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Q GROUP

CONTACT

Jim Gleeson Director, Plan C [email protected] +61 422 794 072

Dee ElliottDirector, Elliott [email protected] +61 402 143 972

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Q GROUP IS A CONSORTIUM OF QUEENSLAND BASED PRACTITIONERS WITH A COMBINED

150 YEARS’ LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT AND

TRAINING. OUR EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:

▻ Leading practice indigenous engagement on behalf of global mining and oil and gas companies, Governments and for major infrastructure projects;

▻ Comprehensive understanding and experience of prior-consultation frameworks as they relate to indigenous land access and resettlement issues;

▻ Extensive experience of multi-stakeholder negotiations for resource projects involving government, industry and indigenous communities;

▻ Development and implementation of project benefit agreements as they relate to land access for resource projects;

▻ Training in community development and engagement for the resources sector in Australia, Canada and Latin America;

▻ Training to legal practitioners on prior-consultation legal frameworks;

▻ Community and stakeholder engagement workshop to representatives from the Department of Mines and Energy, Peru;

▻ Teaching at the University of Queensland, Queens University in Canada and Catolica University in Chile; and

▻ ‘Grassroots’ engagement with Indigenous communities, to plan for the achievement of their own aspirations.

Our team includes Peruvian-born and Australian-Chilean specialists who have undertaken university studies in Queensland and bring legal expertise on the operation of prior-consultation legislation and ILO 169, local knowledge, language fluency and local experience to our offer.

We offer our clients a range of technical skills and proven approaches to Indigenous engagement and establishing dialogue, combined with a strong understanding of the cultural context and the expertise to translate these skills into effective training and teaching packages. Previous projects from members of our team have received Australian National Awards in community engagement and planning from the Planning Institute of Australia.

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OUR TEAM

JIM GLEESON

Jim is an urban and community planner, community engagement practitioner and facilitator with 20 years’ professional experience

Jim’s practice aims to build activated, connected and inclusive communities by working ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ at the intersection of community, government, industry and place.

Jim has specialist engagement expertise in working with Aboriginal Communities across resource sector, community planning and community regeneration projects in Australia. Jim holds a Bachelor and Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning.

DEE ELLIOTT Dee is a leading social planning practitioner with nearly 30 years’ experience. Dee has provided engagement, planning and assessment for Local, State and Federal Governments, infrastructure providers and multinational companies. Dee has also held senior leadership roles with BG Group, and SKM (Jacobs) and provided strategic advice to companies including BHP Billiton and Glencore.

Dee has a unique mix of experience in both government and corporate spheres, with project management and engagement skills earned on complex and contentious projects. Dee holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (Behavioural Sciences) and Master of Social Policy.

PAM BOURKE Pam has 35 years’ experience in working with Local and State governments, NGOs and the private sector to facilitate community engagement and development. Pam has delivered community development programs in Australia and New Zealand for and provided training in Community Development and Engagement for the Resources Sector in Australia, Canada and Latin America. Pam teaches Community Relations for the Resource Sector at the University of Queensland, Queens University in Canada and Catolica University in Chile.

Pam has a Bachelor of Social Work and a Masters in Social Welfare Administration and Planning from the University of Queensland.

CECILIA REÁTEGUI Cecilia has worked in the mining industry with a focus on the social and economic impacts of resource projects in Queensland, Laos, Chile, Peru and PNG. She has undertaken fieldwork in the Bowen Basin and Mexico and being part in producing numerous Social Impact Assessments, management plans, risk assessments, stakeholder matrixes and in depth reports. Cecilia has also produced reports on the impacts of mining against social, economic and political issues. She has a clear understanding of needs and impacts in third world countries.

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JOHN ARMSTRONG John has extensive experience working and negotiating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities and organisations in a culturally appropriate, respectful and responsive manner that is attentive to cultural protocols. John works strategically across community, urban, organisational and cultural contexts. He has specialist knowledge in Indigenous enterprise and economic development, social innovation and entrepreneurship, public art and placemaking, and cultural development and planning

MARGARITA ESCARTIN Margarita has been working with resource developers and indigenous communities on major mining, oil and gas and infrastructure projects for over 10 years. A qualified lawyer, Margarita has a strong understanding of prior-consultation processes and brings a strategic approach to her engagement practice. Margarita has advised companies and indigenous communities on engagement strategies, project agreements and post-agreement implementation plans. Margarita holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Diploma of Laws and is currently completing her Masters in Responsible Resource Development from the University of Queensland.

