Goods on Country
Good beds for remote homes, made with community.
The Stretch Bed is recycled plastic, galvanised steel and canvas, and goes together in five minutes with no tools. 540 beds are in 11 communities, and the making is moving closer to the people who use them.
For homes and organisations
Buy beds
One bed online, or a quote and invoice for your organisation.
For community organisations
Sell beds in your community
100 beds for your organisation to sell, and the money stays with you.
For funders and supporters
Back the work
Grants, gifts and loans, and what each one pays for.
Goods on Country is a DGR1 charity led by 100% Indigenous Directors. Goods on Country is the trading name of The Butterfly Movement Ltd, the registered charity. The change of company name to Goods on Country Ltd is being lodged. Who we are
- beds delivered
- 540
- beds delivered
- communities
- 11
- communities
- plastic diverted
- 3,540kg
- plastic diverted
Centrecorp Foundation
167 beds
ALIVE National Centre
100 beds
Homeland School Company, Maningrida
40 beds and 2 washing machines
Mala'la Health Service, Maningrida
13 beds
The Stretch Bed
Three parts, and five minutes to put together.
26kg, holds 200kg, and flat-packs for freight. Every bed carries a QR code to report a problem and get it fixed.
- 01Recycled plastic legsTwo X-legs pressed from community plastic, 20kg in every bed.
- 02Galvanised steel polesTwo poles thread through the canvas sleeves and the holes in the legs.
- 03Heavy-duty canvasThe canvas carries the load, so the bed stands when it is pulled tight.
Making in community
Beds assembled by the people who’ll sleep on them.
From rubbish to bed: a production plant in a shipping container turns community plastic into bed legs, and local people do the making.
01
Collect
Plastic from around community, sorted by colour and cleaned.
02
Shred
The shredder lives in the container and stays on site.
03
Press
Heated and pressed into sheets. The colour is whatever was collected.
04
Cut
A CNC router cuts the legs from the sheet.
05
Assemble
Poles through the sleeves and legs, then tension. No tools.
Case study · Gamardi, Manayingkarírra, Arnhem Land NT
Forty beds, pressed at the Goods on Country facility in Queensland, assembled in community.
A community-controlled organisation asked for beds and washing machines for homeland families. We pressed and packed the parts at our own facility, sent them north, and young people assembled every bed in community. It is the run that proves the making.
Designed in community
“We want to create a safe space for our young people. There’s a lack of housing, which leads to a lack of sleep, which leads to low school attendance.”
Oonchiumpa is a 100% Aboriginal-owned business in Alice Springs. Elders, young people and the Goods team have pulled Stretch Bed prototypes apart and changed them together, and Oonchiumpa held the build for Centrecorp’s beds for the Utopia homelands.
The Oonchiumpa partnership
Field notes
From Alice Springs to Utopia
Alice Springs · Utopia Homelands · Arawerr · Ampilatwatja, NT · 20–22 May 2026
Three days across Alice Springs, Utopia, Arawerr and Ampilatwatja. Young people built beds in Alice with Oonchiumpa. Local teams led the deliveries out to the homelands. We sat with Elders. 87 beds, materials from Centrecorp Foundation.
Beds for your community, or your organisation.
Health services, schools, housing programs, research programs and families have bought them. Tell us where the beds are going and we will quote the freight.