About Goods on Country
Made by community.
Made for community.
Goods on Country is a social enterprise designing, manufacturing, and transferring essential health hardware to remote First Nations communities across Australia. Beds. Washing machines. A manufacturing model that stays with the communities it serves.
We started in 2023 with a question about preventable disease. We've since delivered 496 beds across 9 communities, and the model is now headed toward community ownership.
Xavier with his Stretch Bed. Oonchiumpa, Alice Springs.
What we believe
Community-led design
Products are refined around the fire with Elders and families. We listen first, design second, build third.
Made On-Country
Manufacturing happens close to the communities served. Local repairability, local skills, local jobs.
Earned, not given
Commerce over charity. Every bed is paid for at fair market rates and built to outlast its warranty.
Community ownership
Our long-term goal is to transfer manufacturing to community-owned enterprises. We become unnecessary.
The team
Goods on Country is a project of A Curious Tractor, founded by Nicholas Marchesi and Benjamin Knight in 2023. The day-to-day is run by a small team of designers, engineers, and community members across Brisbane, Tennant Creek, and the Top End. Elders and community partners shape every product before it reaches a home.
Want the long version?
From the conference room where it started, to the bed legs going onto a truck for Utopia Homelands. The story has Elders, engineers, and a lot of plastic.