Looking after Country Grant program recipients
The Looking after Country Grants support a range of valuable land and sea management projects, delivered by First Nations communities in locations across Queensland.
Listing 72 grant recipients.
| Year | Recipient | Project title | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | Wuthathi Aboriginal Corporation | Wuthathi Aboriginal Corporation Healthy Country Planning | $75,000 |
| 2018-19 | Northern Gulf Resource Management Group | The Tagalaka Cultural Heritage and Conservation Development Program | $75,000 |
| 2018-19 | Wabubadda Aboriginal Corporation | Planning for the management and conservation of biodiversity and cultural heritage at Urumbal Pocket Koombooloomba Dam, far north Queensland | $74,618 |
| 2018-19 | Cape York Weeds and Feral Animals Incorporated | Bonny Glen Cultural and Environmental Land Management Planning | $75,000 |
| 2018-19 | Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation RNTCB | Mithaka Cultural Mapping | $75,000 |
| 2018-19 | Wunthulpu Aboriginal Land Trust | Wunthulpu Conservation Projects | $21,952 |
| 2018-19 | Bunya Bunya Country Aboriginal Corporation (ICN 7022) | Hidden Midden Messages - the forgotten time capsules within our National Parks along the Sunshine Coast | $75,000 |
| 2018-19 | Yuku Baja Muliku Landowner and Reserves Ltd | Cultural Database and Capacity Building for Waymbuurr Warra | $75,000 |
| 2018-19 | Gunggari Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RTNBC | Gunggari Cultural Sites project | $74,191 |
| 2018-19 | Butchulla Men's Business Aboriginal Association | Butchulla Emergency Cultural Heritage Recording | $75,000 |
| 2018-19 | Muunthiwarra Aboriginal Corporation | Muunthiwarra Country Plan | $27,702 |
| 2019-20 | Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation Pty Ltd | Kalpowar Lands Cultural Heritage and Site Management Project | $75,000 |
| 2019-20 | Yambangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC) | Murra Yambangku (Hands on Country) Project | $74,500 |
| 2019-20 | Dirringhi Aboriginal Corporation | Dirringhi Habitat Restoration | $49,758 |
| 2019-20 | Northern Gulf Resource Management Group | Tagalaka Reading the Country for Future generations | $75,000 |
| 2019-20 | Bush Heritage Australia | Cultural Conservation and Knowledge Transfer on Wangkamadla Country | $72,600 |
| 2019-20 | Kooma Traditional Owners Association Incorporation | Kooma Morturary Tree | $74,050 |
| 2019-20 | Moompa-Awu Aboriginal Corporation (MAAC) | Moompa-Awu - Development Cultural Knowledge Program | $75,000 |
| 2020-21 | Gummingurru Aboriginal Corporation | Gummingurru Cultural Learnscape | $73,400 |
| 2020-21 | Goorathuntha Traditional Owners Limited | Mt Tabor Women's Healing Group | $74,990 |
| 2020-21 | Buluwai Indigenous Corporation | Buluwai Rangers and Cultural Tourism Development at Bunda Bibandji | $75,000 |
| 2020-21 | Northern Gulf Resource Management Group (with Tagalaka Traditional Owners) | New Beginnings, Reconnecting with Esmeralda Nature Reserve | $75,000 |
| 2020-21 | Western Yalanji Corporation | Western Yalanji Cultural Heritage Recording Project | $75,000 |
| 2020-21 | Gateebil Gurrnung Aboriginal Corporation | Conservation Plan - Challawong Rock | $41,800 |
| 2020-21 | Wabubadda Aboriginal Corporation | Jirrbal Country Planning | $74,800 |
| 2020-21 | Dulabed Malanbarra and Yidinji Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Jilljirri Plan Implementation and Cultural Heritage Capacity Building | $74,999 |
| 2020-21 | Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation | Bigambul Caring for Country Plan – for healthy country and a thriving Bigambul community | $74,250 |
| 2020-21 | Dabu Jajikal Aboriginal Corporation | Jajikal Heritage Site Survey and Management Plan at Balabay (Weary Bay) | $75,000 |
| 2020-21 | Ngai-Kungo-I People Inc | Caring for Ngai-kungo-I People's Sacred Waters | $55,000 |
| 2020-21 | Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation | Mbabaram Bringing Back Cultural Burning and protecting cultural heritage places - Watsonville | $75,000 |
| 2021-22 | Bromley Aboriginal Corporation | Bromley Traditional Burning | $74,971 |
| 2021-22 | Cape Melville Flinders and Howick Islands Aboriginal Corporation | Understanding Manyamarr (Altanmoui Ranges) | $75,000 |
| 2021-22 | Dabu Jajikal Aboriginal Corporation | Heritage and Natural Values Survey & Site Management Plan for Agincourt Reef | $75,000 |
| 2021-22 | Everick Foundation | Wulgurukaba Rangers on Yunbenun (Magnetic Island) | $75,000 |
| 2021-22 | Gunggari Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Mount Moffatt Cultural Heritage: Site Survey and Management Plan | $74,500 |
| 2021-22 | Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Mitigation of coastal erosion at Irrki | $50,500 |
| 2021-22 | Kuuku Ya'u Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Kuuku Ya'u Aboriginal Freehold projects | $75,000 |
| 2021-22 | Muunthiwarra Aboriginal Corporation | Reintroducing Traditional Burning on the Muunthiwarra Clan Estate | $60,500 |
