The making is proven

From community

• Case study: the Maningrida run

  A community-controlled organisation asked; the parts were pressed at the farm; young people assembled every bed in community. How it worked, step by step, for any community asking "could this work where we are".

  

• Field note: Alice Springs to Utopia

  Three days across Alice Springs, Utopia, Arawerr and Ampilatwatja. Young people built beds with Oonchiumpa; local teams led the deliveries to the homelands.

  

• Every community, one page each

  The communities index now carries all twelve communities on the register, with the washing machines that were never on the page.

People stepping up

• Mykel, Palm Island

  Seven beds built by the end of his second day. "Yeah, I'll be rocking up every day to make them."

• Shayne Bloomfield, Oonchiumpa

  "This partnership could go a long way. I feel it's got a long, long path ahead."

The road to ownership

• The deck was rebuilt to be read in five minutes: the road, the places, and the money in five numbers.
• Nothing is signed yet, and we say so first. The gate we set ourselves is 31 August.
• The next thing the money buys is a measured fifty-bed run: timed, costed, with receipts.

Three ways in