Doomadgee, Queensland

Doomadgee is a remote Indigenous community in the Gulf of Carpentaria. BuiltQuik is proud to be working in partnership with the community to support their housing development as the Queensland place-based partnership pilot community for Closing the Gap’s national agreement, supporting community-led development pathways. BuiltQuik is working with Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council and local partnership and community member-driven organisation Gunawuna Jungai to develop new home designs and land activations projects for each of the Doomadgee family groups. Essential to this is understanding housing industry development aspirations and opportunities to build capacity within the community. 

 

Doomadgee community members have driven the project’s development, supporting the activation of regional outstations for families to live and develop agricultural and tourism business operations over time, transitioning Traditional Owner lands from being managed by council to being family-owned and managed. BuiltQuik’s semi-prefabricated framing system is particularly suited to this context, allowing for rapid assembly and fit-out using local labour and materials. The medium-long term goals are to build capacity in Doomadgee by training local workers to undertake not only the installation and fit-out of homes, but eventually structural fabrication as well. 

 

This approach aligns with BuiltQuik’s core delivery model: empowering communities to drive their own housing solutions and create lasting local employment pathways. Gunawuna Jungai and the community members are continuing to work with BuiltQuik to refine floor plans for every family group in Doomadgee, as they simultaneously work through the separate process to secure Native title land tenure for the initial builds to begin on-Country.