Non-profit business development agency Morrgul has a wealth of data to prove its mantra that education and employment are the best ways to lift people out of poverty.
Native title stakeholders must stop finger-pointing and sit down together to build a better heritage approvals process, one of the state's leading consultants says.
Project proponents have been warned of approval delays after the federal government cut grants to native title representatives by as much as 40 per cent.
The resources industry must view native title as a property right if it wants to remove barriers impeding project approvals, the author of a landmark heritage review says.
Fortescue has struck a deal with a Pilbara Aboriginal group to lease electric machinery and involve them in planning of mines and green energy infrastructure.
Water Corporation will strengthen Aboriginal participation requirements in tenders as the state invests $2.7 billion in water and wastewater infrastructure.
The state government will move to curb the influence ‘predatory' consultants hold over negotiations between native title parties and resources companies.
Yawuru professor Peter Yu has urged native title groups to buy stakes in infrastructure, while warning of the risk far-right politics posed to Indigenous advancement.
Aboriginal small business owners are being encouraged to snap up companies held by baby boomers as they look to offload assets before heading into retirement.
A serious lack of Indigenous businesses operating in the mining industry presents a compelling case for entrepreneurship to plug the gap in the Kimberley.
