What do we do?

Community Empowerment – our purpose 

Our core focus is to deliver positive outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

We specialise in building lasting relationships and shared perspectives between government, industry and community. Our services are delivered through genuine best practice engagement that is designed and led by our Indigenous team members and creates long-term relationships that transcend our project obligations.

Take an objective approach, focused on empowering community, supporting self-determination. A majority of our projects achieve this by working to create relationships or understanding between Community and proponents or Governments delivering infrastructure projects across Australia.

We are advocates and consultants, and advocacy is integral to what we do. We work directly with community, whether funded by Government, Proponent, or registered entities, to support community to respond to opportunities to deliver outcomes.

We are actively involved in shaping best practice across Australia, and further support project design and development through advocacy and technical insights. This includes:

• Policy advisory
• Regulatory reform
• Advocacy
• Events – speaking and training for a range of audiences.

Outcome over Asset – for projects 

Our team are recognised leaders in the industry, actively shaping best practice for co-design and outcomes oriented community engagement. We are seen as a safe pair of hands and trusted advisors for both Industry and community and are committed to delivering genuine outcomes for our stakeholders.

Our work is comprehensive and focused on achieving outcomes.  Some current industry deliverables that our work addresses include:

• Community benefits and benefits sharing – co -design, KPIs, monitoring and evaluation
• Culturally informed stakeholder engagement – statutory approvals and/or social risk approaches
• Capacity / capability building – working with community to develop strategies that show their priority outcomes and preferred ways of working (consultation approach) for Government and proponents
• Social outcomes, social value, social procurement, social sustainability
• Community development
• Impact assessments

We note that this is not an exhaustive list, and this terminology does not necessarily carry its intended meaning across the diverse communities in Australia. These examples are shared to build more common understanding between our capabilities and project approvals requirements.

Transformative Reconciliation – for enterprise 

We work with organisations to improve cultural capability, transformation and change. Our team include technical change management specialists, including award winning shaping of organisational approaches (such as Reconciliation Action Plans), that drive outcomes.

Knowledge Weaving – bringing together traditional and modern approaches 

We have demonstrated success in bringing together diverse communities and perspectives, to understand common goals, and support weaving traditional knowledge with modern approaches. This is particularly relevant today in responding to climate change, and the need to build Australia’s resilience to extreme weather events.

Why work with us?

We partner with Indigenous communities, industry, and government to transform the way infrastructure is developed and delivered in Australia. We work at all stages of the asset lifecycle, across all infrastructure projects and policy efforts, in all jurisdictions across Australia, to deliver more equitable and generational outcomes.

• Collaborative | Our approach is grounded in genuine collaboration, enabling transformative and generational growth. We work across all levels—from being a trusted partner at the grassroots, to providing hands-on technical support within organisations, to offering strategic guidance at the highest levels of decision-making.
• Committed | We are ambitious and unwavering in our commitment to community outcomes, alongside a reconciled and decarbonised future. We have been working to improve the way infrastructure is delivered in Australia for ten years.
• Evidence based | Guided and informed by best-practice engagement frameworks and Government policy (ie IAP2, AIATSIS), our work is ultimately designed and led by our Indigenous team members, who build enduring relationships that extend beyond project obligations. Our success is based on our relationships across Australia, which are built on trust. This is key to our approach – and our obligations extend beyond any project.
• Our people | Our team brings technical qualifications alongside lived experience. This includes Engineering, Change Management, Sustainability, Engagement, Law and Governance, and Finance. In addition to our core team, we have a network of trusted partners across the Country that we work with regularly to deliver projects that are changing the policy landscape. We are unique in the market and proudly so.