The Songlines Project
Australian Conservation Foundation
Stakeholder Engagement Through Country
The Songlines Project used a nine-day walk along the Lurujarri Heritage Trail in the Kimberley region of Western Australia as a vehicle for deep stakeholder engagement.
Guided by the Goolarabooloo families on their ancestral country, a carefully selected group of influential stakeholders underwent an immersive experience of culture, land, and place. The project was premised on the idea that direct, embodied encounters with country could generate a quality of environmental advocacy that no conventional engagement process could replicate.
The trail passes through the contested Walmadan/James Price Point site, giving the experience an immediate political dimension.
