DUSTY WILSON

Owner and Facilitator – Dreamtime Games

Dusty is the founder of Dreamtime Games and is a descendant of the Kooma and Murrawari people. He has extensive experience delivering traditional Indigenous games activities and sporting activities in communities across South West Queensland.

Dusty has a lifelong love of sport and spent a large part of his youth participating in a variety of different sports such as Aussie Rules and Basketball. He enjoys passing on the cultural knowledge of the games through the language of physical activity.

Dusty has experience working for major state sporting bodies such as AFL QLD and non-for-profit organisations such as the Clontarf Foundation and the QLD PCYC, where he spent 7 years as the Toowoomba Indigenous Community Sport and Recreation Officer.​ He also spent many years on the executive committee of the South West Indigenous Network (SWIN) developing regional sports education tour programs (the TRAX tour program) which provides sport and recreation opportunities to communities in the most remote parts of the state and assisting with events such as the Western Rivers Cup Indigenous cricket carnival.

He is Yulunga trained and has had the pleasure of delivering traditional Indigenous games sessions to over 100 schools across South West QLD. He has also delivered games activities for Outside School Hours Care services and at various community festival events such as the Toowoomba NAIDOC Family Fun Day, Brisbane City Council Mt Coo-tha School Holiday programs and at QLD Government Deadly Sports Expo events across Southern QLD.

He enjoys working in the community and outside of Dreamtime Games he also works for the QLD Ambulance Service and as part of the Youth Worker team at the Toowoomba Regional Council’s YouthConnect program.