Patron

Colleen Hayward

Colleen Hayward is a senior Noongar woman with extensive family links throughout the south-west of WA. She comes from a teaching family with her father having been the first Aboriginal teacher, and Principal, in WA. For more than 35 years, Colleen has provided significant input to policies and programs on a wide range of issues, […]

Bill Dempsey

Bill is an icon of Australian Rules Football. He debuted for the West Perth Football Club in 1960, and by the time he retired 16 years later, he had played 343 games for the cardinals. He made some significant history at the club, winning a best and fairest in 1966, the Simpson medal in 1969 […]

Syd Jackson

Syd is an AFL legend whose story is inspiring, yet heartbreaking especially when hearing it told by Syd himself. Making it from South Bunbury Football club, to East Perth in the WAFL and all the way to Carlton Football Club in 1968 where he played 136 games and won 2 premierships is a tremendous achievement. […]

Acknowledgement of Country

MADALAH acknowledges and pays tribute to the Whadjuk Noongar, the Traditional Custodians of the Lands on which we work, and we pay our respects to their Elders – past, present and emerging. This acknowledgement extends to the First Peoples’ land across the state of Western Australia which is home to the many students that we support.

MADALAH recognises and values the continuity of cultural, educational and spiritual practices of First Peoples.

We wish to advise our First Peoples that this site may contain the names, images or audio-visual recordings of people who have passed.