The cut-off date for memberships of the GKB, Ballardong, Whadjuk and Yued regional corporations will be Wednesday, 1st December.
You will need to have your membership application in by the 1st December in order to be eligible to nominate for the board or cultural advice committees, to vote in the first elections, and to attend the first general meeting
Click here to apply online, or contact SWASLC for a printed form.
This year’s SWALSC AGM will be held on 15 November at High Wycombe Community & Recreation Centre from 9:30am–2:30pm.
It’s been a very big year for SWALSC and for the South West Native Title Settlement. Please join us as we look back on our hard work this year, and prepare for an even more productive 2022.
Download meeting notice and previous minutes here.
Download pdf of Annual Report here.
Over the coming months, the WA state government, Perpetual Trustee and SWALSC will hold a number of information days around the south west so that beneficiaries of the Noongar Boodja Trust can learn more about the Settlement, its structure, and opportunities to participate for the benefit of all Noongar people.
The Indigenous Apprenticeships Program (IAP) plays a pivotal role in increasing Indigenous employment opportunities across the APS.
Since 2015, the IAP has given over 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people opportunities to join the APS. These are people with diverse backgrounds, including people leaving school, finishing study or looking for a new career.
The Department of Communities is establishing an Aboriginal Strategic Advisory Group to provide advice and ideas on important areas of work, including Child Protection, Disability Services, Family and Domestic Violence, and Housing and Homelessness.
Nominations are sought from interested Aboriginal people from around Western Australia to be part of the first advisory group.
Membership of the advisory group will comprise between 10 and 15 people, including men and women from the metropolitan area, regional towns and cities, and remote communities. Communities will aim to have equal numbers of men and women on the advisory group.
Members will be appointed for a one- or two-year period to enable staggered terms and ensure continuity.
The advisory group will meet four times a year, mostly in person but members can also attend online through Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Additional meetings may be held with all or some members of the advisory group if advice is needed about particular issues or if an emergency arises (such as a lockdown due to COVID-19).
Communities will organise and pay for members who need to travel to attend the meetings.
Members will receive a sitting fee for each meeting.
Applications close at 5pm on Monday 18 October 2021.
To apply, please download and fill out a nomination form, and provide a description about your interest in the role and the knowledge and experience you will bring to it. This might include professional learning from work or study, or through being involved in your community.
You can prepare this written description yourself or someone can provide one on your behalf. You can also create a video telling us why you would like to be part of the advisory group.
Please send your nomination form and written description or video to us by email to aboriginal-outcomes-secretariat@communities.wa.gov.au or by post to:
Department of Communities
Locked Bag 5000
Fremantle WA 6959
For more information about the application process, please contact the Secretariat on the email above, or phone Chris Stronach 0432 835 751 or Chad Stewart on 0481 066 648.
SWALSC has a new membership app available to download now.
The new app will make it easier for you to get information about what’s happening with SWALSC, and to keep your details up to date on our database.
Existing SWALSC members can login to the new membership app today and download it to your phone. To login for the first time:
Click here and type in your user name and email address (your username is your first name and membership number, eg “Jane0001”)
Press the “reset password” button and you’ll receive an email with a link to choose your own password
Once your password is confirmed you can use it to login here.
If you aren’t able to login please contact SWALSC on (08) 9358 7400 and we can help.
We have a new online expression of interest form to make it easier to apply for membership of the new regional corporations. You may apply to join multiple regional corporations for any agreement groups you have a connection to, or just the one you feel most connected with.
We encourage you to join and get involved in the important work the regional corporations will do as part of the Settlement.
Click here to fill out your EOI for the regional corporation/s.
The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage has grants available for the management, promotion and safekeeping of registered Aboriginal heritage sites in WA.
Incorporated Aboriginal not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of up to $30,000 for 'on-the-ground' works including the remediation of burial sites, fence and signage installation, and promotion of cultural information. Projects must include a site registered on the Register of Aboriginal Places and Objects to be eligible for funding.
A total of $250,000 in grants funding is available. The previous 2020-21 funding round awarded grants for heritage projects, preservation, promotion and protection of Western Australia's invaluable Aboriginal heritage, and opportunities for truth-telling, reconciliation and cultural tourism.
The grants program is administered by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage. More information is available at DPLH or by phoning (08) 6551 7920.
Applications are now open and close on October 15, 2021.
Nominations are open for the Noongar Charitable Trust - Advisory Council and the Yued Charitable Trust - Trustee Advisory Committee.
Noongar Charitable Trust
Nominations are open for new members of the Noongar Charitable Trust - Advisory Council.
The Noongar Charitable Trust (The Trust) was established in June 2011 to pool resources derived from the development of former Aboriginal Lands Trust Land in Gnangara and apply such funds to support specific charitable objectives for the Noongar peoples or organisations established for the benefit thereof.
The charitable objects and purposes of the Trust are – the relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, destitution misfortune and helplessness of the Noongar Community.
The Advisory Council is responsible for the distribution of funds to the Noongar community via a Community Grants Program.
The Community Grants Program is aimed at providing support to small incorporated Aboriginal community-controlled organisations that are operating on Noongar country and delivering services to Noongar people.
Key priority areas for funding include: - Health, Crisis and Hardship; Aged; Housing; Cultural and Heritage; Education, Training and Employment; and Children and Youth (0-25 years). There are four (4) funding rounds per year: - January, April, July and October, and the Advisory Committee meets every quarter to review applications.
