Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has used a Prime Minister Turnbull visit to Brisbane on Friday to hail the work of Camooweal’s Dugalunji Aboriginal Corporation’s managing director Colin Saltmere. At the announcement of a $115m Indigenous Entrepreneurs Package, Senator Scullion referenced Mr Saltmere as “an example of Indigenous innovation and entrepreneurship”. Dugalungi is working with UQ to create spinifex-based condoms.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
