Shared Responsibility Agreements

Shared Responsibility Agreement

The Mitchell community want to preserve and develop their cultural heritage. The community are concerned that, with the passing of elders, knowledge of the community’s history and stories will be lost. A lot of that community history is associated with the Yumba, a former reserve near the town.

The SRA will develop an Interpretative Walking Trail at the Yumba to share the Yumba story with school children, tourists and the non-Indigenous community of Mitchell.

When completed, the trail will be an important tourist attraction, helping the local community to earn income and provide life skills through training, work experience and employment.

Volunteers will clean up and build the walking trail, and the community will promote the trail to local schools and tourist operators. They will also approach schools, local businesses and TAFE to organise training and work experience. Local artists and storytellers will work with the community to record the Yumba story.

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Key Facts

Regional town 600 km W of Brisbane.

Population:

2000, of whom 115 are Indigenous

Focus of the SRA:

Heritage

What the SRA provides:

Interpretive Walking Trail

ICC:

Roma

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