Shared Responsibility Agreements

Shared Responsibility Agreement

The Marta Marta community is a small extended family group near South Hedland who want to set up a business selling sorghum to nearby cattle stations and native shrubs to a local mining company.

The community has signed an SRA that will help them establish grain farming and expand current farming activities.

The Australian Government will fund the purchase of grain and seedlings and tools for preparing the ground, and help with training. The Government will also organise for power to be connected to the bore pump for irrigation. Indigenous Community Volunteers will provide advice and training.

The community will participate in agricultural training, maintain the crops and shrubs, and look after the infrastructure and equipment.

Income will be put back into the business and go towards providing community jobs.

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Key Facts

Small remote Indigenous community in the Pilbara, 50 km E of South Hedland

Population:

Around 15

Focus of the SRA:

Economic development through agriculture

What the SRA provides:

Grain and seedlings; infrastructure; specialist advice

ICC:

South Hedland

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