GROWING TOGETHER

Within First Nations communities, there is an idea known as nypagi nypagi: a win-win situation. Nypagi nypagi beats at the heart of Red Centre Enterprises, a business established in 2014 by Jiman-Bundjalung elder Yuandamarra and his wife Nadia Kiely to help Aboriginal agribusinesses grow and flourish. This thinking doesn’t just influence how the couple works with Indigenous communities: nypagi nypagi also extends to their relationships with non-Indigenous partners.

“We enter into joint ventures because they’re exactly that,” says Yuandamarra. “We don’t run around saying we’re an Aboriginal business: it’s an Australian business and an Aboriginal business working together. Part