Reece Harley

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About Reece Harley

Reece is Managing Director of the National Indigenous Times Group - Australia’s leading Indigenous news media organisation. The National Indigenous Times operates a daily news website in addition to a monthly printed newspaper which is read by around 2.3 million Australians per edition. as well as the Indigenous Business Review - a glossy, bi-monthly magazine, distributed as an insert in The Australian, The West Australian and Qantas lounges nationally.

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The rock climbing wall kids killed with red dots

Key points: Doomadgee secured a second year of consultation on its new hospital after rejecting Queensland Health's twelve-month timeline. More than half the community's power now comes from a local...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Jun 10, 2026
Indigenous mining contractor Cundaline Resources placed in liquidation

Key points: The Pilbara contracting success story was founded on the back of Fortescue's billion-dollar Aboriginal procurement push. Company carries the legacy of one of WA's pioneering Indigenous e...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Jun 10, 2026
Aboriginal people still struggling to raise capital against their own land

Key points:- In the mainstream economy, money cycles five to seven times. In the black economy, twice- A Kimberley woman makes funeral flowers at cost so grieving families don't carry the burden- "Who...

Reece Harley Reece Harley May 27, 2026
Indigenous Business Australia now 89 per cent self-funded

Key points:- The home loan book is 50 years old and now in its fourth generation of repayments- $2.8 billion under management, 5,618 customers, and legal powers finally unlocked to raise outside capit...

Reece Harley Reece Harley May 27, 2026
'We're the sleeping giant': Natasha Short sets 20 per cent procurement target

Key Points:- The Kimberley is 40 per cent Aboriginal. Only 10 per cent of its businesses are.- "If you had $50,000, you'd give it to an Aboriginal organisation before you gave it to an Aboriginal busi...

Reece Harley Reece Harley May 27, 2026
Building the table: Kimberley voices on the future of Indigenous business

Key Points- Australia's big banks refused to lend to an Aboriginal pastoral company on standard terms, and it had nothing to do with the books.

Reece Harley Reece Harley May 26, 2026
The $5.4 billion question for the Kimberley

Key Points:- The Kimberley's Indigenous business sector has hit 230 enterprises and ten per cent of the regional economy, with 90 new operators in four years.- A $5.

Reece Harley Reece Harley May 26, 2026
'We've always been business people' - Dion Devow on culture, courage and Black excellence

Key Points- How a cleaner's son from Darwin became ACT Australian of the Year - Why his mother begged him to change the name of his first business- The $16 billion figure Devow says every Australian s...

Reece Harley Reece Harley May 26, 2026
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