About Us
About Wirrawandi Aboriginal Corporation:
Wirrawandi Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC was registered in 2018 to hold and manage the native title rights and interests for the Mardudhunera and Yaburara people. We are an Aboriginal-owned and governed, non-profit corporation located in Karratha, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Our Vision:
Build a legacy on country of belonging, inclusion and innovation for our members and marketplace.
Our Mission:
Self-determination through good governance and values-based decision making.
Our Values:
Respect
We live because of the journey of our ancestors and elders:
- Respect helps us hold our stories and honour our connection.
- Respect means we know who we are because we are committed to learning from each other through our shared cultural and community experiences.
- Respect gives us belonging because culture connects us and history reminds us that with respect, we can strengthen our existing connection and be stronger together.
Responsibility
We live to empower each other:
- Responsibility includes cultural governance.
- Responsibility includes corporate governance.
- Responsibility includes commercial governance.
- Responsibility includes family governance.
We must:
- Revitalise our cultural values & language.
- Recognise our own cultural mentors.
- Respect our own cultural identity.
- Recognise and respond to the burden and blessing of history.
- Respect and respond to the need for belonging in all our families.
Recognition
We live with the constant tension of:
- Recognition of the fight, our fight because what has happened in the past, and how we had to represent ourselves, work together and get our Native Title Determination and associate rights.
- Recognition for continued need for high exposure of our cultural voice and cultural direction – to keep us unified. We want to make sure culture keeps us all connected community is where we recognise and celebrate who we are and what we have been through.
- Recognition that our traditional lands include an industrial estate where our rights give us a seat at the table and the right to negotiate but not the power to veto (stop) any industrial development.
