KRED takes on young Indigenous trainee

Kianee (Kiki) D’Anna developed a taste for the wheeling and dealing of the KRED offices while she was still a student in year 12.

Although she attended school in Wyndham, she spent her school holidays in Broome, working casually at KRED as an Administration Officer.

KRED was so impressed with her skills she was offered a traineeship with the organisation and given the impressive job title: Junior Personal Assistant to the General Counsel of the Ambooriny Burru Group of Companies (KRED).

“It’s been a good opportunity, more than what most year 12 students would probably get,” Kianee says.

Since she started full-time she’s been busy filing, penning the minutes of meetings and learning about time billing. As if this weren’t enough, she’s on a mission to learn even more.

“My computer skills are good—but not as good as I’d like them to be. That’s what I’m hoping to work on in the coming months.”

Kianee will also be building her skills at the Kimberley Training Institute one day a week, where she is studying Business Administration.

Merrilee Powers, KRED’s Operations and Logistics Manager, has been appointed as Kianee’s in-office mentor.

She recognises the importance of creating economic opportunities for local Indigenous young people.

“Kianee is a young Indigenous woman of the Kimberley. We understand it’s important to invest in both the personal and professional growth of our mob,” Merrilee says.

KRED Enterprises is dedicated to building and sustaining independent Aboriginal economic development.

KRED concerned Buru’s drilling given ‘green’ light

KRED Enterprises is concerned by reports that Buru Energy need not undergo a formal environmental assessment for its proposed drilling activities in the Canning Basin.

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) wrote to Buru Energy stating that drilling is ‘unlikely to have a significant effect on the environment.’

This means the company is a step closer to fracking for shale gas.

KRED Enterprise’s CEO Wayne Bergmann says the decision has been made rashly and without consideration of the cumulative effect Buru’s activities will have on the whole life of the Canning Basin.

“This is not about one or two holes. This is about substantive exploration over a massive land area. Tests or drilling at this stage have to be scrutinised to meet the highest environmental standards. This is because these tests will form the baseline data for all other activities,” Mr Bergmann says.

The EPA stated the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum and the Department of Water would mitigate any potential impacts of Buru’s exploration work.

You can read the full report in the news article ‘Buru Closer to Kimberley Drill’ by Andrew Burrell in the The Australian newspaper online.