The tea tree has multiple uses as a bush food, medicine, shelter and raw material. The crushed leaves can used as a poultice for wounds, as antiseptic antifungal preparation, the blossoms dunked in hot water as a herbal tea, the leaves as a headache remedy, the paperbark for wrapping and cooking food in, and as a shaped bowl for carrying water, a coolamon for carrying items, the string from the inner bark has multiple uses, the hardwood timber for spear, boomerang and clapsticks etc. and also as timber for shelter.