Kirra is a member-based Ecovillage Community Association of individuals. It is designed to allow people to be who they are without prejudice or criticism.

We are an ecologically motivated community with similar thinking about the world, the future and the way people are living today. Similarly, we think we can do a better job than the people that have been tasked with that role by society, the politicians.

Our aim is simple, live and let live. Do no harm. Enjoy things, people, the place and the environment for what it is, not what it could be by flattening it and building high-rise high-density dwellings full of people who don't know each other and don't care for each other.

Yes! - Kirra provides the most cost effective and carbon neutral housing anywhere in Australia. Our houses are essentially FREE!

Once you become a Community Citizen, the community will build you a house to suite the needs of your situation. This may be to suit a single person, couple or family. 

Each new Community Citizen is required to pay a bond which is used to expand the community to allow the intake of the new Community Citizens. This bond ranges from $10,000 (Studio Style home) to $59,000 (4 Bedroom, En-suite, Lounge and Kitchen) depending on the type of dwelling that you require to be comfortable. The bond also allows the community to increase its Solar Power provisions, and water catchment and purification provisions, together with fencing, cabling, plumbing and other essential services to suit the number of members it needs to service at any given time.

Should the Community Citizen leave the community for any reason, they will be refunded the amount that they have paid, effectively making the cost of their housing, nothing.

Community Citizens are required to pay their bond prior to becoming a Community Citizen and as a condition of becoming a Community Citizen.

To continue to sustain community services, repairs and maintenance, each Adult Community Citizen must contribute a payment each week. For the 2023 - 2024 Financial year, this amount is $65.00 per person per week. Children and young adults between the ages of 2 and 16 are $35.00 per week. So a family of 5 Adults, and 2 Children aged between 5 and 16 would pay $200.00 per week.

There are other costs associated with living in the community, you can learn more about those costs here.

The Kirra objective is to rethink the way we live as individuals, together, in communities and cities.

We aim to have at least 6 Kirra property locations in Australia, which allows the diversity required to ensure that we capture all the necessary regional data to demonstrate that our preferred way of living can be replicated with minimal cost and maximum ecological benefit, in a scientific and compelling way. We don't anticipate changing the world, but we can change the world for a small group of people. To this end, we are also seeking to establish a seaside property with a view to oceanographic research and studies.

Along the way, as part of our journey, we want to share the research and learning, foster closer ties and relationships with other like-minded communities, groups and individuals, and demonstrate what can be done, how it can be done, and what difference it will really make along the way or in the end.

We are Science Based - not religious or a cult. We support and foster conversation about various religious points of view without judgement or criticism. 

We also acknowledge that mental health is a thing that needs to be nurtured. To that end - we are about the Spiritual, Mental and Physical well-being of our community citizens.

The simple answer is Yes!

The more complex answer is that you would need to first visit the community location that you were anticipating joining, meet with the community citizens, ensure that you wanted to join, and that the community wanted you to join. From there you would need to undergo a trial living period usually around 6-months. At the end of this period, if you still wanted to join the community, and the community is happy for you to join, you would become a Community Citizen.

Participation is a very broad term. It depends on what we as a community can give to you in return.

There are many forms of participation, from simply offering us moral support to becoming a full-time community citizen. The choices are yours.

Our participation model is different, we encourage all forms of participation from helping out, to financial donations, or purchasing from our inventory of ideas, inventions or e-Books.

You can learn more about helping us to build our ecovillage or becoming a Friend of Kirra or a Supporter of Kirra.

We don't ask for charity in any form. With any donation, we will try to offer you something as a gratuity for your gift or service, help or support.

No - We are not a cult!

We are of the opinion that if you ask this question, it doesn't matter what we say, your head is at a certain place. Continuing your thinking, if we said No, you would expect any cult to answer that question in that way, with a "No" answer. After all of that, we're not sure what answer would be acceptable to assure you that we are not a cult? So, we have prepared the following detailed items for your consideration.

In summary: 

• We try to keep virgin sacrifices to the absolute minimum. They are in short supply.

• We don't kill any of our animals unless the voices in our heads insist, we do so. Those same voices may also prescribe a method of offering and dispatch.

• Naked rituals are only held on a Sunday after the first full moon after a solstice and participation is mandatory. (Sound like Easter?)

• Our leadership only has the ultimate say in everything we do and think as individuals, because we want that and follow our leaders with an undying devotion.  

• We only suppress skepticism about cults when those topics are raised. We also don't believe anything that a politician says, ever!  

• We only delegitimize former members once they have left.

• We only promise a better life and new start if you are thinking of not joining.

• Our rights of passage are very simple, and can be completed by just about anybody, which ensures the greatest conversion rate.

• Our persecution paranoia is validated only by the fact that everyone is out to get us all the time!

• We don't want you to leave, because we may need to hate you, gaslight, apply peer group pressure. And frankly we can't be bothered, so just stay and make it easy on yourself.

We hope that these facts are enough to convince you a) to join, b) that we are not a cult!

In this context we consider community at a number of levels.

• Intra-Citizens: The local Kirra Community - Local Community Citizens within any Kirra Ecovillage Community Property.

• Inter-Citizens: The greater Kirra Community - Community Citizens from another Kirra property yet still within the Kirra Ecovillage Community Association. These include Friends of Kirra.

• Extra-Citizens - These are people who are not physically a part of any Kirra Community but interact with community citizens as guests at a community location, as friends, or with any other label. These may also be the people in the closest town to a Kirra Ecovillage location.

We contribute to all levels of community in a variety of ways. We support local country clubs and charities with donations, volunteering our time and resources, support with works and building. We support local business and industry where we can ensure that our Extra-Citizens prosper. We also support disadvantaged people regardless of citizenship, as do we support our indigenous and first nations peoples.

Importantly, our community model is designed to support the needs of people, animals and plants, our Biotope and habitat. All the things in our immediate community space. Therefore, we promote and foster a process called "Social Prescribing - Creating meaningful Social Interactions for good Mental Health" This allows each individual to seek support for their own journey from the community as an entity, allowing the community to serve the needs of the individual, rather than the individual serving the community.

This is a very broad question. Sufficed to say, no, it is NOT FREE! Then again, life regardless of how you live it can't be done for free.

Members are required to pay a bond for a home to be built for them. This amount is returned if the member dies or permanently leaves the community. However, the amount is still required prior to becoming a member.

Members can purchase meals or provide an amount of labor towards the community to earn these meals. Or they can provide their own ingredients and prepare their own meals.

Members can generate their own power using Solar panels and batteries etc. and capture rainwater on their plots. Even this has ongoing costs such as maintenance costs, new filters, replacement of infrastructure over time. Regardless, they may also choose to consume Kirra generated electricity or purified water, which is charged on a consumption basis. The difference here is that Kirra produces more power and water than an individual can generate or capture and there are no upfront costs to consume these resources. Again, as community assets these require maintenance that is paid for by the community, and as such, its members.

Internet provision costs the community, so that cost is also split amongst the community members.

Basically, if the community as a whole is paying for somethings and as a community member you are consuming that thing, then naturally it needs to be paid for. It becomes semantic if you are paying as a community member or the community is paying, because it's the same thing, you are the community.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel though! If community events can successfully generate enough funding to maintain the community, then the amount of money that each community member pays is reduced. Taking that one step further, naturally if the community generates more money from its efforts than is required by the community, that surplus is paid to the community members. In this instance, the community would go from free to paying you. Even Better!