Empowering Indigenous communities through Colour
Colour: Bush Eucalypt
Our story
Jiga Jiga Paint is a first-of-its-kind national Supply Nation registered Indigenous brand supplying APAS-certified high-performance architectural and decorative paint products across Australia designed for use by professional applicators and home renovators. In the spirit of reconciliation, our products are carefully selected and manufactured in partnership with Haymes Paint.
Jiga Jiga Paint was created by Bevan Mailman and Tom Hutcheson who have extensive combined experience in commercial painting and community economic development. Both men had a desire to develop a paint brand and range of colours that celebrated First Nations ancient cultures and traditions and created employment and business opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.
The last piece of the puzzle was a meeting with the Haymes family who have been market leaders in paint manufacturing and supply since 1935.
The formation of Jiga Jiga paint is something that the Haymes family are incredibly proud of. It continues to build upon the late David Haymes’ legacy of making a positive impact on Australian communities. As Matt and Tim Haymes acknowledge, “Dad would love that we are part of this exciting, first-of-its-kind Indigenous paint brand, partnering with like-minded people wanting to make a real difference”.
Creating economic opportunities for communities
We are committed to developing Jiga Jiga Paint into a brand that allows us to work with traditional owners, and with their endorsement, empower them to sell and distribute our paint in their communities for local projects. Our hope is that communities will identify with our Indigenous/Australian paint brand and feel inspired and pride in being involved with Jiga Jiga Paint.
Our longer-term goals include:
Recruitment and knowledge sharing as an integral part of our Caring for Country, future development and manufacturing process.
Setting up Traineeships/Apprenticeships in communities to train local paint applicators
How Haymes Paint, our manufacturing partner, are involved
Haymes Paint is the largest Australian-made and owned paint manufacturer. Established in 1935, the family-owned business has maintained its head office and manufacturing in Ballarat. With over 5,000+ paint colours and annual colour library releases, Haymes Paint is a leader in colour, defining the colour trends that the DIY market and the design industry will see each season.
Haymes Paint offers interior and exterior paint, specialty finishes, woodcare, concrete and paving coatings, render and texture, protective and industrial coatings. Proudly independent, Haymes Paint is available through more than 350 paint stockists across Australia including Haymes Paint Shops and Paint Right stores.
Haymes Paint have strong community values and a desire to impact Indigenous communities which is a perfect fit for us. As an exceptional brand which is evident in the quality of paints and service delivery, Haymes Paint provides us with support, industry expertise and manufacturing to help us grow as our key capability partner.
Colour: Stringybark
Our team
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Bevan Mailman
Chairman
Bevan Mailman is a descendant of the Bidjara peoples of Central West Queensland and the Ngāti Porou and Te Arawa tribes of Aotearoa. He is the Managing Director of Jaramer Legal, Australia’s first national Indigenous law firm and Co-Chairman of Desert Springs Octopus, companies which are assisting in the initiation and facilitation of new enterprise, infrastructure and community development projects amongst remote and regional Indigenous communities.
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Thomas Hutcheson
Director
A descendant of the Wakka Wakka and Kabbi Kabbi tribes of the Cherbourg region of Queensland, Thomas Hutcheson moved to the Northern Territory with his family of 9 when he was twelve. It is here that he has passionately built and leads a successful business founded on his skills in painting and his passion for transferring skills to young Aboriginal people. Initially a sole trader, Tom spent half a decade learning the trade and the following 35+ years building a sustainable business model.
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Irene Wagner
Client Services and Support
Irene is originally from far North Queensland. She has an extensive background in customer service across several industries including retail, hospitality and government. Irene believes that Jiga Jiga Paint can achieve great things in business and for communities in the spirit of Reconciliation and partnership.
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Tim Haymes
Director
Tim Haymes is the Commercial Sales and Strategy Director at Haymes Paint. He hails from a family whose name has become synonymous with paint and today works alongside his siblings, Matt and Belinda, and brother-in-law, Rod Walton – all third generation of the iconic business their grandfather founded in 1935.
In recent years Tim has worked closely with Haymes Paints’ stores and sales teams around Australia and overseas, fostering customer relationships and growing new opportunities – especially in Japan where he has spent considerable time. He leads innovation across the company with a focus on product, service, systems, and support.
Having grown up in the family business, Tim remembers stacking shelves and dusting paint cans in the company’s Ballarat store and playing hide and seek in the warehouse with his brother Matt, before he was old enough to work there during school holidays. More recently, Tim has led the major expansion of that same manufacturing site.
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Matt Haymes
Director
Matt Haymes is no stranger to paint, having grown up around the Ballarat headquarters of his families’ iconic Australian paint brand. Today, he continues his family’s legacy now in its third generation, working in the day-to-day operations as a Director of Haymes Paint.
Like his father before him, Matt has been immersed in the paint business from an early age. Together with his brother Tim, he has fond memories of “working” in Ballarat’s original Haymes factory during the school holidays as a youngster.
This unique childhood proved to be an invaluable opportunity for Matt, Tim and sister Belinda to learn decades of knowledge and experience from within the family business. Today, Matt is involved in running Haymes Paint alongside his brother Tim Haymes, sister Belinda Haymes and brother-in-law Rod Walton, out of the company’s Headquarters in Ballarat. Collectively, they’ve learnt so much growing their family business to be an internationally renowned company, as both colleagues and siblings.
Having experienced the triumphs and hardships of running a family-owned business firsthand, Matt understands the importance of supporting other Australian owned and operated family businesses.
Meet Jiga Jiga, the Willie Wag Tail
Jiga Jiga is one of the names for the Willie Wag Tail given by the Bidjara people of Central West Queensland. Certain groups believe that the Willie Wag Tail is a messenger bird and, like the ancient paintings found throughout Australia, can bring a message or leave one for future generations.
Colour: Be