Julie Hayden is a Goreng woman born in Katanning in the Great Southern Region of WA. She brings a wealth of knowledge and a vast range of experience to the Badgebup Aboriginal Corporation. She has a working background of ten years in the WA Department of Aboriginal Affairs and another nine years in various staffing roles in the Resources Industry, including Indigenous Human Resource Advisor, Project Manager, Trainer/Assessor, Training Facilitator, Supervisor and Mentor.
Aboriginal culture is intrinsically linked with food, and we are using our Merintj Bushfood program to inspire our next generation of Noongar Rangers. Graduates from our Aboriginal Ranger Program are working with Goreng and Minang Elders to source a variety of bushfoods to develop unique bushfood menus for our Kambarang Noongar Tour, which includes a round trip from Katanning, to Kojonup, Gnowangerup and Badgebup.
We're bringing back the connections between our stories and our local Noongar people.
In healing our land we're actually healing ourselves. In improving attitudes and lives for our local Noongars we're adding value to our community and building a solid foundation on which to build better lives for our kids too.
It's important to realise that culture, land and people are not seperate - they're all inextricably linked.
Julie is now engaged as Business Development Manager with the corporation and is responsible for developing sustainable partnerships for the organisations land-based enterprises.
She is an integral member of the Katanning Noongar Leadership Group and continues to drive the agenda for change in the Central Great Southern Region.
A large part of our work within the Great Southern's landscapes is restoring and revegetating large areas or degraded farmland. To do this work it's incredibly important that we have reliable teams and labour forces. The team work that we have been able to develop between staff and the Badgebup Aboriginal Corporation has been absolutely wonderful.
We very much value the engagement and the work to date with Badgebup Aboriginal Corporation. They've been a key labour solution for us to provide some fantastic on-ground work.