JANINE GERTZ Janine has 16 years experience in the Commonwealth Public Service including local, regional and national level service delivery and policy development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs. Janine’s most recent position at James Cook University was leading community engagement strategies to raise awareness and participation of Indigenous Australians in higher education. Janine has lobbying and advocacy experience at international policy forums having participated at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York – and UN Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva 2010 and 2012.

Janine is undertaking a research degree (Masters Philosophy – Society and Culture) on the topic of implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the local level within a discrete Aboriginal nation.

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PROJECT AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

TEACHING AND TRAINING

▻ Training in dialogue for development to global resource companies in Peru and Chile

▻ Lecturer in Community Relations for the Resources Sector at Catolica University Santiago Chile

▻ Online courses in community development and community engagement at the University of Queensland Australia

▻ Teaching and training Indigenous people in Australia, the US, Canada and Latin America in dialogue and community development.

MINING AND RESOURCES

▻ Social Impact and Opportunity Assessments for mining, gas, major infrastructure and commercial developments

▻ Social Impact and Opportunity Assessments for mining, gas, major infrastructure and commercial developments

▻ Social baseline, assessment and monitoring strategies to IFC standards for coal seam gas to LNG projects

▻ Community Development and Community Investment strategies, plans and evaluations

▻ Specialist planning and capacity building projects with Indigenous people impacted by mining and energy projects

▻ Social risk analysis and risk management.

INDIGENOUS LAND ACCESS AND PROJECT AGREEMENTS

▻ Strategic advice on legal and regulatory issues for land access relating to resource and infrastructure project development

▻ Development of engagement strategies and implementation frameworks for multi-stakeholder negotiations

▻ Negotiation of land access consents between companies and communities, including compliance with prior-consultation legislation

▻ Negotiation of project agreements between companies and communities, including facilitation of meetings

▻ Developing and executing implementation strategies for obligations under project agreements.

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▻ Indigenous community training, employment, recruitment and retention strategies on resource projects

▻ Indigenous economic enterprise participation in resource projects

▻ Indigenous community risk assessment and risk management.

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY PLANNING

▻ Community and stakeholder engagement strategies, plans and evaluation

▻ Community and economic development plans

▻ Regional development strategies

▻ Social infrastructure planning

▻ Scan of Disadvantage.

HOUSING

▻ Demand and Capacity Analysis for Indigenous housing ownership

▻ Affordable Housing Strategies

▻ Evaluation of Housing Initiatives.

ABORIGINAL ENTERPRISE

▻ Professional guidance for the sustainable development of new businesses and social enterprises

▻ Planning for viable employment options

▻ Identifying business opportunities and facilitate innovative business development.

URBAN REGENERATION

▻ Whole of community urban regeneration and renewal plans for disadvantaged areas in rural Australia.

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PROJECT EXAMPLES

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TEACHING AND TRAINING

LECTURER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA

Since 2007 Pam Bourke has designed and taught two on-line post graduate courses in community development and community engagement for the Resources Sector. The international student cohort includes Indigenous students as well as students from Australia, African nations, Latin America, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Europe, Canada and the United States.

LECTURER COMMUNITY RELATIONS FOR THE RESOURCES SECTOR CATOLICA UNIVERSITY SANTIAGO CHILE

Since 2012 Pam Bourke has been teaching Community Relations for the Resources Sector at Catolica University in Chile. Students come from Chile, Peru and other Latin American countries and include people working in the resources sector, NGOs, government and consultancies. Pam works with translators who translate the course content during the 5 day workshops. The feedback on the program which covers practical frameworks and skills in community engagement and community development has been excellent.

Teck Resources SMART Community Relations Project manager and author of the Teck Smart Community Relations Training Manual to support Teck’s global community relations team. Pam’s role was overall project manager, author of community investment and community engagement chapters and editor or other chapters including Working with Indigenous people, Local Procurement and Hiring, Gender, Community Relations systems, Disadvantaged Groups, Identifying Communities of Interest.

PERU TRANSFERRING KNOWLEDGE WORKSHOP

Pam worked with the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining to produce a module on Dialogue for the Peru Knowledge Transfer project to obtain social consensus in the Mining Industry in 2015. This involved producing a short video, course notes and case studies on Dialogue for the Resources Sector which were used in train the trainer workshops in Peru.

