Macropod Dynamics is a privately held Australian company founded in 2019. We design, integrate and sustain the MK-VII platform across nine sovereign sites, under a published Marsupial Welfare Charter, an endorsed Reconciliation Action Plan, and the corporate-governance standards expected of a Defence sector prime.
Macropod Dynamics operates from a sovereign Australian footprint comprising the Canberra headquarters, the Eveleigh integration facility, resident detachments at Defence training and trial areas, a partnered laboratory at the ANU, and a sustainment cell co-located with 3rd Brigade in Townsville. All design, manufacture and integration is performed onshore.
The MK-VII platform is delivered through a sovereign Australian supply chain. Australian Industry Capability content is contractually committed under Land 174 Phase 2 and reported quarterly to the Capability Acquisition & Sustainment Group.
No live macropod has been harmed in the development, testing or commissioning of any Macropod Dynamics platform. We hold ourselves to the highest standard of biofidelic engineering, and to the continent whose inhabitants we have studied.
Each MK-VII platform is fully recoverable and remotely deactivatable across the entirety of its operating tenure. The Group affirms — having reflected closely on the Commonwealth's nineteenth- and twentieth-century record in applied biological intervention — that no Macropod Dynamics platform is, has been, or will be reproductively viable; and that none has been or will be released into the Australian environment for the purpose of biological control.
No operator is required to use the MK-VII platform without prior trauma-informed instruction, ongoing access to clinical psychological support before, during and after deployment, and an unconditional right to step away from any engagement at any point. The Group accepts that the operation of a kinetic platform leaves marks on the person who operates it, and we do not pretend otherwise. Aftercare is provided for the lifetime of the operator and is extended, on request, to the operator's immediate family.Geoffrey Halworth, Group Chief Executive · Adopted in Board Resolution MD-22-014, on advice of the Biological Reversibility Committee and the Operator Welfare Committee
The Group acknowledges the Frontier Wars. A century and a half of armed and unarmed violence between settler society and First Nations peoples — variously called dispersal, pacification, punitive expedition, or by names invented to obscure what occurred — produced casualties that have been counted only partially and that have not been formally acknowledged in many of the places where they happened.
The Group acknowledges the Frontier Wars by their proper name and acknowledges that the country in which it operates carries those casualties. The Group supports the calls of First Nations communities for a national truth-telling process and the formal acknowledgement of the Frontier Wars by the institutions of the Australian state, including the Australian Defence Force and its industry partners.
Macropod Dynamics maintains formal commitments under the Marsupial Welfare Charter, our published Reconciliation Action Plan, the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth), and a long-running STEM-outreach programme co-administered with the Australian National University. Each is reported on annually.