Kirrawe Indigenous Corporation

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Kirrawe Indigenous Corporation Kirrawe is a not-for-profit Charity, with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. We also train positive role models as mentors for our youth.

Kirrawe Indigenous Corporation provides culturally responsive services to First Nations peoples living between Logan and the Gold Coast QLD. The Corporation is a registered Charity and has Public Benevolent Institution and Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. Through holistic service delivery, we work with First Nations peoples living with the impact of intergenerational trauma, giving a ‘hand up' not a ‘hand out’; sharing tools to strengthen the spirit and empower the soul. Through KIMS our mentoring program, we take youth on camps to connect them to Country and to make them proud to be First Nations youth.

BREAKING NEWS: Kirrawe has been nominated for the 7NEWS Qld Family and Child Commission Dedicated to Supporting Young Qu...
18/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Kirrawe has been nominated for the 7NEWS Qld Family and Child Commission Dedicated to Supporting Young Queenslanders Award - for our Walama Ngurra Bangaba Program and the work we have done with young people!!!

Is mainstream schooling not working for your young person?Walama Ngurra Bangaba offers a different way to learn—with sma...
12/09/2026

Is mainstream schooling not working for your young person?
Walama Ngurra Bangaba offers a different way to learn—with small-group sessions, cultural connection, individual support, and a safe, welcoming environment.

11/09/2026
Congratulations to Kirrawe Ambassador Kane Munt on your awesome achievement!https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1222061...
22/06/2026

Congratulations to Kirrawe Ambassador Kane Munt on your awesome achievement!

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🏆 Congratulations to the Winner of the 2026 Kennelly Constructions Pty Ltd Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Achievement Award, Kane Munt!

Kane Munt of Springfield Lakes is a proud young leader from Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait Islands, whose work spans cultural mentorship, youth advocacy, and national Indigenous representation. As 2026 Culture Captain and leader of the First Nations dance group at St Peter Claver College, NRL Indigenous Youth Ambassador for 2025–2026, Kirrawe Ambassador, and volunteer with Nana Magic as a First Nations children's entertainer, Kane creates culturally safe spaces where young people feel seen, valued, and proud of their heritage. He has represented his community at the NRL All Stars Indigenous Round in New Zealand and spoken at the Māori Rugby League Youth Summit, and advocates for children in care through the Groundswell Younger People Advisory Group, consulting with organisations like QATSIPP to embed Elders in decision-making. His own journey of reconnecting with culture — including travelling to the Torres Strait — deeply informs the way he supports other young mob to find their identity and their path.

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19/06/2026

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A 9 YEAR OLD BOY IN PRISON

A nine-year-old was locked up for running away to find his mum. That boy was me.

I want to tell you how a criminal gets made, because I watched it happen to me and hundreds of others from the inside.

I was six when my dad ran off with the babysitter. My mum turned to alcohol and to men, and she chose them over her own children. I ended up in children’s homes, in foster families, made a ward of the state. And I couldn’t understand it. I’d lie there as a seven, eight, nine-year-old asking why every other kid got their mum and dad and I didn’t. All I wanted was to run up the hallway and jump into bed for a cuddle. That’s it. That was my whole dream.

At nine, I was locked in a prison facility. Not for committing a crime. For running away, running, over and over again until they got sick of me running, all I wanted was to find my mum and dad.

In those homes I met other kids with stories just like mine. They understood my pain when no adult did. They became my family and they were also doing things I’d never done, drugs I’d never seen, crimes I’d never committed. So I learned. Because that’s what a hurt child does: he copies the only people who make him feel like he belongs.

By 16 I had spent 7 years in and out of Longmore, by 16 I was in Riverbank for 2 years. By my adult life I’d been through every prison there is in WA, 26 years, in and out. At my worst I was selling two and a half kilos of m**h a day.

Every prediction made about that frightened little boy came true. Not because he was born bad. Because the system took a child whose only crime was missing his parents, surrounded him with broken kids, and taught him to be a criminal.

No one is born this way. It gets put there. Remember that boy as we go, because there are thousands of him sitting in facilities right now.

Below is a photo when I was 14

What’s your thoughts…?

Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺

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7/3972 Pacific Highway
Loganholme, QLD
3972

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