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MINING, OIL AND GAS

TRADITIONAL OWNER ENGAGEMENT – QUEENSLAND CURTIS LNG

BG Group’s Queensland Curtis LNG is a $20.4 billion project which recently became the first Queensland project to export LNG. The project corridor extends some 600 kms through South and Central Queensland Coast. Dee was BG Group’s first Social Performance Manager in Australia (for three years) and delivered the Social Impact Assessment and Social Investment framework for the project.

Dee’s role included engagement with eight Traditional Owner groups regarding project impacts and opportunities, and Indigenous participation in employment. After approval and commencement of construction, Dee delivered the project’s social research, monitoring and social performance plans, and managed stakeholder engagement for the gas pipeline’s construction.

BHP BILLITON MT ARTHUR COAL ABORIGINAL ENGAGEMENT

Mt Arthur Coal’s Sustainable Communities Project is regarded as a leading practice example of community engagement for the resources sector in Australia. The project directly engaged with over 1000 people within a 13000 person community to address the impacts, identify and maximise opportunities arising from coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.

Specific attention was directed toward Aboriginal people’s engagement and community investment via the following projects within the Sustainable Communities Project:

• Aboriginal Capacity Building Project

• Cultural Heritage Engagement Project

• Aboriginal Keeping Place Project

• Aboriginal Community Investment planning and implementation

TAMPAKAN SOCIAL INVESTMENT AND SOCIAL IMPACTS MANAGEMENT

The Tampakan Copper-Gold Project was proposed in a culturally and geographically complex area in the Philippines. During 2012, Dee assisted the client’s representative in Manila to develop and document the Community Investment Strategy for TCG, addressing needs and expectations at local, municipal and regional levels. In 2013, Dee reviewed and rewrote the draft Social Impact Management Plan for TCG.

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PROJECT AGREEMENTS

Margarita has been involved in the negotiation, finalisation and implementation of numerous project agreements as they relate to land access and project consents from indigenous communities, and compliance with prior-consultation provisions in the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). This has included extensive indigenous community engagement and consultation to document and demonstrate legal compliance. Margarita has also negotiated agreements for the return of lands to indigenous communities and numerous cultural heritage management agreements.

Since 2005 Margarita has worked on project and cultural heritage agreements for coal and metalliferous mines in North Queensland, SE Queensland, Central Queensland and the Bowen Basin; gasfields, pipeline and processing facilities for the Queensland Cutis LNG, Australian Pacific LNG, Gladstone LNG and Arrow Energy projects; and infrastructure projects such as dams, railways lines and pipelines.

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COMMUNITY PLANNING

ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY PLANNING FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND

Jim Gleeson, in collaboration with the North Queensland Land Council (NQLC), has developed Community Plans with three Aboriginal communities in North Queensland, Cape York and Gulf Country.

Each community have their Native Title rights and interests determined, are the recipients of assets and income from ILUA (Indigenous land Use Agreements) and other forms of agreement and have the ‘right to negotiate’ as outlined in Native Title legislation. The communities are experiencing a range of current challenges and potential opportunities, which provide the context for each individual Community Plan, including:

• Mining and exploration negotiations

• Implementation and monitoring of Indigenous Land Use (ILUA)and other agreements

• Land management and development

• Natural resource management

• Practicing, preserving and protecting culture

• Communications and engagement

• Establishing partnerships

• External stakeholder relationships

In the context of these opportunities and challenges, and based around the quadruple bottom-line sustainability areas of Community, Culture, Economy and Country, the development of each Community Plan was informed by extensive engagement to establish a five-year framework, vision and roadmap to guide the implementation of each community’s self-determination aspirations.

HOUSING

TIWI ISLANDS HOUSING MANAGEMENT PLAN

The Tiwi Islands are located north of Australia where the Arafura Sea joins the Timor Sea. Following the amalgamation of four Indigenous Community Councils, Dee worked with the Tiwi Islands Shire Council and community members to develop an integrated plan for housing management, and a policy framework to support housing development.

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The project was based on extensive consultation with Councillors, communities and government stakeholders across the Islands, and required detailed engagement and negotiation to identify a plan agreeable to each of the four Indigenous communities.

INDIGENOUS HOME OWNERSHIP IN THE TORRES STRAIT

Torres Strait is the water body between Northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is home to dozens of Indigenous Islander communities, with many areas of land and sea held in Native Title. During 2013, Dee Elliott worked with the Local Government and its communities over a six month period to develop an Indigenous home ownership project on Ngurupai (Horn Island).

