Anthropos Australis WA Pty Ltd

10/10/2023

At the Pilbara 2923 Conference with industry, community and Traditional owner leaders from around the Pilbara.

03/10/2023

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19/08/2016

The Warrwa Applicants had a meeting in Broome on Wednesday 17th August 2016 to discuss a number of Future Acts within their native title claim boundary. The meeting was facilitated by Jonathan Fulcher and Ruby Reyner of Hopgood Ganim, who are their legal advisers. Also attending was Nic Green of Anthropos Australis (WA) PL, who is the heritage manager for the Warrwa native title claimant group. Patricia Juboy opened the meeting by acknowledging the Yawuru people as the Traditional Owners.

The meeting dealt with a number of matters, with the most significant one being a presentation by Kevin Wilson of Rey Lennard Shelf PL, who is now the operator for a major Oil and Gas Exploration Tenement that covers a portion of the native title claim. The meeting discussed the application of a Heritage Protection Agreement to apply to the company's proposed exploration programme in 2016. The meeting was very informative and significant progress was made in a spirit of collaboration. Watch this space.

Additionally, Anthropos Australis was officially appointed as the Agent for Warrwa on all cultural heritage matters pertaining to third party proponents seeking to access and use Warrwa country for exploration, mining and other development purposes. Nic Green advised that he was very honoured to be able to continue to provide a service to Warrwa to protect their heritage rights and interests.

If you have any questions on any of the matters discussed in the meeting, please contact Ruby Reyner at [email protected] or 07 30240395.

05/08/2015

03/08/2015

Friday the 31st July marked a significant day for the Warrwa Traditional Owners as they participated in a Claimant Group Authorisation Meeting in Broome facilitated by the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) Representative Body to bring together the Mawadjala Gadjidgar Point Torment and the larger Warrwa Combined Native Title Claims. The all day meeting was well attended by Warrwa Traditional Owners, many of whom came from Darwin, Derby, Port Hedland, Karratha, Mullewa and Perth.

Prior to the Meeting, the Mawadjala Gadjidgar claimant group was represented by the KLC and the Warrwa Combined claimant group was represented by Hopgood Ganim Lawyers, Jonathan Fulcher and Kylie Pankhust, with Nicholas Green of Anthropos Australis WA Pty Ltd undertaking the latter’s heritage survey work.

Given the two native title claims are within Warrwa’s traditional country, it made sense for the claims to come together, not combined, in order to fast track the research required for the Connection Report, which the KLC is best place to manage given that they receive funding from the Commonwealth for this purpose.

After much discussion, the Warrwa Traditional Owners agreed to appoint 6 Applicants for each of the native title claims, for the KLC to represent them for the purpose of researching and prosecuting the claims, for Hopgood Ganim to manage the Future Acts and for Anthropos Australis WA Pty Ltd to manage the heritage survey work.

A considerable amount of trust and goodwill was shown by the Warrwa Traditional Owners in accepting the new arrangement as the way forward to protect Warrwa’s rights and interests.

13/07/2015

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08/07/2015

The Weeli Wolli Creek Co-Management Board is run collaboratively by the Nyiyaparli and Banyjima Members and Elders with a major mining company who monitor their country and the ecology of the Weeli Wolli Creek, located approximately 90km south west of Newman. Anthropos Australis facilitates and administers the Board meetings, which are held on country at Hope Downs in the Pilbara every 3 months.

05/06/2015

Anthropos Australis (WA) Pty Ltd recently joined forces with Adelaide based company, MLCS Corporate Pty Ltd, to submit a joint proposal to the Yinhawangka Aboriginal Corporation in Paraburdoo.

The Corporation sought joint quotations from heritage service providers and business development firms to develop a Business Plan and a Transition Plan for the heritage services currently being undertaken on their behalf from the Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) Representative Body back to the Yinhawangka people to manage as they see fit.

Our firms are jointly proud to announce that we have been awarded the work to develop the Plans for the Corporation and will be working collaboratively to ensure the proper, timely and cost effective transition of knowledge back to the Yinhawangka People.

“This process, which enables the Yinhawangka People to have a far greater say in the protection and management of their cultural heritage rights and interests is one of the many steps that they are taking to achieve true self determination for their Corporation and themselves” said Nic Green (CEO of Anthropos Australis) and Paul Case (Director of MLCS Corporate).

