Remote Indigenous community in South Australia growing money from trees

Two men hold bags of acacia chopped for firewood.

John Buckskin and John Bridley with bags of acacia chopped for firewood. Source: Supplied / Andrew Alderson

In the remote South Australian Aboriginal community Yalata employment is a challenge. The community is located ten hours north-west of Adelaide on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain. It’s striving to become financially self-sufficient with community owned enterprises and it's found a way to create jobs from thousands of dead trees.


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