Profile: The Sustainable Warburton Project

The Sustainable Warburton Project is an Australian-first research and practice based design and planning project focused on Aboriginal settlement planning, involving an Indigenous community, industry and academia.

November 21, 2011

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Danielle Toon, Indigenous community program manager

The story of Danielle Toon, a young corporate worker who built an education program, changed an Indigenous community—and government policy.
To see Aboriginal children pick up a teaching manual and pretend they are the teacher confidently delivering lesson content is fantastic,” says Danielle Toon, who manages the Every Child is Special (ECIS) Education Unit at Cape York Partnerships.

March 31, 2011

• People

Project: Telstra’s Broadbanding the Top End

At a physical level, Telstra’s Broadbanding the Top End (Phase 1) project was an impressive engineering feat—800 kilometres of cable laid between Jabiru to Rio Tinto Alcan’s facility in Nhulunbuy across some of the harshest terrain in Australia—and presented an interesting case in good project management versus time constraints and resource requirements. However, the project […]

March 25, 2011

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An indigenous perspective of projects, community and culture

Any person who comes from one culture and is tasked with working with another should take into account other people’s needs and cultural diversity in a project, says Donald Christophersen of Morning Star Indigenous Inservices. “If you don’t realise that other people’s culture will have a huge impact on any activity, anywhere, how can you […]

March 24, 2011

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Mark Porter, business project manager

Queenslander Mark Porter was a youngster when he began working at his family’s large timber manufacturing and export business, and it was at the tender age of 19 that he first started practising some of the principles of project management. “I was placed in control of product development and marketing, and it was from this […]

March 21, 2011

• People

Project: Horizon Power

Upgrading power supplies is the bread and butter of companies such as Horizon Power, a fully-integrated Western Australian government-owned business delivering energy solutions in regional Western Australia. However when the service being delivered is to remote and often isolated parts of the country, the project management approach used requires innovation and above all must be […]

March 17, 2011

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