To nominate for a position on the Advisory Council, please complete the attached Nomination Form, and provide copies of any supporting documentation and submit it to Communitytrusts@eqt.com.au
Download an Advisory Council Nomination Process Information
Download an Advisory Council Nomination Form
Nominations close 5pm, Thursday 30th September 2021
Yued Charitable Trust
CALLING FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE TRUSTEE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The terms of all but one of the current appointed members of the Trustee Advisory Committee are due to expire on the 9-12 January 2022. As per section 8.6(b) Yued Charitable Trust Deed a person must not be appointed as a member of the Trust Advisory Committee for consecutive terms.
Download a Trustee Advisory Committee nomination form
Please submit all nominations to the Trustee.
Nominations close 5pm, Monday 1 November 2021
The WA government is rushing though its proposed Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, without proper consultation with Aboriginal people. Help us let the people of Western Australia know that the draft Bill will not stop the destruction of Aboriginal cultural heritage.
Aboriginal people have a Heritage Protection Plan that will stop the destruction without stopping development - but they are not being listened to.
Our latest newsletter will be arriving in your mailboxes soon, or you can download a copy here.
This issue has an update on our pre-incorporation meetings that are happening now, and the work our initial directors have already begun. We have two more meetings left, for Wagyl Kaip & Southern Noongar and South West Boojarah. Please come to these meetings if you’re eligible. This is your chance to be part of the establishment of our regional corporations from the beginning, and help make them work for the benefit of all Noongar people.
We also have a story about the visits to inspect land parcels, and we talk to our regional officer Michelle Winmar about the feedback she’s had from people who’ve gone on these visits.
We also have an update on the progress of the Aboriginal Heritage Act, which the WA government is seeking to table in parliament. We will be speaking more about the Bill and the campaign to improve it over the coming months.
On Saturday 7th August the Yued Agreement Group held its regional pre-incorporation meeting to officially begin the process of establishing its regional corporation.
The meeting was held at two locations - in Moora and Perth - and linked up via video.
All of the resolutions were successful and four initial directors were declared elected. Congratulations to Gregory Stephen Narrier, Diane Joyce Yappo, Mark Bruno Borinelli (Taylor) and Trevor Lewis Walley who will steer the corporation through the next stages towards its establishment.
Thank you to everyone who came to these meetings and contributed to a positive and productive day.
We look forward to the rest of the meetings over the next few months, and we hope to see you there.
If you have any questions, or need any documents for the meetings, click here for more details.
The Trustee of the Noongar Boodja Trust, Perpetual, is seeking a Noongar member of the Nominations Committee.
If you are a leader in your field, an experienced director and have a genuine desire to contribute to the social and economic advancement of the Noongar community, please lodge your expression of interest by 23 August 2021.
Your application should include:
• a current CV; and
• a short letter which confirms you meet eligibility requirements and addressing the selection criteria
The Wagyl Kaip & Southern Noongar pre-incorporation meeting will now be held on:
Saturday 11 September, 10am-4pm
(registration desk opens at 9:00am or you can register in advance here)
Gnowangerup Town Hall, Yougenup Rd, Gnowangerup
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
The Wagyl Kaip & Southern Noongar pre-incorporation meetings will be conducted simultaneously at the two venues. The venues will be linked via video, so that you can view proceedings in both locations. You may attend either meeting.
You’ll be sent all the necessary documents for the SWALSC Ward you’re registered with at least 21 days before the meeting. However you may also attend a regional pre-incorporation meeting for any of the agreement groups that you have a connection with. To get copies of the meeting documents for any other agreement group you can:
download them here,
pick up a copy at SWALSC regional offices, or
call SWALSC on 9358 7400 to have them mailed to you.
For more info see the regional pre-incorporation page here.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Saturday’s Wagyl Kaip & Southern Noongar meeting will be postponed until a later date. This applies to both the Gnowangerup and Perth venues.
Pre-incorporation meetings for the other agreement groups will continue as scheduled here.
We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause, and will announce a new date for the Wagyl Kaip & Southern Noongar meeting as soon as we can.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at SWALSC on 9358 7400.
Nominations are now open for casual vacancies for initial directors of the Ballardong and South West Boojarah regional corporations. These positions will be voted for at the pre-incorporation meetings for each region. Click here to download a nomination pack.
One vacancy to be filled in Ballardong, nominations close: 30 July 2021
Two vacancies to be filled in South West Boojarah, nominations close: 13 August 2021
As the time-frame is very short, nominations must include all supporting documents by close of nominations. There is not enough time to grant extensions for outstanding documents.
Your nomination must include:
a fully completed nomination form
a current CV
a current national police certificate (a lodgement of application receipt will not be sufficient for this new round of nominations)
a candidate profile (180 words max. confined to biographical information about you, your policies and/or beliefs)
(optional) a photograph to be included with your candidate profile in the notice of meeting to agreement group members
All Yued people are invited to attend a Yued People’s Meeting for the Yued Charitable Trust.
This meeting will be held at the Mills Park Function Centre, Beckenham on the 23rd July 2021. Download a meeting agenda here.
Nominations for the Yued Trust Advisory Committee – Yued Charitable Trust will also open on the 1 July and close 1 November 2021. There will 6 positions open for nomination, to replace 6 current TAC positions whose terms will expire 9 January 2022.
Download a nomination form here.
SWALSC plays no role in the management of the Yued Trust, but are posting this as part of our commitment to keeping the Noongar community informed of important events.
