What
We
Do
The Living Country Community is a group of companies created for the purpose of restoring, practicing and sharing the knowledge, culture and belief systems that underpin Australian Aboriginal culture.
The culture that has cared for this country, keeping it, and our society in pristine health since time immemorial.
Our Mission
Central to our system is that our primary cultural, custodial role is to care for country (our Mother) and bring all people into a proper relationship with Country.
It is through this we believe we can restore the cultural, psychological and practical relationship all people need with our country and culture, but in particular that our Aboriginal communities need. We do this through employment, through care, through investment and action.
As a group, Living Country is for everyone – for every person that wants a renewed relationship with culture, with nature, with the future – based on the profound knowledge, cultural and caring for country practices that the world will need if we are to navigate a future for our planet (including sky country) together.
Our Services
At our core, we are many businesses joined together in our shared lore and love of country.
We are a full service organisation that, through our network of culturally authorised businesses and country based communities, can provide you with everything from professional advisory services to land, environmental, biodiversity and climate expertise, as well as design, cultural advisory, tourism and education services.
Through our Living Country Care organisation, we have the ambition to grow our land ownership and custodial services to include:
- Secure sacred spaces for protection and cultural practice
- Develop and care for places of cultural practice and care
- Land-based economic self-determination
- Cultural burns
- Biodiversity audits
- Climate change work and carbon credit developments
- Landcare services (plantings and horticultural)
- Environmental services
- Cultural immersions and tourism
Through our Living Country Services organisation, we want to connect businesses and people to each other and to country. Our services include:
- Culturally Authentic Cultural Services led, authorised and delivered by cultural leaders.
- Cultural advisory work
- Leadership and organisation development – from an Indigenous eldership lens
- Tourism
- Education
- Cultural awareness
- Cultural immersions and place-based experiences
- Cultural Property Services
- Cultural heritage mapping and site surveying
- Designing for country services
- Publishing
- Business support and quality assurance etc.