Comber Consultants

17/05/2025

Here's a recent podcast

Podcast Episode · Rolling Through Negotiations: First Nations Leadership, BJJ & Business Strategy · 05/14/2025 · 33m

26/12/2024

Sorry everyone, for all the posts, but I have a couple more awards:

Australia Day Award from Ashfield Council for "Outstanding Community Services", in 2014.

Plus, I was a nominee for the NSW Volunteer of the Year Award, this year.

Both of the above were as a result of my volunteer JP services staffing a JP desk at Ashfield library twice a month on Saturday mornings, for many years.

I am also a volunteer with the Red Cross Emergency Services. I have been activated for floods, fires and was even activated on the night of the Lindt Cafe siege in 2014. I have staffed evacuation centres and the Police Public Information & Inquiry Centre (PIIC), Welfare Call Centre helping to provide information to the public.

Working with the Red Cross has been very rewarding. I have worked with many dedicated volunteers and have been humbled to assist people in crisis.

This is it! This will be the last post bragging about myself!

26/12/2024

I am also honoured, this year, to have been awarded the National Trust's Cathy Donnelly award for "Outstanding Female Heritage Professional.

26/12/2024

I am honoured to be awarded, just this month, Lifetime Membership of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologist (AACAI) for my long-standing service as a full member of AACAI and contribution to the broader archaeological consulting world. The citation reads:

"We are delighted to welcome Dr Jillian Comber as a new Life Member of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Incorporated.

Jillian was a very early and long-term member and promoter of AACAI. Throughout her long career based primarily in NSW, she has embodied professionalism, and has worked tirelessly to support communities and colleagues.

Jillian has been a dedicated mentor to many young archaeologists, and strongly supported the Flinders University graduate archaeology program. In recent years she also commenced a unique Indigenous traineeship program, affording Indigenous students a salary while studying and the opportunity to work for Comber Consulting in university breaks in order to develop both formal qualifications and practice experience in Cultural Heritage Management.

Jillian worked widely across both Indigenous and historical archaeology, and is an extremely well deserving recipient of Life Membership to AACAI 👏 👏 👏"

26/12/2024

It's been too long since I posted anything, so I decided the end of the year was a good time to post and to skite about our awards. For the last three years we have received the Australian Enterprise Awards "Best Cultural Heritage Specialists", and were again successful this year.

In 2022 we received Corporate Vision's Small Business Award and also in 2022 we were the Australian Global 100 Winner.

I'm on a roll and the next post will be about my personal awards.

22/03/2023

First Nations people must work until they're 67 before getting the pension, just like white people. But we have a much lower life expectancy.

30/05/2022

SHAP22 - Bake It competition!

Baking creations inspired by Archaeology or the Sydney
Historical Archaeology Practitioners’ Workshop (SHAP) 2022

30/05/2022

Comber Consultants, thanks everyone who participated to SHAP22! It was a great event and it was lovely to finally being able to meet everyone face to face!

16/05/2022

SHAP22 Program
Archaeology of Resilience

When: 9am to 5pm AEST Friday 20 May 2022

Where: The Refectory, Holme Building, Science Road, The University of Sydney

Download the program here:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cb3a3fd34c4e2017e30f3de/t/62823315f03ad051394bb7bc/1652699930913/SHAP22-Program.pdf

Cost: $110.00 (General admission), $88.00 (ASHA/AACAI/ICOMOS/AIMA/AAA members), $50.00 (Students)

Registration: https://sydney.onestopsecure.com/onestopweb/V96/booking?UDS_ACTION_DATA=Yl4jCENEWwZOWyR3QEJDDSxfQndBLkMbKTNBVwZDJkJ9MFkh

For more information: Please contact Agata Calabrese at [email protected] or on (02) 9799 6000.

National Archaeology Week: https://archaeologyweek.org/events-list/sydney-historical-archaeology-practitioners-workshop-2-xtk5f

The annual Sydney Historical Archaeology Practitioners’ Workshop is an opportunity for those with an interest in historical archaeology to gather and discuss advances in historical archaeology and interesting results from excavations undertaken over the last year across the wider Sydney area.

02/05/2022

SHAP2022 – ARCHAEOLOGY OF RESILIENCE

REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://sydney.onestopsecure.com/onestopweb/V96/booking?UDS_ACTION_DATA=Yl4jCENEWwZOWyR3QEJDDSxfQndBLkMbKTNBVwZDJkJ9MFkh

9am - 5pm Friday 20 May 2022 | University of Sydney

SHAP is an ideal place to present papers for both students, recent graduates and new consultants and we particularly welcome any requests to present from first-time speakers. Comber Consultants and School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (The University of Sydney) welcomes expressions of interest to present papers on the topic of archaeology of resilience, as well as on other topics of interest and on emerging issues in Historical Archaeology. Groups of presenters are also welcome.

Presentations should not be any more than 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions (total 20 minutes or less).

Abstracts should be sent at: [email protected] to be considered for this year’s program.

20/04/2022

National Archaeology Week 2022 is fast approaching!!!!

From May 15 (Sun) to May 21 (Sat) join us for a nationwide program of events celebrating Australian archaeology and the work of Australian archaeologists. More info here: https://archaeologyweek.org/events-list?category=NSW.

As part of the National Archaeology Week 2022, join us Friday 20th of May for SHAP22. The Sydney Historical Archaeology Practitioners’ (SHAP) Workshop is an opportunity for heritage practitioners from professional consultancies and Government to join students, academics and those with an interest in historical archaeology to gather and discuss advances in historical archaeology and interesting results from excavations undertaken over the last year across the wider Sydney area.

SHAP22 will be hosted by Comber Consultants and the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. More info here: https://archaeologyweek.org/events-list/sydney-historical-archaeology-practitioners-workshop-2-xtk5f.

May 1 to May 21 Online Bake It! Make It! Sun, May 1, 2022 8:00 AM 08:00 Sat, May 21, 2022 2:00 PM 14:00 Google Calendar ICS Bake or make a creation inspired by archaeology! Knit a scale bar, bake artefact biscuits, model a monument, the only limit is your imagination. View Event →