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Community engagement

Landholders, key stakeholders and the community are crucial collaborators throughout the World Heritage process, helping to explore and shape how we can best position the Flinders Ranges to maximise economic opportunities from a potential World Heritage Listing.

Community engagement

A Community Reference Group has been created to ensure that local perspectives, voices, issues and opportunities are heard throughout the nomination process for World Heritage. The group represents the following stakeholders:

  • Adnyamathanha People
  • Tourism sector
  • Landholders of key identified properties/sites
  • Local Government/Outback Communities Authority/Government
  • Local community members – pastoralists, people with particular expertise/interest in geo-tourism, nature based/eco-tourism
  • Economic development practitioners
  • DEW representatives to guide the process and provide executive support.

The CRG complements the technically-rigorous nomination process underway, as set out in the UNESCO World Heritage Centre's Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention.

A successful World Heritage bid will be subject to community ownership, support and action at a local and regional level.

Community engagement

Cecilia Woolford is the CRG independent chair, selected by the group for this role to actively support the community in the development of the World Heritage nomination. Cecilia chaired her first meeting in February 2020.

Cecilia and the CRG are crucial in making the bid a success – they know the region and understand its people. They recognise that developing widespread regional ownership of the nomination is vital, and are committed to playing their part in achieving their region’s vision of World Heritage.

For any queries related to community outreach or project updates, Cecilia can be contacted on cecilia.woolford3@sa.gov.au or 0427 627 726.

Community Reference Group Meetings

The Community Reference Group meets quarterly in the region. At each meeting, the group develops a set of key messages about the project that can be shared with the wider community.

Acknowledgement of Country

Acknowledgement of Country

The state government acknowledges Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the lands and waters we live and work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.

We work in partnership with the First Peoples of South Australia and support their Nations to take a leading role in caring for their Country.