The right people, before work starts.
Most problems on remote projects are not technical. They start with a conversation that never happened, or happened with the wrong person.
Consultation done from a capital city is a set of assumptions. Consultation done from here is a set of relationships — built over years, and still standing after the project closes.
TJ Civil & Services plans, runs and records community consultation and liaison across the Victoria River District and wider Northern Territory.
What this covers
- Consultation planning — who needs to be spoken with, in what order, and when
- Meeting arrangement, facilitation support and attendance
- Community notices and information sessions
- Plain-language and in-language community materials
- Meeting notes, issue registers and action tracking
- Follow-up and close-the-loop reporting — so people know what happened to what they raised
- Ongoing liaison for the life of a project
Why the follow-up matters most
Communities in this region have been consulted many times. What is rare is being told what happened afterwards. Closing the loop is the part most projects skip, and it is the part that determines whether the next consultation is possible.
Every issue raised in a meeting we run goes into a register, gets an owner and a response, and is reported back — to the community and to you.
Information in language. Where a community needs information in language, we can produce it through the Aboriginal AI Interpreter™ — our own trademarked translation software, built with community governance in it. More on this →