Western Australia cattle ranch accommodation

Community
Home Valley Station is owned by the Indigenous Land Corporation and hosts an on-site TAFE training campus for Indigenous men and women from the Kimberley region, who are studying tourism & hospitality and a range of pastoral operations. The TAFE trainees are a integral part of the daily operation of the station including the operation of tour and activities for the visiting public. In conjunction with the on-site TAFE campus for Indigenous men and women, the ILC aims to provide positive economic, social and cultural outcomes for the local community.

Our commercial kitchen for our restaurant largely purchases its fresh produce from local farmers. We also grow a small amount of fresh produce on site. Home Valley Station works very closely with local tour operators in the Kununurra and wider Kimberley region on a daily basis. 90 per cent of employees are local to the wider Kimberley region.

Since acquiring the Home Valley pastoral lease in 1999, the ILC has endeavoured to involve local Indigenous people in all aspects of the station's operations. In both its tourism and pastoral enterprises, members of the local Indigenous communities have assisted in all manner of projects associated with the resurrection of what was, at the time of purchase, a poorly neglected cattle station.

East Kimberley TAFE is also a regular visitor to Home Valley, utilising our facilities for various aspects of the Rural Operations courses provided for young local men and women. And since 2006, TAFE has been part of the fabric of Home Valley through the incorporation into our tourist operations of up to 10 full-time students in Indigenous Tourism Traineeships. Effectively, these traineeships make Home Valley a centre of learning where practical tourism skills are taught in the course of a normal day on the Station: every bed that is made, every drink and meal that is served, every customer query that is answered, every camp site that is sold and every tour that is conducted is the hands-on tuition of our ten full-time, live-in Tourism Trainees, who live with and work alongside the Home Valley staff.

Through the ILC's alliance with Kimberley Group Training and East Kimberley TAFE, we will be in a position to maximise employment pathways and ensure full-time employment for all Certificate III graduates of Home Valley Tourism Traineeships.

Environment

Home Valley Station impacts little on the local environment. Being a self sustained property we rely on solar power for water heating and have installed the most efficient high tech generator possible to ensure minimum energy consumption.

Our top of the range computer operated generation ensures we use as little energy as possible on the entire station. We use environmentally responsible cleaning products and we compost organic waste. We recycle many materials to a point – but you have to understand we are a self sufficient station in the middle of the outback –there are very limited recycling services available within the East Kimberley shire able to assist due to our location.