Our long-term partnerships with Traditional Owner Groups build internal skills and help lay the foundation for sustainable self-management, community representation and economic independence. We have helped Traditional Owners coordinate a range of activities in the areas of culture, land, education, health, music and arts, with mutual benefit to community members and organisations. We create tangible outcomes that community members are proud of.

• Recording oral histories
• Capturing cultural information and language
• Creating user-friendly databases for communities
• Language revival projects
• Design and production of high quality media
• Web design

TRQ offers strategies and advice to ensure clients can effectively manage their communities’ aspirations by delivering long term programs that incorporate heritage preservation, maintenance and intergenerational knowledge transfer. Whether its advice on compliance requirements or designing and implementing complex cultural management programs, we’re here to help.

• Cultural Heritage Management Plans
• CHMP audit and review
• Impact assessments
• Stakeholder engagement and consultation
• Heritage Agreement negotiation and implementation
• Due diligence assessments
• Legislative compliance advice
• Heritage program planning

TRQ partners with On Country Academy (OCA) to deliver accredited training that can lead to careers as

• Indigenous rangers
• Heritage field officers
• Aboriginal tour guides and more

TRQ is committed to helping Traditional Owner groups achieve their native title goals and aspirations for their country. From conducting comprehensive native title research, through to connection to country tips.

• Review and analysis of native title materials and relevant secondary sources
• Conduct documentary and field research to prepare registration test reports
• Genealogical research
• Independent anthropological advice
• Research traditional decision-making processes
• Research in support of ILUAs and other agreement processes.
• Facilitate engagement with service providers best placed to progress your long-term needs
• Post-determination PBC support
• Facilitate Return of Materials process
• Develop appropriate archival facilities to comprehensively manage claim materials, including native title specific database development

As a company that prides itself on innovation and adaptability, we aim to continually be at the forefront of the latest technology and systems to provide the highest quality insights and information for our partners. This means stories of Country can live on through recording and documentation.

Our suite of Mapping and Geospatial technologies allows us to record and access commercial, cultural, and environmental information in new and productive ways. We offer a wide range of preservation, mapping and interpretation services which are fundamental to the long-term sustainable management of cultural heritage sites.

From 3D data modelling and spatial recording to data management, and virtual tours, we are always searching for productive ways to record and assess information, so our clients get the best out of their spatial data. As we like to say, ‘a more betterer’ approach to mapping.

TRQ’s in-house team includes highly skilled anthropologists, archaeologists, spatial data specialists and heritage consultants to provide professional heritage approval advice you can trust. Our combined multi-disciplinary team’s extensive national and international experience ensures all stakeholders, including Traditional Owners, corporate clients, and industry bodies, are represented to the highest degree, and all outputs comply with all relevant legislation.

• Work area and work program clearance surveys
• Site avoidance surveys
• Section 18 site Identification surveys
• Section 16 excavations
• Archaeological and cultural salvage
• Historical archaeological work