| 2021-22 | Pitta Pitta Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Marion Downs Station Aboriginal Huts – a Pitta Pitta cultural heritage project | $63,386 |
| 2021-22 | River Nations Indigenous Corporation | Ecological Restoration of a Bularm Guvarl (beach-forest) | $74,260 |
| 2021-22 | Wanyurr-Majay Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Madjabana Healing Country | $74,900 |
| 2021-22 | Western Kangoul Ltd | The Cultural Landscape of Policeman's Lagoon, Western Kangoulu Country | $75,000 |
| 2021-22 | Yambangku Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development Aboriginal Corporation (YACHATDAC) | 'Murra Yambangku' (Hands on Country) Project Phase 2 (Monitoring, Maintenance, Capacity Building and Cultural Exchange) | $74,900 |
| 2022-23 | Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Aboriginal Corporation | Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Stone Arrangements Cultural Heritage Project | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Gateebil Gurrnung Aboriginal Corporation | Restoration of Challawong Rock | $74,695 |
| 2022-23 | Dabu Jajikal Aboriginal Corporation | Women's leadership in cultural heritage conservation program | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | River Nations Indigenous Corporation | Ecological Restoration on Gooreng Gooreng Country | $41,658 |
| 2022-23 | Cape Melville Flinders Howick Islands Aboriginal Corporation | Protecting critical Country and Culture along Wakooka - Cape Melville Road | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Bromley Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Bromley Traditional Burning 2023 | $73,236 |
| 2022-23 | Buluwai Indigenous Corporation | Recording and looking after cultural places | $69,550 |
| 2022-23 | Wabubadda Aboriginal Corporation | Cultural healing and preservation of the Little Millstream Jirrbal Settlement remains in Ravenshoe, Far North Queensland | $74,625 |
| 2022-23 | Mabuygiw Garkaziw Kupay Torres Strait Islander Corporation | Dabangay (Dabangai) Restoration Project (Stage 2) - 2022-2024 | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Maryborough Aboriginal Corporation for Housing and Cultural Development | Moonaboola Bush Garden | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Gimuy Walubara Yidinji Elders Aboriginal Corporation | Gimuy Catchment Management Plan | $74,004 |
| 2022-23 | Kyerrwandha Thingalkal Land Trust | Possum and Thaypan Country Plan, Cultural Burning and Invasive Species Control | $71,137 |
| 2022-23 | Port Curtis Coral Trust | Reviving Culture and Healing Country in the Port Curtis Coral Coast Native Title Region | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Kullilli Bulloo River Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Dika-gala punu - Kullilli 'Make Country Good' 10-year plan | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Waanyi Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Waanyi Boodjamulla Culture Plan - Project for Cultural Integration and Capacity Building | $69,660 |
| 2022-23 | Nunnie Burra Ltd (Birriah Aboriginal Corporation) | Birriah Country Connection, Recording and Caring for Country Management Plan | $74,604 |
| 2022-23 | Jumbun Limited | Development and Documentation of Traditional Wisdom and Lore of the Land for Intergenerational Connection and Succession | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Jawiyaba Warra Aboriginal Corporation | Imbala Butterfly Research on Jawiyaba | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Keeping Heritage Above the Water: Indigenous Disaster Risk Management and Planning in the face of Climate | $74,835 |
| 2022-23 | Wardingarri Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Iman Taroom Aboriginal Settlement Conservation and Skills Development | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Wulli Wulli Nation Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Wulli Wulli Native Plant Nursery and Vegetation Skills Development | $75,000 |
| 2022-23 | Tagalaka Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC | Mapping Tagalaka Traditional Homelands | $72,585 |
| 2023-24 | Badjuballa Aboriginal Corporation | The Cyclone Story: Preservation of a natural and cultural site on Girramay country | $75,000 |
| 2023-24 | Gimuy Walubara Yidinji Elders Aboriginal Corporation | Wet Tropics Native Tree Nursery: Restoring the Great Barrier Reef Catchment | $75,000 |
| 2023-24 | Nyanda Life Ltd | Yagera Learning on Country Project | $74,675 |
| 2023-24 | South West Indigenous Corporation | Revitalising Culturally Significant Species Through Sustainability | $75,000 |
| 2023-24 | Wabubadda Aboriginal Corporation | Going back to Badjuballa: Future Management of Three Rivers Country, Far North Queensland | $74,900 |
| 2023-24 | Wangkangurru Yarluyandi Aboriginal Corporation | Wangkangurru Yarluyandi cultural heritage - management and protection of 'Big Red' sand dune | $75,000 |
| 2023-24 | Watsonville Aboriginal Corporation | The next generation: Junior Traditional Custodians on Mbabaram Country | $75,000 |