540beds across Australia
11communities
20kgplastic diverted per bed

Thematic Analysis

Community Insights

Understanding what communities are telling us, organised by theme. Every data point represents a real voice.

19

Verified quotes

8

Storytellers

7

Themes identified

2

Communities

Theme Distribution

How community voices are distributed across themes

Community Voice5 quotes (26%)
Health & Wellbeing5 quotes (26%)
Basic Needs3 quotes (16%)
Product Feedback2 quotes (11%)
The Freight Tax2 quotes (11%)
Dignity & Safety1 quotes (5%)
Washing Machines1 quotes (5%)

Featured Voices

One powerful quote from each theme

Community Voice
Working both ways — cultural side in white society and Indigenous society.

Dianne Stokes

Elder, Tennant Creek

Health & Wellbeing
You got to get health messages across.

Cliff Plummer

Health Practitioner, Tennant Creek

Basic Needs
Hardly anyone around the community has beds. When family comes to visit, people sleep on the floor.

Ivy

Palm Island

Product Feedback
It's more better than laying around on the floors... It was easy to make. Yeah, it's nice.

Ivy

Palm Island, after receiving bed

The Freight Tax
You can't just go down to the store and buy beds. It's a big muck-around. You have to bring them on the barge, pay for freight, and still, not everyone gets one.

Alfred Johnson

Palm Island

Dignity & Safety
Having a bed is something you need; you feel more safe when you sleep in a bed. It's different than sleeping on the couch or the ground.

Alfred Johnson

Palm Island

Where Voices Come From

Communities contributing to the Goods on Country story

Tennant Creek

Northern Territory

6

storytellers

One of Goods’ deepest community relationships. Elder Dianne Stokes received a bed and came back requesting twenty more.

Palm Island

Queensland

2

storytellers

Community voices shaping the future. Ivy and Alfred Johnson gave the first community feedback that shaped the bed design.

The five domains

How these themed voices map onto our five outcome domains. Jobs and ownership voices (Mykel, Fred) are emerging in this quote set and are carried on the impact page.

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Rest & health

Off-the-ground, washable sleep as health hardware

4

Dignity & safety

A bed is safety and belonging. A need, not charity

5

Self-determination & community-led design

Named, tested and owned in community

2

Circular & local economy

Value and the making stay local

Emerging

Jobs, On Country work & ownership

Young people building the work, toward ownership

Explore the Stories Behind the Data

Every quote comes from a real conversation. Dive deeper into the voices that shape what we build.