Aboriginal Australia

The Statewide Cultural Corridors Project and The Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice, Fremantle

Nidja Nyoongar Boodjar Noonook Nyininy.
(This is Nyoongar country; you are sitting in it.)

The Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice, Fremantle accepted in late 2008 an invitation from Aboriginal elders to become a principal partner – with the South-West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council - in one of the largest Aboriginal-run projects in Western Australian history.

The project straddles eight major fields, with the first (Cultural Corridors) being a juvenile justice diversionary program.  Together, the eight projects aim at nothing less than the full revival of Aboriginal people in Western Australia, as well as new forms of partnership with, and learning from, Aboriginal people by the rest of the population.

Initiated within Nyoongar Western Australia, these projects built so much momentum and excitement during 2009 that a decision was made – urged by WA’s judiciary - that they ‘go Statewide’.

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