John Beattie

John has nearly 30 years working in senior management and consulting roles across the Aboriginal cultural heritage, indigenous affairs, infrastructure, and Aboriginal owned and controlled business and not for profit sectors. He led the development and implementation of the NSW Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS), as well as innovative Aboriginal programs supporting Aboriginal community projects in NSW.

His work has a strong focus on Aboriginal led Whole-of-Country approaches to managing the natural and built environment, cultural heritage, and landscape resources.

John works on statewide Aboriginal policies and initiatives while continuing to directly support the delivery of local community led projects.

As a senior consultant for over a decade, he is currently focused on large scale transfers of public lands to Aboriginal ownership, disaster risk planning and recovery informed by local Aboriginal community leadership, and large infrastructure projects that support government and business clients to work more effectively with their Aboriginal stakeholders.