Wheatbelt NRM has been working with the Brookton Noongar community to commemorate the significance of an old ceremonial ground at nearby Nalya/King’s Chair.

The site was registered by local Aboriginal Elders with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 1990, as a very significant site to Noongar people.

Noongar community members have worked with Wheatbelt NRM to develop a unique plaque that recognises the site’s importance as well as the Noongar families who have lived in and around Brookton, past, present and future.

Local Elder King George McGuire – who was ‘King for the Day’ – launched the plaque with around 50 people attending from the Noongar community, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Shire of Brookton, local farmers and the wider community.

Wheatbelt NRM plans to continue working with the whole community to hear and record their stories of significance, before collectively deciding on future plans for the site.

IMAGE - left to right - Noongar Elders Fay Slater, George McGuire (seated on King's Chair), Olive Bennell Laurie Collard

IMAGE - King's Chair near Brookton