Awards Showcase

The partnership between Reconciliation Australia and BHP Billiton that supports and coordinates the Awards is all about identifying, analysing and promoting high achieving Indigenous organisations. These are exceptionally well run organisations making a difference in their communities. They are led by visionary, highly able leaders.

The Awards program sends a message to a wider audience about the strength and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across a variety of sectors and contexts. The diversity of our finalists and winners over the years is a testimony to the range, scope and depth of quality of our Indigenous organisations.

2010 Indigenous Governance Awards winners

Category A: Organisations established for less than 10 years

Winner: Carbon Media, QLD

2010

Carbon Media Managing Director, Wayne Denning, with Karen Wood, BHP Billiton Chief People Officer and Prof Mick Dodson AM, Indigenous Governance Awards Chair

Established in 2006, Carbon Media is a privately owned new media production company based in Brisbane. As a wholly Aboriginal-owned organisation, it promotes Indigenous culture, languages and people using the latest technology through mediums including television, internet and mobile.

Panel comments

  • Carbon Media has a management structure which is stable but also flexible—allowing it to absorb increases in staff.
  • There is a clear delegation of decision making to the Managing Director of the company which has input from senior management and other experts.
  • Strategic direction is developed at all levels and articulates Carbon Media’s core values.
  • Carbon Media has a very talented pool of staff that have been well selected and trained.
  • Staff members are connected with the Indigenous community and Indigenous community issues and consider Indigenous cultural sensitivities.

Category A highly commended: Noongar Mia Mia, WA

2010

Representatives from Noongar Mia Mia

Since it was established in 2000, Noongar Mia Mia has been providing and managing public housing for Indigenous people within the Perth metropolitan area and encouraging Aboriginal home ownership. It is an Indigenous owned and controlled company that exclusively operates as a property manager of rental accommodation, both owned and subleased.

Panel comments

  • Noongar Mia Mia has strong leadership that knows which direction the organisation needs to go in.
  • The management has an extremely good professional and procedural relationship with the governing body.
  • The organisation is run by a talented team with lots of experience in working in the housing area, from tenancy to homeowner.
  • Noongar Mia Mia has a strong policy of risk management.
  • All business at Noongar Mia Mia is influenced by and conducted according to traditional values.

Category B: Organisations established for more than 10 years

Category B winner: Laynhapuy Homelands Association, NT

2010

Barayuwa Mununggurr, Chairman at Laynhapuy Homelands Association receiving his $10,000 cheque from Prof Mick Dodson AM, Chair Indigenous Governance Awards

The Laynhapuy Homelands Association provides services to 24 permanently occupied remote homelands of varying size in North East Arnhem Land. Programs are focused on the maintenance and protection of country and culture, employment, training and economic development opportunities, good standards of communication and infrastructure in homelands and good health, social and community development and educational outcomes.

Panel comments

  • This organisation has Yolngu control which is its core strength with many Yolgnu communities involved from the ground up.
  • Even while Laynhapuy operates at times in a hostile environment it still provides a service that communities are happy with.
  • Laynhapuy delivers fantastic service provision.
  • The staff at Laynhapuy are ambitious, holistic, pro-active and determined.

Update on Laynhapuy Homelands Association: In 2012 the Directors of Laynhapuy elected to go into special administration, an option permitted under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act in late 2011 it was revealed that Laynhapuy management had run into difficulties with their accounting processes and went into an operating deficit. During the special administration period the Directors and staff will recieve support to build their financial management capacity. Reconciliation Australia stands behind Laynhapuy and are certain they will continue on as a strong and resilient essential services delivery organisation for the Yolgnu homelands.

Category B highly commended: North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health, QLD

2010 

Chairman of North Coast, Tom Cleary, with his certificate and Wathaurong Glass plate.

 

NCACCH was established to address the health needs of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the Sunshine Coast and Gympie region. It operates a brokerage system that finds and ‘buys’ the best and most cost effective health service available from established mainstream health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Panel comments

  • NCACCH has an innovative model of service delivery that has proven very appropriate for the region in which it operates.
  • There is a clear recognition by the Board and management that they have different roles and responsibilities but must still collaborate to achieve success.
  • The organisation has strong partnerships with its external stakeholders based on trust and confidentiality.
  • It is fantastic that at each monthly stakeholder meeting there is a review of services and programs North Coast has on offer.
  • North Coast has a strong commitment to the quality and accessibility of its services.

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