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Waalitj Foundation has won Not For Profit/Charity of the Year for improving opportunities for Indigenous Australians.

Complete Home Filtration, Pharmacy 777, and Fremantle Dockers Football Club were among the winners of the 2024 WA Business Awards.

Prominent Indigenous advocate Kado Muir hopes the launch of a new technology company will be a catalyst for an outback Goldfields town to become a digital jobs hub.

Data from Waalitj Hub reveals the professions Indigenous entrepreneurs are taking up in WA, with arts and construction proving attractive

Aboriginal businesses need to be afforded opportunities to form joint ventures on billion-dollar contracts to build the family wealth required to drive change.

A new program to address shortcomings in Aboriginal business joint venture deals has been launched by the Waalitj Hub

Indigenous business leaders have shared their stories and set an agenda to achieve more progress in the fast-growing sector.

Alcoa Foundation has committed a further $655,000 to not-for-profit Waalitj Foundation's employment and business support programs over the next three years.

Companies wanting to engage with Aboriginal businesses have been urged to look past their unconscious bias and think more widely about the opportunities.

Former AFL footballer and Wirrpanda Foundation executive Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls is off to a flying start in the business sector, after establishing Oaks Civil Construction and buying a traffic management business in Geraldton.

A new services hub backed by the Wirrpanda Foundation and $10 million of government funding aims to fill market gaps for indigenous businesses.

Brookfield has celebrated the start of building work at Chevron's new $360 million headquarters at Elizabeth Quay by unveiling an investment partner in the landmark project.

Wesfarmers' newly announced partnership with Rowing WA is part of a broad range of sports-related community programs gaining popularity in WA.

Companies as diverse as multinational Konica Minolta and local startup Kirrikin are operating as both for-profit and for-purpose businesses.

Majority Aboriginal-owned business Wilco Electrical recently secured distributorship across the state for cutting-edge US technology that draws water from air.

Local innovators and resources industry professionals, including Karara Mining, Barminco and Fortescue Metals Group, were recognised at two separate awards ceremonies held this week.

Training and employment schemes targeting indigenous workers are slowly gaining traction.

Fortescue Metals Group has set an ambitious target of having Aboriginal workers fill 20 per cent of all trades positions in its workforce, on the back of an apprenticeship program launched today.

The Wirrpanda Foundation, which is one of nine Western Australian groups pioneering a new indigenous training and employment program in the state, has put contractors who over promise and under deliver on notice.