Community Guide: Securing our Rights, Securing our Future

Produced at Australian Human Rights Commission
2020

A condensed and accessible guide to the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Report

This community guide sets out the major findings and cross-cutting themes that are explored in detail in the Wiyi Yani U Thangani report. It also presents the ‘Way Forward’—a comprehensive plan for structural reform. It includes principles, overarching recommendations, and pathways forward which correspond with the four thematic areas of the report.

In this community guide are voices full of hope and possibility. Listen to them. Read them. First Nations peoples and non-Indigenous people working together can use this guide as a tool to support our women and girls as agents of change and to advocate for the enabling conditions needed for all Australian society to thrive.

Institute Updates

Spending time with our Ways of Working

Come on the Journey to designing a First Nations gender justice workplace with us! As an Institute, we strive to embody First Nations gender justice principles in our workplace culture, employment conditions, policies and practices. As we develop this approach, we hope to be able to support other individuals, groups and organisations to become safe, non-discriminatory, inclusive, creative and meaningful working environments which enhance wellbeing and drive change. The way in which we are constructing this model at the Institute is by embedding into our work process, and embodying in our actions, our Ways of Working, Measurement, Evaluation and Learning approach and systems change practices.

The Ways of Working outlined in our Change Agenda are more than principles—they are living practices that guide how we foster connection, respect, and transformative action. These practices are grounded in the ancestral knowledge, cultural protocols, and lived experiences of First Nations women, girls, and gender-diverse peoples.

Impact Opportunties

We are highlighting opportunities across Australia for First Nations women, girls and gender-diverse mob to engage a variety of opportunities to amplify their voices. If you know of more opportunities available, please share them with us so we can highlight them in our next newsletter. You can also find opportunities posts on our Instagram and LinkedIn.

Please note: These opportunities are not affiliated with the Institute. We are highlighting them in an independent capacity.