ORIC DEREGISTERS HUNDREDS OF ABORIGINAL CORPORATIONS

More than 300 Aboriginal corporations have been deregistered for failing to lodge reports. Credit: Envato Elements.

Australia’s Registrar for Aboriginal corporations has deregistered more than 300 organisations for failing to lodge annual reports.

In October last year, the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations, Tricia Stroud, gave notice to 371 corporations for failing to lodge reports for the last two years.

324 of these corporations did not respond, have now been deregistered and will no longer have legal standing, according to a statement from the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC).

If you’re someone who deals with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations I encourage you to keep abreast of their registration status and reporting compliance by checking the public register,” Ms Stroud said.

“There is no fee to access the public register.”

86 of the deregistered corporations were from Western Australia, including 11 from South Hedland and 21 from Kununurra.

The registration status of any corporation can be checked on the ORIC website.