Language Cultural Aboriginal Corporation
Free Noongar language educational resources and other language resources for purchase.
Our Knowledge, Our Land - Mandurah
Yaburgurt Memorial Educational Resources, pre-primary to lower secondary.
PALS funding
An initiative which encourages Western Australian schools to develop projects that promote reconciliation in their local community. Funding assistance of $1000 is available.
South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council - Noongar language poster order form [pdf form]
Storylines - State Library of Western Australia
Engage with WA Indigenous people through historical documents, movies, oral histories and photographs.
Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project
Bilingual Wirlomin Noongar story books available for purchase and videos of stories being read aloud.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company
K-6 school incursion performances. Contact education@yirrayaakin.com.au.
Representative Bodies
Goldfields Land and Sea Council
The representative body responsible for the Goldfields and Kalgoorlie region.
Yamatji Marlpa Barna Baba Maaja Aboriginal Corporation
The representative body for the Pilbara, Murchison and Gascoyne areas.
Kimberley Land Council
The representative body responsible for the Kimberley region.
Sea Alaska
The Sea Alaska organisation is an inspiring example of what can be achieved in resolving native title.
Larrakia Development Corporation
An inspiring Australian Aboriginal example of what can be achieved in resolving native title.
Native Title Representative Bodies
Provides information and developments of Australian native title issues.
Health and Support
Tomorrow People
About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being healthier and living longer.
Advocare
An independent advocacy agency which advocates and protects the rights and best interests of, people living in aged care facilities, people receiving community care services; and people not currently receiving these services but who are eligible for them.
Jacaranda Community Centre
Set up due to the support within the Belmont and surrounding areas for an agency that offered more than financial counselling.
Aboriginal Hostel Limited
Has provided temporary accommodation services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since 1973.
ARBOR
An outreach service providing support especially for people bereaved by suicide. If you have lost a loved one by suicide ARBOR can walk alongside you through this difficult time and provide additional support if needed.
Yorgum
Aims to offer Aboriginal people an autonomous, Aboriginal specific community based, counselling and referral service that acknowledges the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal people.
The Aboriginal Alcohol and Drug Service (AADS)
Formally known as Noongar Alcohol and Substance Abuse Service Inc. (NASAS), AADS is an Incorporated Body empowered to operate under the Associations and Incorporations Act of Western Australia 1987.
The Drug and Alcohol Office
The government agency responsible for drug and alcohol strategies and services in Western Australia.
Womens Health Services
Specialises in women's health issues, providing medical, counselling, drug and alcohol support, domestic violence, mental health and other health services for women and their families.
Relationships Australia (Western Australia) Inc
A non profit community service association providing a diverse range of innovative counselling, mediation, community education and professional development services, and which influences social policy formation.
The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Aboriginal children face a number of health and wellbeing hurdles before they are born. They are more likely to be born pre-term and at a lower birth weight: because of this they suffer higher rates of SIDS, infectious diseases and emotional and behavioural problems than non-Aboriginal children.
MercyCare
With a proud history dating back to 1846, the modern day MercyCare stands tall as a leading Catholic, health and community, not-for-profit organisation in Perth.
Peedac
The Community Support Service supports Indigenous community members and their families by providing links and referrals to a range of mainstream and Indigenous services which may include welfare and social support, family violence, health (including drug and alcohol services), housing, child care and legal.
Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service
An Aboriginal Community Controlled organisation, incorporated under State legislation in 1973.
Centrecare
With a not-for-profit status, Centrecare delivers quality professional counselling, support, family dispute resolution and training services.
Legal Yarn by Legal Aid Western Australia
The first legal, culturally safe telephone information service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, staffed by mob, for mob. You can talk about unpaid fines, Family Law issues, Child Protection matters, and any Criminal Law matters. Call 1800 319 803 weekdays between 9am and 4pm (except public holidays).
