Impact in motion.

A long-held community ambition on 75 acres of Bundjalung-owned land, now being built. We carried it through a demanding planning assessment, including 17 additional RFIs and new road-safety requirements, then 100% detailed design, independent cost assurance, probity and a competitive tender into contract. We remain on the client’s side of the table through construction.

Project of the Year, NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce Summit 2024.

Ten self-contained dwellings with up to 38 bed places on a 1.54 ha campus on Bundjalung Country, named in honour of Aunty Ruth Powis. We reframed a compelling idea into an assessable project, secured the site pathway, built the funding case in the funder’s terms, and de-risked delivery through a fixed-price modular builder pathway, all held together until the project became fundable.

From idea to funded delivery in 12 months.

Six two-bedroom homes for Aboriginal Elders and four three-bedroom transitional homes for women and children, clustered around shared landscape so privacy and connection sit together. We turned need and cultural intent into a development brief, used that preliminary funding to coordinate architecture, planning, engineering, bushfire, biodiversity and geotechnical work, and reported against every grant milestone.

Development Application lodged November 2025.

Telling a contractor to “hire local” rarely creates a job. The program wraps readiness, tickets, transport, mentoring, cultural connection and wellbeing support around paid work on a real construction site. We shaped the delivery model, aligned community, construction, employment, training and government requirements, worked through the employment structure and participant protections, and set up compliance and outcome reporting.

Every participant leaves with a next step: employment, an apprenticeship or further training.

The register said what was owned, not what to do next. We reconciled and verified every titled parcel, overlaid planning and constraints, and rated each for housing and social infrastructure potential using transparent weighted criteria and a place-based social-need lens, with no AI in the score. Delivered through Tend as an interactive map with downloadable Board Packs.

The Land Council can now pick priority sites before funding rounds open.

The Aboriginal Housing Office’s Common Terms & Conditions move providers from managing homes to leasing them, taking on capital repairs, lifecycle planning, insurance and compliance while rent stays policy-capped. We read the lease and the Asset Management Framework together, modelled them against asset-level cashflow and portfolio scale, and stress-tested lifecycle timing.

The Board could make its own informed decision and engage constructively with AHO.

An Aboriginal-led hub bringing cultural education, healing, tourism, enterprise and environmental stewardship together. We turned a broad, long-held vision into defined, costed infrastructure packages, separated shovel-ready cultural trail works from those still needing approvals, built the cost-benefit case, and staged the investment so the first step can be funded without shrinking the ambition.

The business case is with funders and remains subject to approval.