This seminar explores the themes of a research project into reciprocal accountability and the public value created by Aboriginal organisations in the Kimberley. The concept of public value was advanced by Moore in the early 1980s when neo-liberal public management first threatened to dominate the administrative apparatus of the Anglophone states. It has been refined since, and offers an alternative, now that neo-liberal public management faces widespread public disillusion. Moore said that neo-liberal public management (New Public Management or NPM as its theorists labelled it) mimics the production of private value in the commercial, market-oriented, sector because of its perceived efficiency. He proposed that public value is fundamentally different to private value, and that it is wrong for public administrators to ignore these differences. One principal difference is that the process of producing a public good is intrinsic to its value, while the process of producing a private commodity for the commercial market does not affect its value at all. This is important for our project, and it opens up a second difference that was not explored by Moore. Public administrators should take into account a range of values desired by a range of publics, offering the possibility of putting Aboriginal values and Aboriginal publics at the forefront of Aboriginal policy once more. The seminar will briefly outline the contrasts between public value management and neo-liberal public management in the context of Aboriginal community service organisations and social enterprises in the Kimberley region before each researcher outlines the contribution they will make to the project from their own perspective.