Project Experience

The ND&A heritage consultants bring together a broad range of project experience and achievements across Australia, including:

• Cultural heritage management for Woodside Energy projects and facilities in Western Australia from 2001, including Northwest Shelf Joint Venture Second Trunkline and LNG Train 4-5 expansions, Pluto Project, Browse Project. • Cultural heritage management for mineral exploration and mine-development projects in Western Australia (Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals Group, BHP Billiton Barrack Gold and many others) and South Australia (Oz Minerals and many others).
• Expert heritage advice for Aboriginal corporations representing Aboriginal Traditional Owners/Custodians and Native Title groups such as (central Australia), Banjima, Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi, Noongar, Wadjarri, Ngadju, Mirning and Wutha (Western Australia), Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjantjara, Kokatha, Kaurna, Ngadjuri, Barngarla Narungga, Ngadjuri, Ngarrindjeri (South Australia), Gunditjmara and others (Victoria), Kabi Kabi and Wulli Wulli (Queensland).
• Native title research and expert report and testimony (anthropology, archaeology, history, GIS mapping) for Kokatha (central South Australia), Kaurna (Adelaide region, SA) Banjima (eastern Pilbara, WA), Ngadju, Esperence Noongar and Western Mirning (southern Goldfields and western Nullarbor, Western Australia), Wutha (north west Goldfields, WA), Kabi Kabi (SE Queensland), and Wutha Wonnarua (NSW). Review of native title expert reports and evidence for the Department of Justice, Victoria, the Crown Solicitor’s Office, NSW, and SA Native title Services, Inc.
• Heritage expert reports to the Federal Court, State and Local Courts (Mining, Environment, Magistrates Courts) and the Kumarangk-Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission, for Government Agencies (reviews of Heritage site recording standards and heritage assessment issues relating to LNG processes on the Pilbara and Kimberley Coasts for the WA Government, and expert assessments related to Ministerial applications under the SA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988, native title claim reviews for the SW and Victorian Governments, and to resources Corporations such as Woodside, Rio Tinto, Inpex, Kimberley Ports Authority, Areva, etc.
• Heritage management, survey, and reporting for major infrastructure projects including the Defence AIR7000 Project at RAAF Edinburgh, Burrup Service Corridors (DOIR, WA), Perth water supply extensions (Watercorp WA), Adelaide and SA regional water supplies (SA Water), roads (Transport SA), wind farm developments (Pacific Hydro, Hydro Tasmania, Trust Power (NZ), Starfish Hill Wind Farm SA, and others), Electricity supply infrastructure (Electranet SA, ETSA), and many major urban planning and development projects for State and Local Government and commercial development projects. Spatial analysis, predictive modelling and digital mapping projects related to the distribution of heritage sites on the landscape (e.g., Onkaparinga Water Catchment Board SA, WA Government, Woodside), and the distribution of environmental features for organisations such as the Department of Defence.
• Development and delivery of cultural heritage awareness training and induction packages for major development projects (e.g., Inpex LNG plant, Darwin, NT).