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

A health and wellbeing service for Indigenous people in Sydney has closed after the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation failed to reach agreement with the NSW Aboriginal Land Council. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP

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.