17/08/2026
Hi everyone, since we have been busy doing our annual reporting all last month and now looking forward to preparing the annual grant audit process next…🫠 anyhoo we thought we might share some information about the year we had while we are collating data!
-From July 2025 to June 30 2026 our Board of Directors consisted of members that are Kombumerri descendants only. Five of us managing the Ngarang-Wal business and programs - we are 100% Kombumerri owned and managed 😃
-We represent around 73 members - with 45 of them being Kombumerri bloodline specifically!! 🔗
-We have a secondary ‘friends of’ type support membership line if you’re interested in supporting our group.
-Our main income is from NIAA for:
•Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) and;
•Indigenous Ranger Program (IRP).
-We have been lucky enough to be invited around our Kombumerri Country to do ceremony, lessons for all ages, awareness and history talks, guided tours, and welcome experiences. We are trying to build our own economy. But it means having to leave these funded programs and make up hours for them later - so we charge $$ for events!! ⭐️
Our data shows we had -
•28 casual workers on our books to help at the Guanaba IPA and events all over Kombumerri Country 🫶🏽
•20 of the 28 workers we employed are Indigenous identified!! 🙌🏼
•8 of the 28 are non-Indigenous deadly family and friends attached to our wonderful workers✌🏽
•5 of the 28 are Kombumerri 🎉
•3 full time staff and 1 part time for the funded programs - 3 Indigenous and 1 non-Indigenous 💪🏽
•Annual amount of events and engagements = 125+ with over 100+ providers that sourced our business 🖤
•Reconciliation Week & NAIDOC 2026 engagements = 32 💛
•Guanaba IPA annual visits = 800+ sign ins ❤️
We may need to increase our fees with all this workload!! 😁 thank you to our deadly City businesses and groups that continue to support us every year, we are inspired daily to care for culture and Country.
Check out some pics of our deadly work teams you may have seen around Kombumerri Country!! 👇🏽
Let us know where you seen us at and tag any groups that would like to mention 📝
Kombumerri Elebana Kunjiel
Kombumerri Rangers
