Our Vision

Coober Pedy is a vibrant, empowered, inspired community of people working together with pride and respect to honour their heritage and seek opportunities for all.

Our Story

Our community is built from many different components, where we have created our own culture based on past knowledge and experience, of Aboriginal traditional knowledge, and with a mix of new nationalities who were drawn by the allure of precious opals. Today we are a welcoming regional hub of the far north, with a focus on business, tourism, and opal mining, with great opportunities for future development and employment.

Our focus for the future is for the needs of individuals to be recognized, and to develop and continually improve Coober Pedy to be a happy, healthy, safe, prosperous, harmonious, and united community for all ages.

Creating A Container for Change

Coober Pedy Together is about working together to find a way forward together. It recognizes that over the years, many people have provided many hours of time and incredible efforts to bring together several different plans to move the community forward. We value and respect these plans and seek to build on them.

Coober Pedy Together is about bringing about change, community spirit, community pride, and sense of purpose for the community of Coober Pedy. It’s about creating a common plan and vision. It is about resourcing the community to be able to create the place in which they would like to live. Initial community planning workshops were held during September 2021 – March 2022.

The work is led by a group of residents who were voted for by the community, known as the Coober Pedy Together Facilitation Group.