• We have worked since 2011 as part of a community-corporate-government team
brought together by the Bourke Aboriginal Community to develop a program of
community-led design and delivery of housing that will be owned by Aboriginal
people. This is part of Bourke’s Maranguka Strategy for self-determination. An initial
two houses were designed and built and sold to Aboriginal families. We continue to
work with the community to scope the next stage of the program as well as provide
it with advice on land remediation, master planning and other housing issues.
Read more about this collaboration in chapter 5 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Social Justice Commissioner’s 2013 report to Federal Parliament.
• The collaboration was presented at Reconciliation Australia’s 2013 Showcase
at Parliament House by Bourke leaders Alistair Ferguson and Phil Sullivan and
Lendlease’s Cath Brokenborough.
• We are working as partners in a collective impact model to support the
Bourke Aboriginal Community in a NSW Government endorsed trial of Justice
Reinvestment to prevent more young Aboriginal people, the most over-
represented group in Australian prisons, from entering the justice system.
• In 2013 we supported the Recognise Campaign for Constitutional Recognition of
Australia’s First People and its Journey to Recognition on road bikes through the
Northern Territory. Four Lendlease cyclists and support crew joined cyclists from
the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and other partners to ride 1200kms
from Alice Springs to Katherine to promote the campaign.
COLLABORATION BUILT ON RESPECT
PROGRESS MADE AND LESSONS LEARNED 2011-2015
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LENDLEASE SUPPORTED THE RECOGNISE CAMPAIGN FOR
CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION VISIT TO WESTERN NSW AND
THE BOURKE COMMUNITY IN MAY 2015.
L TO R: COMMISSIONER MICK GOODA, CATH
BROKENBOROUGH, RECOGNISE CAMPAIGNER AND LENDLEASE
RAP PANEL MEMBER CHARLEE-SUE FRAIL, RECOGNISE CO-
CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR TIM GARTRELL.
