With many Hands
What is Burnie Works?
Burnie Works is a collective impact initiative contributing to positive change in the areas of education, employment, justice, child youth families and wellbeing. It is place-based work that has emerged from issues and opportunities identified in the pataway / Burnie community and enables action with a large cast of stakeholders through working groups and community projects. In Burnie, the key stakeholders come from the focus areas and are both govt and NGO representatives, local industry, palawa and others with lived experience.
Burnie Works has a collaboration agreement with the Australian Government, Department of Social Services, Department of Communities Tasmania, Burnie City Council, Beacon Foundation and the University of Tasmania.
Burnie Works has a Local Enabling Group, a systems leader and a backbone team made up of project officer, understanding measurement evaluation and learning officer, communication and community engagement officer and administration officer. The collective impact initiative is funded by Stronger Places, Stronger People – implemented by the Australian Government, Department of Social Services in partnership with state and territory governments and 10 communities across Australia. The longer term goal of Stronger Places, Stronger People is to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage that is concentrated in particular communities around Australia, including Burnie in North West Tasmania.
Survival Cards
As part of a social recovery movement, these Burnie Works Survival Cards encourage us to find life within and around us.
The cards can be used personally, with family and friends, in groups and professionally.
All cards were illustrated by Liz from Ebb Draws.
Latest News

Burnie Works, the brand.
Burnie Works Ltd was rebranded in June 2021 which coincided with the collective impact initiative becoming it’s own entity. Burnie Works was originally hosted by

Burnie Families -School Holiday Ideas
Do you have any great ideas to share? Please get in touch! The School Holiday Flyer has come to life from group discussion at the

Early is great, but it’s never too late.
Right now, across the city of Burnie there are young human beings experiencing their first 1000 days of life. Some of them are the size

Pataway
*acknowledgement of pirinilaplu from pataway, lutruwita.