Key points:

• The Pilbara contracting success story was founded on the back of Fortescue’s billion-dollar Aboriginal procurement push.
• Company carries the legacy of one of WA’s pioneering Indigenous earthmovers.
• Members voted to wind the business up at a meeting on 30 May.

Cundaline Resources, the 100 per cent Indigenous-owned Western Australian mining and civil contractor, has entered creditors’ voluntary liquidation.

Members of the company resolved to wind up the business at a general meeting on 30 May 2026 and appointed Robert Allan Jacobs and Andrew Michael Smith of Auxilium Partners in West perth as joint liquidators, according to a notice published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Cundaline was founded in 2016 by Brenden Taylor, a Nyamal and Tjiwarl man who has led the business as chief executive. The company built its presence across the Pilbara and the Northern Goldfields, with operations in Port Hedland and a head office in Perth, delivering mine site…