Welcome to Roadmap to Country

Roadmap tells the story of our project where we worked with the remote Queensland Communities of Doomadgee in the Lower Gulf of Carpentaria and Kubin on the Torres Strait Island of Moa, to deliver training related to Tourism and Enterprise on Country.

We followed sealed highways, bumpy roads and sometimes made new tracks. Through a collection of yarns, vodcasts, images and practical tips the site will take you on our journey and introduce you into these Communities and meet the people involved in the project.

The site is designed to be a resource to be used by Indigenous Communities, Training Providers and Enterprise Development stakeholders to encourage training of Indigenous Australians on Country.

Warning

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this web site may contain images of deceased people
 

Roadmap Project

Doing Training

Delivering Training

Acknowledgements

  • The 11 Participants and their Families
  • The Communities
  • The Doomadgee Aboriginal Council
  • The Kubin Island Council
  • The Community Liaison Coordinators
  • The industry product review committee
  • Tourism Queensland
  • Master Grocers Australia
  • The Project Steering Committee
  • Artists JummuGGubuddgu [Doomadgee] and David Bosun [Moa] for the artwork used in the site design

Highlights

  • The warmth and welcome received in the communities
  • Watching the conversations happen and seeing the participants enabled to answertheir own questions
  • Training in an ‘open door’ environment and having people drop past just to seewhat was going on
  • The networks built and the enlistment of stakeholders as the projectprogressed
  • 7 applications progressed to Indigenous Business Australia
  • Attending the 2009 Indigenous Tourism Conference
  • Seeing a 15’ croc in its natural habitat

Challenges

  • Working the time frames of the project
  • Both airlines servicing the regions taken out of the air
  • Balancing the project requirements with the community needs as they emerged
  • The distance
  • Keeping the momentum going in the community between visits
  • Thewet season affecting roads, flights and telecommunication services
  • English is often a second [sometimes third] language
  • Moving away fast enough from the river bank to get away from a 15’croc in itsnatural habitat