ABOUT US

A small, hard-working Indigenous consultancy group based in Perth Western Australia. Established in 2008, we hit

the ground running with our direct approach in educating the community on Indigenous culture. We specialize in Indigenous education, cultural competency and communication development, and we can offer our clients flexible training packages.

Simon Forrest has been involved in Aboriginal Cultural Awareness courses since 1985 and range from groups as diverse as a group of Catholic Nuns in retreat to cadets at the WA Police Academy. The most constant “Cultural Awareness” courses that Mr Forrest conducts are the Aboriginal Studies units and courses that he has taught at university level to undergraduate and postgraduate non Indigenous students since 1983. Aboriginal Cultural Awareness courses have been delivered by Mr Forrest to various organisations since 1985 but since 1998 he has delivered the Department of Education and Training’s Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Course “Our Story” to School Principals, Administrators, teachers and other school staff on nearly 100 occasions.

In areas of work where contact and dealings with Aboriginal people and children is common the organisation should encourage and even mandate Aboriginal cultural training for their staff (Health, Education and justice among others). The course we deliver will enhance your contact and dealings with Aboriginal clients in a social justice context to ensure all non-Indigenous Australians have a good working knowledge of Aboriginal society and culture.

Roni Gray Forrest is the Director of Wildfire. Roni's family ties are Noongar-Ngadju. Roni has extensive experience within the education and Aboriginal heritage sector. She has been engaged as a consultant on Aboriginal heritage and been involved in documenting Aboriginal sites on the south coast and coordinated the protection burial and other sites in the south west. Roni has graduated with a Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Sector Management from Edith Cowan University.

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From an early age Roni developed a keen interest in her family’s history. Over the years her passion in the family history area has resulted in her researching, documenting and collecting a large resource about her family and other Noongar families. She has been involved in and coordinating the research and publication of social and oral histories from the south coastal region of W.A.

Roni also developed a passion for bush tucker. She has coordinated bush tucker gardens at local schools, catered bush tucker dinners and is highly regarded as proficient in bush tucker knowledge.

Roni is very active in Aboriginal community issues and serves on local Geraldton committees in the fields of arts, social welfare and tertiary education. Roni is the Foundation Chair of the Marra Aboriginal Arts Corporation in Geraldton, Inaugural Convener of the Geraldton NAIDOC Awards and Foundation Member of the Yarramoup Aboriginal Corporation on the South Coast WA.