Education and Employment
The Department of Education
Together we acknowledge the contributions of Aboriginal Australians and non-Aboriginal Australians to the education of all children and people in this country we all live in and share together - Western Australia.
Centre for Aboriginal Studies
Promotes participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in tertiary studies, and aims to create new ways of learning and working that are culturally appropriate, for the benefit all people.
North Metropolitan TAFE
Aims to nurture participation, productivity and aspirations for our learners, our industry and our community.
South Metropolitan TAFE
One of Western Australia’s most diverse training providers with major campuses in Bentley, Carlisle, Fremantle, Murdoch, Rockingham, Thornlie and Mandurah.
The Gould League
Australia's leading environmental education organisation.
Marr Mooditj
Vision is ‘To eliminate the gap in the employment rate between Aboriginal people and the wider population in the health and community services sector’.
SMYL Community Services
Received funds from the Australian Government through the Teaching and Learning Capital Fund (VET) Investing in Community Education & Training program to build and operate a $1.3million Digital Learning Network.
Finance
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA)
Providing the means for Indigenous Australians to create wealth and accumulate assets, take up mainstream investment opportunities, create business enterprises that provide additional employment opportunities, and purchase homes.
Indigenous Community Volunteers
Works in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and provides assistance in designing and implementing community development projects.
The Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC)
Aims to assist Indigenous people with land acquisition and land management to achieve economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits.
Councils and Government
National Native Title Tribunal
An Australian Commonwealth Government agency mediating native title claims under the direction of the Federal Court of Australia.
Federal Court of Australia
Makes determinations relating to native title.
The State Records Office of Western Australia
Holds a range of archival records relating to Noongar people.
The Western Australian Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage (previously Department of Indigenous Affairs)
Responsible for planning Western Australia's communities and managing land and heritage assets.
The City of Joondalup
A region that covers an area of 99km square from beach to bushland.
Department of Indigenous Affairs
Engages with Indigenous Western Australians and all levels of Government to improve the delivery of services, to facilitate the development of policy and programs which deliver sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits to Indigenous communities.
City of Cockburn
Cockburn's original inhabitants were a Swan River tribe of Aborigines who made their campsites along the City's central chain of lakes to avoid the salty waters of the lakes nearer to the coast.
Miscellaneous
www.noongarculture.org.au
The aim of the Kaartdijin website is to share the richness of our knowledge, culture and history in order to strengthen our community and promote wider understanding.
FOREVER WARRIORS, by: Jan "Kabarli" James
A book honouring all Western Australian Aboriginal men and women who served their country in both war and peace.
Noongar Radio
100.9 FM (Noongar Radio) is managed by Noongar Media Enterprises (NME), a subsidiary company of Peedac Pty Ltd, a not-for-profit Aboriginal community cased organisation.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company
A successful and highly innovative theatre company dedicated to sharing Aboriginal stories in all their diversity.
Paul Keating Redfern speech (video)
Video of the Paul Keating Redfern speech (from the National Archives of Australia).
Paul Keating Redfern speech (audio)
Audio of the Paul Keating Redfern speech (from the National Archives of Australia).
AIATSIS - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Studies
The world's premier institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Outcare
Western Australia's only specialist non government provider of crime prevention services and programs.
Madjitil Moorna
With growing awareness of the gap in opportunity between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, members of Zig Zag Community Arts Inc in 2006 began a project which has become Madjitil Moorna – Magical Bush Sounds.
Maalinup
Forty minutes from the Perth CBD within Western Australia's oldest wine growing region.
Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Operators Committee (WAITOC)
Comprises membership from all regions within Western Australia. Automomous Association providing advice and information to all relevant State Government agencies as well as the tourism industry sector.
Berndt Museum of Anthropology
Holds one of Australia's finest collections of Australian Aboriginal of contemporary and historical art and cultural materials, as well as Asian and Melanesian collections.
Gowrie Community Services
Offers a range of workshops for members of the community.