Dee worked with community members to identify their desires and capacity for home ownership, and developed a program for home owners to increase their skills and chances of success. Dee also managed an engagement process to involve community members in designing houses and the new neighbourhood, and worked with the Local and Regional Authorities to develop a policy framework for housing development.

YUMBA META HOUSING ORGANISATION

Yumba Meta Housing Organisation is a not-for-profit association servicing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in the Townsville region by providing, short, medium and long term affordable and culturally appropriate accommodation and housing related support programs including:

• The Reverend Charles Harris Diversionary Centre,

• Flora House Women’s Shelter

• Employment Related Accommodation Program for those visiting Townsville from rural and remote areas seeking temporary accommodation whilst undergoing training or study, and

• Dale Parker Place provides temporary supported accommodation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults who are experiencing chronic homelessness, sleeping rough or living in improvised dwelling and who are also engaging in public intoxication. This program currently accommodates 20 males at Bowen Road, and 5 Female clients in a facility in Cranbrook.

As a Director and President of the association, Janine has overseen and facilitated the governance of the organisation’s strategic and operational plans to ensure national accreditation and Yumba Meta’s achievement of it’s vision of ‘homelessness to home ownership’.

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ABORIGINAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

BLAK BUSINESS SMART BUSINESS

As Manager of this initiative, funded by three levels of government and involving a range of corporate partners, John led a team of Indigenous staff to provide ongoing personalised, professional guidance for the sustainable development of new businesses and social enterprises.

Intensive and extensive consultations with Indigenous Community Leaders and others enabled John to provide a valuable service for a rich and diverse mix of Indigenous individuals, enterprises and Community organisations with150+ active clients over 3 years.

ERUB ISLAND COMMUNITY CULTURAL PLAN

Working collaboratively with Leaders and Community members a comprehensive plan was developed that has potential for roll out across a number of other Torres Strait Islands Communities. Incorporating a range of microbusinesses and cultural enterprises the Plan capitalised on the rich histories and natural resources of the region.

Based on Traditional skills and Knowledges the Plan aimed to both maintain culture and language as well as educate the younger generations and provide viable employment options on this remote island.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN REGIONAL AND REMOTE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

John is currently working with Queensland University of Technology’s Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship on a suite of inter-related projects to identify business opportunities and facilitate innovative business development for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and individuals.

The projects involve skills transfer and business structuring as well as an ongoing mentoring and professional guidance component.

TOWNSVILLE REGIONAL INDIGENOUS BUSINESS NETWORK (TRIBN)

Janine is of the founding Directors of the Townsville Regional Indigenous Business Network, which is a not-for-profit incorporated association that aims to advocate on behalf of Indigenous Business, build capacity of Indigenous Businesses, Foster Trade opportunities and Generate Wealth for our Indigenous Business Members. The Townsville Region Indigenous Network extends from Mackay in the South to Cardwell in the North, Mt Isa in the West and Palm Island to the East.

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URBAN RENEWAL

SOUTH WEST MOREE PRECINCT SOCIAL PLAN

Moree has a large Aboriginal population, which largely resides within the South-West Moree Precinct (SWMP). The Precinct was originally developed in the 1950s and 1960s, as a result of a high demand for public housing. The SWMP has been historically characterised by its poor socio-economic indicators, which continue to the present.

Jim Gleeson and John Armstrong developed a Social Plan for SWMP that provides a framework to achieving the vision, goals, strategies and actions desired by the Community in revitalising the Precinct, including attention to physical infrastructure and space. It includes the steps needed to reach these goals and a framework for monitoring and evaluating progress.

INTERNATIONAL POLICY

Janine’s people are the Ngadjon-jii from Malanda on the Atherton Tablelands, and the Gugu Badhun from the Upper Burdekin region west of Townsville. Janine has represented Gugu Badhun issues at the:

• United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York – 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012.

• United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva – in 2010 and 2012

• Seminar on “Strengthening partnerships between indigenous peoples and States: Treaties, agreement and constructive arrangements in Geneva – July 2012.

In 2011 and 2012 Janine was the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Organisations Network of Australia – which coordinates the work and strategy of network of national peak bodies and other community organisations involved in indigenous human rights and national/international policy and advocacy. In 2011 and 2012 she was also Co-Chair of the Pacific caucus of which coordinated the strategy and positions interests of Indigenous groups across the Pacific at the UN Permanent Forum in New York.