Congratulations Luke Bray, Gerard Heffernan, Cecil Lardner, Tom McDonnell, Brad Melville, Bill Moad, Edward Moran, Rick Slater, Jamin Stankovic, Mark Stankovic, Chris Thompson and Joshua Van Der Heiden
Visionstream is a key national delivery partner for the nbn, enabling connections for local homes, businesses and communities across Australia.
The Mid-North Coast nbn team is passionate about finding ways they can truly make infrastructure work for communities. After commencing work in the Kempsey and Port Macquarie region in New South Wales, Australia, they demonstrated that they’re more than just a contractor by truly engaging with the local community.
After identifying a skills gap, the team engaged Real Futures, a training and employment service supporting indigenous Australians, to connect job-ready people with the team.
The partnership between the teams was so successful that Visionstream, Real Futures and local contractors joined forces to work on a community improvement program to restore a traditional Indigenous meeting place.
The team worked together to remove rubbish and weeds, install new park benches, upgrade the path and plant indigenous flora around the local footbridge, path and boat ramp.
The result? The revival of a traditional meeting place for the local community. Young Indigenous locals now have safer access to the footbridge that links South and West Kempsey, and the local picnic area has been revived to its former community feel.
Says Mayor Kempsey Shire Council, Elizabeth Campbell, “It’s been fantastic to see Visionstream come into our community, get to know and understand us, so that we’ve been able to deliver this project.”
Top image: Bill Moad (right) from the team with Glenn Craft and Adnan Khabbaz (Real Futures).
Second image: The team celebrate the revival of community area.
