Commercial

The Yindjibarndi people have for the past decade pursued nation building commercial partnerships that have delivered financial benefits to the community together with jobs and training opportunities.

The Yindjibarndi businesses are majority owned by Yindjibarndi Wealth Pty Ltd, which is in turn owned by the community and commercial trust, YCCL. The trust was established in 2013 to provide long term community and commercial for the Yindjibarndi people.

Yurra Pty Ltd is a successful contracting business operating since 2013, generating approximately $165 million in revenue and employing around 400 people, with an average of 30 per cent Aboriginal employment. From its beginnings in cleaning and landscaping, Yurra has grown into a diversified company delivering construction and major service contracts for multinational corporations and government agencies.

Yindjibarndi Wealth owns 50 percent of the WA operations of Jina Rent A Car, which is majority owned by First Nations peoples – the Yindjibarndi People of the Pilbara, WA, and the Far West Coast peoples of South Australia. Jina operates across four sites in WA and five sites in SA.

In mid-2023, we established Yiyangu – a 100% Yindjibarndi Wealth owned entity to lead our renewable energy portfolio.  Yiyangu has since partnered with ACEN, an international leader in renewable energy, to create Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation which represents one of the largest Indigenous-led renewable energy initiatives in Australia, and seeks to develop, construct and operate renewable energy and storage projects on Yindjibarndi Ngurra (country). YEC is pursuing up to 3GW in capacity of wind, solar and energy storage projects across an area covering approximately 13,000 km² within the Yindjibarndi Native Title Determination Areas.

Water infrastructure is high on our agenda given that the City of Karratha and mining and industrial companies draw heavily on Yindjibarndi water resources around the Millstream area. The Ngurra that feeds Millstream is determined as having exclusive native title rights. To this end, Yindjibarndi Water has been created to develop water infrastructure and water treatment technologies.