Our Board

Our Senior Executive Team

Mai Wiru Leaders

Proudly Governed Through Experienced Board Members

Our Senior Executive Team and Board Members have extensive experience in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and they are passionate about making a difference in our communities. They bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table, and they are committed to improving health outcomes for all Australians. We are confident that our team are well-equipped to provide vital support to regional communities and to improve the health and wellbeing of our indigenous people.

Robert Stevens

Senior Executive Officer

Denis Bate

CEO

Corinne Scholz

General Manager

Our Board

Governance

The Mai Wiru Region­al Stores Coun­cil Abo­rig­i­nal Cor­po­ra­tion (Mai Wiru) is an unfund­ed not for prof­it organ­i­sa­tion which is reg­is­tered as a char­i­ty by the Aus­tralian Tax­a­tion Office. It oper­ates under the aus­pices of the Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander Com­mu­ni­ties (Jus­tice, Land and Oth­er Mat­ters) Act 1984. The role of Mai Wiru is to pro­vide good qual­i­ty, nutri­tious food to the com­mu­ni­ties of the APY Lands, SA and NT Regions at the low­est pos­si­ble prices. Mai Wiru cur­rent­ly oper­ates nine retail stores and an Indige­nous hos­pi­tal­i­ty busi­ness through­out SA, NT, and the APY Lands.

The Board recog­nis­es that with the growth of new stores and busi­ness inter­ests, the organ­i­sa­tion must con­tin­ue to adapt the way it does busi­ness to achieve sus­tain­abil­i­ty and good trad­ing results.
In 2018 the Board restruc­tured Mai Wiru to pro­vide the organ­i­sa­tion with per­son­nel and poli­cies that would allow it to grow and diver­si­fy into the future, ensur­ing a sus­tain­able ser­vice which rep­re­sents both inter­ests and peo­ple of the com­mu­ni­ties it serves.

The Board appoint­ed a new Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer (CEO) and instruct­ed him to exam­ine, in detail, the oper­a­tions of the organ­i­sa­tion and revi­tal­ize the organ­i­sa­tion and bring it to a posi­tion where it was able to car­ry out its man­date whilst ensur­ing it remained finan­cial­ly viable.

This has been achieved with the added ben­e­fit that MWRSCAC is now com­mit­ted to best busi­ness prac­tice sys­tems and has sophis­ti­cat­ed process­es in place that have been designed to oper­ate effec­tive­ly in remote areas.

Yuminiya Ken

Director

Aaron Shannon

Director

Tony Paddy

Director

Robert Stevens

Senior Executive Officer

Maxie Stevens

Director

Lee Patrick Brady

Director

Michael Nils Fordham

Director

Shane Radbone

Director

Joseph Tapaya

Director