03/12/2014

The Warrwa (combined) native title claimants have just successfully recorded their first significant site, with the assistance of Anthropos Australis (WA) PL their heritage service providers, since registering their native title claim, which is a huge step forward for the Warrwa people in managing their heritage into the future.

The significant site was located during a heritage survey the Warrwa people completed last week under a Heritage Protection Agreement established with the support of Kylie Panckhusrt and Jonathan Fulcher of Hopgood Ganim with Main Roads Western Australia along the Gibb River Road outside of Derby. The site, located just inside the western boundary of Kimberley Downs Station, includes many grinding patches, Gnamma holes and a rock shelter along a large ridgeline, forming an island of high ground in an otherwise very flat sandy pindan plain. Importantly, the rock shelter has a sandy floor and if excavated, it may provide a timeline when the ancestors of the Warrwa people occupied the site which would add a significant chapter to the archaeological record of human occupation in the Kimberley region.

The Warrwa people stated that “we are amazed at the quantity of grinding patches and Gnamma holes and that our old people must have used the rock shelter. We need to make sure the whole area [ridgeline] is protected”.

Warrwa country contains few registered Aboriginal sites and only one of which includes grinding patches. The Warrwa people who participated in the Survey (including one Warrwa person who volunteered to assist) conducted the Survey of the proposed widening of the Gibb River Road efficiently and with true professionalism, alongside Ian Scott and Shannon Smith of our firm.

Marni Baetge (the Main Roads Environmental Officer) and Michael Hickling (the Main Roads Project Manager) based in Derby, acknowledged and appreciated the efficiency of the Warrwa heritage survey and the hard work by the Warrwa people and our staff in the commencement of the wet season, bringing hot, humid conditions.

Ian Scott and Shannon Smith were thrilled with the co-operation and collaboration shown by the Warrwa people as well as the assistance and support provided by Marni and Michael, that resulted in a successful heritage survey, which will enable Main Roads to commence the upgrade of the Gibb River Road in 2015.

"This was an extremely important trip for the Warrwa people, a very small group, who have only just recently managed to stake their claim in the Kimberley. To conduct a heritage survey to such a high standard, which is not normally seen in the Kimberley, and to record such a unique significant site within the Warrwa claim area is an important step forward for all Warrwa people. The fact that the Warrwa people are allowing us to be part of their journey is a humbling experience," Ian said.

Anthropos Australis is proud to be the Warrwa’s heritage service provider and we congratulate the Warrwa people with the successful combination of the Warrwa #1 and Warrwa #2 native title claims by the National Native Title Tribunal, streamlining the Warrwa people’s native title processes to ensure that they can provide an ongoing cost effective service to the town of Derby and its environs.

11/11/2014

We are pleased to announce that Kirsty Potts and two Ngarluma Consultants recently conducted the Return to Country of the cultural material excavated from the Ngurin #1 archaeological site, as the final output from our project entitled ‘The Excavation of Ngurin #1 – Sharing Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Heritage’. The Return to Country was conducted with the support, co-operation and involvement of, and under the cultural direction of, members of the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation and the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation. We have completed our statutory reporting on the project for the State and we intend to publish the results of the excavation and analysis soon.

We would like to thank the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation, the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, the Ngarluma Elders Committee, the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi communities for their support and encouragement, as well as the Department of Environment and the Ngarluma Tharndu Karrunga Maya Limited who have contributed funding to this Project and we are very grateful for their support.

11/11/2014

We are pleased to update you on the Anketell Project, which Anthropos Australis and the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation have been working collaboratively on this year for the Department of State Development. Since our last update on the Anketell Project several months ago, the archaeological Survey Team, which comprise Kirsty Potts, Shannon Smith and Ian Scott working with four Ngarluma Consultants, have examined a total of 43 km2 and have recorded over 160 Aboriginal Heritage Locations (Aboriginal sites). This has been a fantastic result and a great effort by the archaeological Survey Team, who have worked tirelessly to record the Survey area.

The final Field Trip, due to start shortly, will be an Ethnographic Survey led by Nicholas Green and assisted by Kirsty Potts with the Ngarluma Elders.

05/11/2014

It's happening at Hodgson Downs

Spotlight on, November 2014 Alawa Aboriginal Corporation (ICN 3358) Hodgson Downs Community/Minyerri, Northern Territory: If you drive about 270 kilometres south-east of Katherine towards the Hodgson River you’ll arrive at the remote community of Hodgson Downs, also known as Minyerrri. It may be rem…