Premium Content Subscriber only Native foods from custodial Queensland tribes will be used to promote and expand collaborations between commercial operations and Indigenous populations. In a bid to support a demand for native food in the cuisine market, profits from commercial opportunities will go directly back to Indigenous communities. The project, called A Deadly Solution: Towards an Indigenous-led Bushfood Industry, is a $1.5 million collaboration between Indigenous Traditional Owners and Custodians and the University of Queensland. Professor Melissa Fitzgerald, who specialises her research in bush food, said there was a huge market for native food. “It’s growing exponentially. It’s currently worth about $100m and it is growing very quickly,” Professor Fitzgerald said.