News Articles for Yurra

Woodside has awarded contracts to build another 30 homes in Karratha for its residential workforce.

Fast-growing indigenous business Yurra, which boasts annual revenue of about $150 million, has commenced a process to identify a strategic equity partner to join the founding shareholders.

Increased contracting opportunities with big miners and government procurement programs underpin growth of the sector.

Pilbara contractor Yurra has won a $66 million contract with Rio Tinto adding to a pipeline of work with Main Roads WA, Woodside and its recycling joint venture with Sims.

Three of WA's largest indigenous businesses have recorded substantial revenue increases, but labour costs are eating into profits.

Woodside Energy is planning to build 30 new homes in Karratha to house its workers as industrial construction projects ramp up.

The Aboriginal group enmeshed in a royalties dispute with Andrew Forrest is building multiple commercial enterprises in the Pilbara.

Business groups in the Pilbara have called for more investment in affordable housing to help their members recruit staff and take advantage of the looming investment boom in the region.

Two businesses accounted for nearly half the value of all state government contracts awarded to Aboriginal businesses last financial year.

A specialist training facility has opened at Muresk Institute, a major part of the $10.3 million upgrade for the Northam agricultural centre.

Rio Tinto has signed an updated agreement with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation that will result in a substantial increase in compensation payments and commercial opportunities.

Indigenous businesses in WA generated more than $1 billion in revenue last year and the total is set to rise.

Carey Mining was one of the first private Aboriginal contractors to be established in Australia and it's still going strong.

Fortescue Metals Group's recent awarding of $179 million in contracts to Aboriginal businesses highlights two different approaches to indigenous development.

Rio Tinto has awarded $110 million in new contracts for its Pilbara operations, with the beneficiaries including indigenous contractor Yurra and global mining services firm FLSmidth.

McCorkell Constructions has been awarded a $1.6 million contract to perform stage B of the Perth Zoo lion exhibit upgrade.

Two indigenous business joint ventures have been awarded a combined $5.9 million worth of contracts in the Pilbara.

Recent annual meetings have failed to resolve long-running divisions at two of WA's most important Aboriginal corporations.

Indigenous contracting in the Pilbara is getting more competitive, more complicated and arguably more divisive, as players chase a shrinking pool of work.