1. About Us
(About/About Us)

...his, there is the need for collaborative recognition from other authorities currently responsible for land and community management.   This project is based on 1. ensuring the survival o...

2. Contact and Booking Details
(Services/Service)

...nbsp;               Cairns, Queensland,               &nbs...

3. TKRP Film and Production Services
(Services/Film and Production Services)

TKRP provides services and support around the development of films, documentaries and other digital arts productions.  The aspirations around developing film and multi media presentations is

4. TKRP Land Management Services
(Services/Contracting Land Management Services)

TKRP provides services and support around traditional land management and research projects.  The aspirations around re-implementing traditional management regimes, is to demonstrate the va

5. Meet the team
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

Peta Standley Peta Standley was born and grew up in North Queensland experiencing its rich cultural dialogue.  Dr. Tommy George Dr. Tommy George is the last fluent speaker of the

6. Graphs and Maps
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...ect to determine the potential of stingless bees as an indicator of biodiversity health in savanna woodlands. This project could examine the effects of a Traditional Knowledge prescribed burning reg...

7. Journal Articles
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...ng Interactive Systems Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems The landscape's apprentice: lessons for place-centred design from grounding documentary  ...

8. Project methodology
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...r for daily use, tool and weaponry production, ceremonial or propagation purpose had an effect on the landscape and the atmosphere.  Awu Laya people burned all year round for a variety of reas...

9. Project achievements
(Kuku-Thaypan Fire Reseach Project/Research)

...knowledge systems to demonstrate the negative effects that inappropriate fire is having on the climate, landscape and biodiversity of Cape York Peninsula. It has also established an Indigenous led Pa...

10. 2008 Review
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

Thap Yongk is a Lore Pole belonging to the Wanam tribes of Western Cape Peninsula, Queensland Australia. In 2007 at Utrecht Aboriginal Art Museum in the Netherlands received the Lore Poles as a gift

11. Media Meet Interview with TKRP
(TKRP MOVIES/Media Meet Interview with TKRP)

pBkRSrLB-LgA television interveiw with Barry Hunter, Indigenous Land Management Facilitator  (ILMF), John Hunter (ILMF) and Victor Steffensen (TKRP).  Discussing the purpose of the Australia

12. Water We Know
(TKRP MOVIES/Water We Know)

...s knowledge, this must see presentation is produced to begin the first steps of educating Government, Land Holding Bodies, and the general public - both black and white, in understanding and develo...

13. Moriori Project Report 2008
(Communities - Moriori/Moriori)

...tical support and assistance with obtaining travel funds to get the TKRP team from Australia to New Zealand is due to the hard work of the TKRP NZ Core team  and to staff at the Ministry for Ec...

14. Kuku-Thaypan 2007 Review
(Communities - Kuku Thaypan/ Kuku Thaypan - Cape York)

  Kuku-Thaypan have two positions developed for land management aspirations set by their Elders from their knowledge recording work over the many years.  The management obligations to be

15. Water We Know
(Communities - Kuku Thaypan/ Kuku Thaypan - Cape York)

...; The case studies in the film where actual concerns of the community regarding management of their homelands from a traditional prospective.  Dr George Musgrave and Dr Tommy George featur...

16. Water We Know
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

...shing, pollution, and restricted access from certain areas of their own culturally inherited pristine lands. The case study was also a part of a cultural indicators report on water management...

17. Bush Foods Documentary
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

...roughout Australia.     Elder Stan Kalkeyorta takes us to the heart of Wik traditional lands, at the end of wet season where he reveals his bush foods secrets and traditional knowle...

18. Turn Back Documentary
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

...n people accounts of early European contact at cape KeerWeer, 70km south of Aurukun in far north Queensland Australia. This program presents Silas story, a story past down from his elders, thi...

19. Land Management
(Communities - Kuku Thaypan/ Kuku Thaypan - Cape York)

Click here to view Awu-Laya - (Kuku-Thaypan) Fire Research Project. Click here to view Rarda - (Low Lake) case study. Click here to view Ndolgun - (Pelican Lake) Case study.  Click here to

20. Shipton Flat Project Update 2007
(Communities - Shipton Flat/Shipton Flats)

...nd other community members. In addition Ruby has made contact with Brian Wallace, an Elder from Palm Island, whose family was removed from Shiptons Flat and sent to Palm Island. They spent an emoti...

21. Injinoo
(Communities - Injinoo/Cape York)

...entral) Wuthathi (Whitesand ? south eastern) Yadhaykenu (Cairn Cross ? eastern) and Gudang (Red Island, Somerset ? northern) The settlement of Injinoo was established on Cape York by a comm...

22. Community Structure
(Case Studies/Education Shell)

... and more pending with the TKRP methodology are: Cape York, Cape Tribulation South West Queensland Mackey Gladstone Northern and Southern Gulf Western Australia South Australia ...

23. Education Shell
(Case Studies/Education Shell)

...nbsp;  It is an exciting time for Telstra, University of Technology Sydney, Education Queensland, and other partners to be involved in this project and keep up the momentum of supporting ...

24. Fire and the Story Documentary
(Communities - Aurukun/Aurukun)

...K burning techniques. Aurukun traditionally manage many accessible areas of country on their homelands with traditional fire practices every year.  The community are seeking assistance to...

25. Management Aspirations for Kija
(Communities - Buru/Buru)

...nt and types of activities that can be carried out at Buru (ie Wet Tropics Management Authority, Queensland Parks and Wildlife and Traditional Owners).  They also want to ensure that any activ...

26. Kuku-Thaypan Saxby Outstation Project
(Case Studies/Kuku-Thaypan Saxby Outstation)

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) has granted the KuKu-Thaypan people an Out-Station at Saxby Lagoon.It is the first Out-Station in Cape York's National Parks area in Queensland.

27. Kuku-Thaypan Pelican Lake Project
(Case Studies/Kuku-Thaypan Pelican Lake)

... Pelican Lake (Ndolgin) is  a special native lagoon within Lakefield National Park, North Queensland. From the year 2000. The Elders assessed the area finding current problems that where s...

28. Lama Lama\KuKu-Thaypan Low Lake Project
(Case Studies/KuKu-Thaypan\\Lama Lama Low Lake Project)

  The management techniques of Low Lake (a special lagoon in a Queensland National Park) have been altered to respect, and benefit from, the traditional management regimes of the Lama Lam

29. Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways
(TKRP/TKRP)

...enous)  knowledge from a grass roots methodology." Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers please be warned that this site may contain images of deceased people.  All ...

30. Kuku-Thaypan Country
(Communities - Kuku Thaypan/ Kuku Thaypan - Cape York)

...aya or Kuku-Thaypan country is situated in the Lakefield National Park region of Cape York, North Queensland, Australia.    The nearest township of the community is Laura, which only ha...