“We’re a self-determined community-controlled Aboriginal organisation delivering interpreting services across the state,” explains Deanne Lightfoot, the CEO of Aboriginal Interpreting Western Australia. “These services are incredibly important in child protection matters – to government and community – to understand and be understood by each other.   “Aboriginal languages are strong throughout our state, [non-Indigenous] […]

Gemma Evans, a young Yorta Yorta woman, is studying her Diploma of Youth Work. She’s also working with the council running the Koori Youth Group and working as an Aboriginal Mentor to young women through a Geelong-based youth organisation. “I work with a lot of young women who are out-of-home, [who are] in the justice […]

Cormach Evans is a proud Yorta Yorta man and the founder and creator of Strong Brother, Strong Sister, an Aboriginal youth mentoring organisation, which was created on Wadawurrung Country in Geelong. Founded in May 2017, Strong Brother, Strong Sister is creating culturally appropriate safe spaces for Aboriginal young people to access and thrive within, so that they […]

After the Apology is a powerful new feature documentary by Larissa Behrendt which follows four Aboriginal grandmothers who each face their own battle to challenge government policies to bring their grandkids home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb the skyrocketing rates of child removal. Kicking off our National Week of Action on 14 […]