Our Vision To bring healing and prosperity to our community by respecting our past, present, and future by achieving the dreams and aspirations of our people who bought us here. Our Purpose Develop a foundation for our people to have a safe home that is rich in culture and has a strong sense of community. Our Values Create an enduring, thriving culture and identity, through honest and strong leadership. Our Future To become a strong thriving community, we need Government and non-Government agencies to work with us and invest in our journey to progressing our community priorities and aspirations. Community driven initiatives, have to be owned by the community. “If we build it, they will come. If we drive it, they will steer it. If we grow it, they will flourish from it”. As a people we are a community – As a community we are a people. Jumbun Community is a small Aboriginal community that was formally established in 1978. It is situated halfway between Cairns and Townsville and located in Murray Upper Nth Qld. The community consists of 109 people who live on 600 acres of beautiful and unique freehold land that is surrounded in part by tropical rainforest. Our Aspirations Jumbun Limited has a 45-year history in the development of our community. We have seen see many successes, failures and interactions with a wide range of government organisations. We are working to form meaningful partnerships that will improve outcomes. In 2019, we documented our community’s aspirations during a series of community consultations with our residents. Our aspirations in line with the 5 pillars of self-determination are: • Ecology – Ensure access to healthy organic food, shelter, clean water, and sustainable energy in ways that respect the cycles of nature, integrating with our land, increasing biodiversity, and regenerating ecosystems as we had done traditionally. • Economy – Build fair economic practices and systems that contribute to the sharing of resources, mutual support, and strong local economies and networks: actively working to provide sustainable alternatives to the mainstream economy and monetary system, and reclaiming ways of thinking about wealth and progress. • Social – Actively work to build trust, collaboration and openness that empowers our people to be seen and heard; and have a sense of belonging through community diversity and relationships, common projects, shared goals, and social processes. • Culture – Build a thriving diverse culture that supports people to care for one another, our community, and our land; to connect through cultural practices, art, storytelling, and dance, respect our traditional and contemporary ways of life and the beings and systems that sustain it. • Whole Systems Design – Identify the appropriate scale for efficient solutions, find strengths, weakness and leverage points in all areas, honour traditional wisdom while integrating positive innovation, engage all stakeholders in designs for the future, build networks and alliances for mutual support across all divides, learn from nature and practice whole systems thinking. A key impediment for Jumbun Limited achieving their goal of self-determination, is the identification of how Jumbun Limited can generate income through its operations to offset the future costs of the operational and capital costs of essentially running a small community without any State or Federal Government assistance. To do this, Jumbun Limited would have to place these costs onto residents as per normal Local Government Association arrangements and would be unaffordable to the residents. Services & Facilities The Jumbun Community facilities include: • 26 residential houses • A community hall • Social Services agent office • Cultural (Keeping Place) Building • Medical clinic • Water and Sewage Infrastructure Our community also has the following: • Water • Communication • Housing • Sewerage management • Gas • Rubbish collection • Shopping (nearby) Water Our water supply comes from the Murray Falls and is fully treated and regularly tested to ensure that it meets NH and MRC guidelines for drinking water. Housing Jumbun Limited manages all the community housing. Sewerage management Our community is fully sewered. Gas The community hall and 1 residential property operates on gas Rubbish collection Wheelie bins are collected by the CCRC once weekly. Shopping Many of our residents and visitor choose to shop directly with shops in Tully (approximately 30km away) or Cardwell (approximately 40km away).