Shared Responsibility Agreements

Shared Responsibility Agreement

The Mulan community is part of the East Kimberley Council of Australian Governments (COAG) trial and has previously signed two SRAs. In March 2004, an SRA was signed focusing on sports equipment and healthy activities for young people, and in July 2004 another was signed to renovate a cultural centre to promote women’s culture.

The community is experienced in dealing with government and wanted to build on the previous SRAs to increase tourism in the area and improve children’s health.

Under the third SRA the Australian Government is funding the installation of fuel bowsers both for the convenience of the community and to cater for tourists visiting nearby Lake Gregory (Paruku).

More tourist stops will allow the community to benefit from related businesses such as arts and crafts, cultural tours, camping and bird watching.

To improve the health of their children, families have been working to ensure kids shower and wash their faces on a daily basis. This has already led to reduced rates of trachoma. Families are also making sure their kids get to school, crèche or the health clinic on time.

Families are reducing rubbish around their homes and the community corporation is focusing on getting rents paid on time, to fund better home maintenance and more regular waste removal and pest control.

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Key Facts

Remote Indigenous community in the East Kimberley

Population:

Around 150

Focus of the SRA:

Tourism and child health

What the SRA provides:

Petrol bowsers (dispensing Opal, the non-sniffable substitute fuel)

ICC:

Kununurra

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