For the 2018 Family Matters National Week of Action, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people tell us why their family matters. We’re excited to share one of their stories with you. Told by a young Aboriginal boy from the Yuggera tribe: My family matters to me because they are loyal, caring, loving people. Family is […]

Donna Nelson is a proud Njaki Njaki woman and Chair of the Family Matters working group in Western Australia. She has nearly 14 years of experience working in child protection and almost 25 years of experience working with Aboriginal young people at risk. In leading the WA Family Matters working group she continues to advocate […]

“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] people […]

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 […]