In roughly ten year periods of work, Rick Farley (1952-2006) shaped Australian understandings of economic reform, environmental sustainability and Indigenous reconciliation. His noted public achievements are in forging new modes of 'agro-politics', the co-founding of Landcare, work in Native Title negotiations and in building support for reconciliation. Behind these activities, however, was also a career of influential private lobbying and facilitation. This project analyses Farley’s work as architect and builder of partnerships across these concerns. It catalogues what he did, reflects on the infrastructure he created, and explores the contribution he foreshadowed but his early death prevented. It documents, for the first time, Farley’s contribution to understandings of the urgent questions of Australia’s economic, cultural and environmental sustainability. Farley’s insistence that community alliances were vital to meeting global challenges, magnified by Australia’s degraded landscapes and the alienation of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous custodians of those lands, remains as relevant now as it was when he brokered initiatives such as Landcare