About Us

Gunggandji Aerospace is a 100% Aboriginal and veteran-owned and led business.

Founder and Managing Director Daniel Joinbee brings technical, operational, and leadership experience across Defence, aviation, government, industry, and Indigenous business. He is supported by experienced leaders and specialist technical expertise across the complex operating environments in which our clients work, strengthening our ability to understand client challenges and translate that understanding into confident delivery.

Gunggandji Aerospace sits within an integrated ecosystem that connects technical capability, workforce innovation, and future workforce development.

The Gunggandji Aerospace Ecosystem

Together, the Gunggandji Aerospace ecosystem connects aspiration with real opportunity, workforce capability with industry need, and commercial delivery with outcomes that matter for people, industry, and government.

Each part of the ecosystem has a distinct role, helping solve today’s challenges while creating stronger capability, broader participation, and greater opportunity for the future.

Gunggandji Workforce Innovation

Gunggandji Workforce Innovation helps organisations solve complex workforce and project delivery challenges through consulting, professional services, labour hire, workforce design, readiness, and retention.

Gunggandji Workforce Innovation website coming soon.

The Gunggandji Aerospace Foundation

The Gunggandji Aerospace Foundation builds aspiration and self-determination for the next generation of First Nations people, connecting young people with industries, experiences, and opportunities they may not otherwise encounter.

Gunggandji Aerospace Foundation website coming soon.

Our Identity

The Gunggandji Aerospace ecosystem is grounded in a belief in strength, resilience, and creating pathways forward, values reflected in the Yalma at the centre of our identity.

The Yalma is a ceremonial cross boomerang traditionally used by the Rainforest Bama of Yarrabah and Cairns. Its crossed form reflects those values, while the concentric circles reference flight and the Guyala, or Sea Eagle, which holds deep cultural significance for Gunggandji people.

For Gunggandji Aerospace, that identity also carries a responsibility to use our capability, relationships, and influence to create practical pathways into aviation, aerospace, and Defence.