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Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly celebrates 20 years in Cobar on 20 June 2024, with celebrations and presntations.

 Members thrilled to meet John Moriarty and Preston Campbell.

Maari Ma Aboriginal Health Corporation has congratulated the new Chair of the Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly (MPRA), Des Jones.

The chairman of an Indigenous body in far west New South Wales has criticised the role of police in the region, saying they are contributing to social disadvantage.

The peak Indigenous governance body in western NSW, the Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly (MPRA) was one of two winners in this year’s Indigenous Governance Awards.

Following a rigorous judging process, Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation (Western Desert Dialysis) was selected as the winner of the Category A Award for incorporated organisations, while Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly (Murdi Paaki) was honoured as winner of the Category B Award for non-incorporated projects.

The Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly (MPRA) believes not enough change will happen in the local government reform of the Far West and it is calling for a more innovative model to take the region into the future.

Chairperson, Sam Jeffries, Delegate Coonamble Community Working Party Chair Ted Fernando and two Young Leader delegates, Nikki Orcher and Charlee-Sue Frail attended the Reconciliation Australia National Governance Awards in Melbourne in October representing the Assembly as finalists in the Awards.

Eight of Australia’s top Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations have been selected from a record pool of nominees in the prestigious 2012 Indigenous Governance Awards (IGAs).

Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly has been nominated as one(1) of three (3) finalists for the Category B- Indigenous Governance Award from Reconciliation Australia!