We offer diverse workforce opportunities that build and recruit sustainable pathways for local Indigenous community members.
Welcome to BB Country Services (BBCS)
We provide sustainable employment opportunities in the infrastructure and mining industries, designed to upskill and improve the Indigenous workforce, with a long-term vision that directly and positively impacts the shared community. Operating directly out of the Bowen Basin, we offer a diverse range of mining and civil services and equipment hire.
Due to our connections within the community and a sustainable and reliable Indigenous workforce, we are primed to meet growing demand in mining and civil projects.
Unique in its field, BB Country Services strives to offer the highest standard of services across a range of areas within the mining and civil industry. Known for consistency, precision and long-term reliability, BBCS continues to set the benchmark for excellence across every project.
Stockpile Management
Efficiently managing bulk material into multiple stockpiles – using everything from simple dump methods to advanced conveyor stackers – ensures safe, reliable and maximised throughput in the Bowen Basin.
Coal Haulage
Providing end-to-end coal haulage solutions for small and large operations, our fully operated and maintained equipment paired with skilled teams will meet and exceed tonnage requirements without delays.
Equipment Hire
Wet or dry industrial equipment is available for long or short-term hire and we can provide a large selection of lighting towers, tyre handlers, light vehicles, medium vehicles or heavy mobile equipment (dozers, water carts and graders).
Rehabilitation
We provide expert bulk earthworks and landform shaping services, preparing sites precisely to meet your project's rehabilitation requirements.
Project Management
Access several professionals with 20+ years of experience to lead small or large teams to complete deliverables within a set timeframe. Our project management experience involves project documentation, planning, tracking and communication – all to deliver work successfully within the constraints of time, scope and budget.
A personal note from our chairperson, Luarna Dynevor
The Barada Barna People have lived on and cared for our Country for countless generations. We are proud of our culture, our elders and our community. Our corporation supports our people by advocating for our rights, managing native title interests, creating opportunities and ensuring our culture remains strong and alive.
On 29 June 2016, at the Moranbah Community Hall, Justice Dowsett granted the Barada Barna People their Consent Determination. This determination recognises the Barada Barna People as the Traditional Owners of the land we are on today. The moment was bittersweet, as Justice Dowsett had previously been the judge who dismissed the Barada Barna People’s original claim.
Barada Barna Native Title
The Barada Barna Native Title journey began in late 1993, when the late Uncle Frank Budby objected to the construction of the Burton Gorge Dam. The proposed site was too close to cave paintings that he and his family had visited while his children were growing up. As a young man, Uncle Frank worked on cattle properties with his father, and it was during that time that he learned about the cave paintings. From then on, he became increasingly involved in fighting for the rights of our people.
Together with the late Norman Brown, Frank began working in 1994 to lodge the first Native Title claim with the National Native Title Tribunal. This claim was submitted in 1997 as BBKY#1 (Barada Barna Kabalbarra Yetimarla), representing the four groups in the region. That initial claim was later replaced by BBKY#2, followed by BBKY#3 and BBKY#4 between 2001 and 2008.
Barada Barna Ancestors
Through extensive anthropological research, ten apical ancestors have been identified in Barada Barna history. All Barada Barna descendants today can trace their lineage back to these ancestors.
The Common Law Holders comprise all the descendants of:
Bob Lotus
Lizzy Payne
Daisy (wife of Booya McDonald)
Maggie (wife of Toby Barker, Peter Darwin and Michael Angus)
“Polly” Mary (wife of Robert Noble and Bert Fox)
Lizzie (wife of Paddy Flynn)
Polly (wife of Thomas Mitchell)
Lucy Ross
Laura (wife of “Duke “George Barker, “Neddy” Teddy Sauney and Adam Bowen)
Charles Budby (father of George “Salt Bush” Budby)