The former heavyweight boxer Joe Bugner has called on all levels of government to provide urgent assistance to Aboriginal people living in the Mid West Shire of Wiluna.
Bugner toured the shire last week in conjunction with Golden West Resources, which has an iron ore exploration project in the region.
Mr Bugner told the ABC that living and housing standards in the shire are shockingly sub-standard.
He says he was upset by the plight of the Wongi people.
"We have our Prime Minister John Howard saying that we are one of the most well to do and one of the wealthiest nations on the planet and yet we have a situation here in our country that I saw in the last three days, four days, that shocked me because I think that the Indigenous Australians are not getting a fair go," he said.
"I think the local government should pull their bloody fingers out and get over there and look at these people visually and physically and go there and say ‘good God, is this what’s really happening?" he said.
"I can’t do nothing, I can open my mouth as a heavyweight champion of the world and say look, I’ve been there, I’ve actually looked at this."
The former Wiluna Shire President Kerrie Johnson says urgent action is needed to improve the housing conditions in the Shire’s Aboriginal community.
She says the Shire has asked the Department of Housing and Works to assist.
"We were hoping that they’d come in and fix the housing up or perhaps put a program in place where they could be fixed and teach our young ones to help fix them, and repair tiles, and things like that, but it hasn’t happened," she said.