‘It’s devastating’: Redfern’s National Centre of Indigenous Excellence to close after negotiations fail

Traumatic day' for workers as social enterprise hub suddenly shuts one month after land divestment

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A social enterprise hub providing health and wellbeing services for Indigenous people in Sydney has suddenly closed, one month after the site was divested from the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation to the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.

The decision to shut the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) came after the ILSC failed to reach an agreement with the land council on the Redfern hub's future, the recently appointed CEO of the NCIE, Jasmine Ryan, said.