Local Aboriginal Participation – Lennard Shelf

Lennard Shelf

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The high concentration of mining activity in Western Australia was making the Lennard Shelf Operation’s employee recruitment and retention especially challenging, but the local aboriginal community, who represented the richest labour pool in the region, had suffered a series of negative experiences with previous mine operators, and were reluctant to engage.

General Manager Dan Gignac realized that the Operation’s existing heritage agreement with the Goonyandi Traditional Landowner Group needed to be revisited; the agreement contained a broad commitment to “maximize” local participation through employment, but this had proven difficult to achieve.