The company that oversaw a disastrous property purchase by an Indigenous charitable trust in Western Australia could be on the hook for a multi-million-dollar compensation claim.
The former chief of the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council is pursuing the native title body and its chair for damages over allegedly defamatory comments he claims it published last year.
WA's largest Aboriginal health service has been placed under special administration while South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council has removed its chief executive after a disputed property deal.
El Caballo Resort and Lifestyle Village will be repurposed to become a social housing facility for indigenous Australians under a new joint venture established by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council.
