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NAIDOC Week NAIDOC South Australia is a time to celebrate the histories, cultures achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.   It gives First Nations people and non-Indigenous people the opportunity to celebrate and connect with community and Country. And it’s a chance for everyone, not just First Nations people, to celebrate all aspects of First Nations histories and cultures. #NAIDOC #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2024

🖤 💛 ❤️ NAIDOC WEEK 2024 🖤 💙 💚 🤍 This year's theme, "Keep the Fire Burning - Blak, Loud & Proud", is a powerful call to action to celebrate and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures with pride and enthusiasm. Our team will be out and about in their local communities celebrating NAIDOC Week and we encourage you to join in the festivities. Here are a few ways you can get involved and show your support: 🔥 Attend Local Events: Participate in community events, workshops, and celebrations happening throughout the week. It's a great opportunity to learn, connect, and immerse yourself in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. 🔥 Support Indigenous Businesses: Choose to support local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses. From arts and crafts to food and services, there are countless ways to contribute to the economic empowerment of Indigenous communities. 🔥 Educate Yourself: Take the time to learn about the history, traditions, and contemporary issues faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Resources like books, documentaries, and online courses can provide valuable insights. 🔥 Engage in Conversations: Start meaningful conversations with friends, family, and colleagues about the significance of NAIDOC Week. Sharing knowledge and experiences can foster understanding and respect. Let's come together to honour and celebrate the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Every action counts towards building a more inclusive and respectful Australia. If you're not sure what's on in your local community, check out the official NAIDOC Week events page and enter your postcode to see what's on near you! 👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/dexeVKVM #NAIDOC2024 #KeepTheFireBurning #BlakLoudProud #SupportIndigenousBusinesses #CulturalAwareness #CommunityEngagement #CelebrateDiversity #TogetherWeAreStronger

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When your business participates in NAIDOC events, you can feel the incredible spiritual connection First Nation peoples' have with each other. The laughter and conversations you hear in the distance make you smile. Being around mob is like attending a big annual family gathering, where you bump into people you haven't seen for years. (even if it's only been a day or two) The music, dances, and celebrations are experiences that are hard to explain to non-First Nation people, but I think you know what I'm referring to. NAIDOC Week can sometimes prompt businesses to evaluate their engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities. This reflection often reveals a different perspective than what the media portrays and fosters a desire for more of the amazing feeling that comes from being around mob. Businesses start to question: Are we meeting our goals and successfully implementing our Reconciliation Plan? Are we enhancing our Indigenous supply chain? Are we making purposeful and meaningful impacts? Can we do better? If you want to enhance your business’s cultural knowledge, connect more effectively with Indigenous Communities, and expand your Indigenous supply chain, there's only one way to do this. Put your thoughts into action! 'Keep the Fire Burning, Blak, Loud and Proud' by continuing to strengthen relationships and create real opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' and businesses to thrive, succeed, and have more celebrations!! Happy NAIDOC everyone! #NAIDOC #FirstNation #Celebrations #EveryoneInvited

Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2024: A Story of Healing through Art This NAIDOC Week, we celebrate the amazing journey of Kylie and David Hill and their family. Years ago, they started a business that uses art to connect with communities across Australia having collaborated with communities and organisations in Queensland, NSW, and Victoria. For them, art is not just creative—it's a way to heal and share their culture. Kylie shares First Nations tribes used art to share important messages. They didn’t write letters and used symbols and drawings to tell stories. Whether it was about a birth, a hunt, or a special event, these drawings were their way of communicating. Today, Kylie, David and their family keep this tradition alive through their business, sharing their heritage with everyone. At Bunzl, we are proud to have Kylie’s family create the artwork for our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. This partnership is about more than just art—it's about building strong relationships and working together as one. NAIDOC Week isn’t just one week of the year. It is important we celebrate the culture, stories, and connections that we honour every single day of First Nations peoples and communities. #NAIDOC2024 #ArtAndHealing #Reconciliation #Bunzl #FirstNations #CulturalStories #ReconcilationActionPlan

The Kleinfelder team took time to acknowledge NAIDOC week and the importance of celebrating the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The team participated in events to learn more about First Nations culture, investigated and presented ways to promote and foster increased Indigenous participation in our industry, and incorporated conscious supply changes to our business. All with the aim of learning how to be the best ally we can be.   This NAIDOC week we at Kleinfelder continue to make conscious focused changes and challenge ourselves to learn and do more; for we believe even today’s smaller deliberate changes can become the instinctive strides forward of tomorrow. #NAIDOC2024

Another successful NAIDOC week has come to end, this year’s theme centred around the resilience of First Nations people, emphasising on our enduring connection to the land, culture, and community. These words "Keep the Fire Burning, Blak, Loud & Proud” highlight the importance of cultural pride, resilience, and community solidarity. The importance of ongoing support and commitment to First Nations people, rather than just acknowledging them for a specific period like one week out of the year, encouraging consistent support and initiatives with First Nations consultation that ignite positive change are crucial. It's about maintaining authentic efforts and not just temporary gestures.

🎯🎯🎯 I once heard a powerful voice in a YouTube video that shared a prompt that I think is very applicable to the work we do and spaces we hold in Higher Education… “What happens if we thought more intentionally that our businesses and college campuses occupy lands that once belonged to Indigenous Peoples that are still here.” The video is shared below. I encourage all to make the space to sit with the voices and narratives being shared in it: https://lnkd.in/eNBrqqk3 Notice she said, “that are still here.” I can’t help but wonder what it is like for those Indigenous Peoples to see so many different people benefiting from lands that no longer belong to them and for some of them that have no access to because of various societal and political measures. I think about a doctoral classmate that helped me to understand the rotten-with-bias bureaucratic processes such as which Indigenous Peoples are federally recognized and those that are not. What happens to their culture and history? Who chose the governing bodies to determine which histories and truths would be elevated and others to be erased? I’ve been in various day to day and professional development spaces discussing how to properly acknowledge Indigenous Peoples and their narratives, history as land caretakers and other contributions. It’s equally important to make space to hold, face, and work to rehabilitate the harms done over time. Even though I am not personally responsible for those harms, I choose to be conscious and responsible to not ignore how my role and privileged positionality as a University professional have resulted in my access and benefit of collegiate operations conducted because of harm and on stolen lands. I encourage all to commit to the introspective work needed to consider challenging ourselves to shift advocacy and agency beyond the comfort to simply honor Indigenous peoples and narratives with voiced land and labor acknowledgments recited during various spaces of training, education, or narrative sharing. In some spaces, the acknowledgment has seemed as performative allyship and an empty, trending gesture not enacted to invoke change or raised conscious but as a self-serving pat on our own backs. Each day, it’s important for us to consider how to operationalize our respective platforms, voices, and positionality to be firm and organic advocates. How does our advocacy and agency shift to be more conscious and action oriented? How do we diligently seek out non-self-serving partnership and collaborative resolution finding and rehabilitation with Indigenous Peoples on campuses and in the nearby communities? What common day practices represent barriers we uphold and perpetuate that explicitly and implicitly threaten the existence, access, and legacy of Indigenous Peoples? These reflectively questions are a short list of a longer list… questions that DESERVE ongoing answers and invested resources and increased attention.

Welcome to the Furneaux Collective! The #Furneaux #Collective (named for the Furneaux Group of Islands of which Flinders Island is the largest Island) is the next step in the #FlindersIsland #Regenerative Tourism Living Lab journey. We can't be more excited! The Furneaux Collective is a new community-led, place-based governance approach that works for the Island, its communities, and environments. It's what happens when communities are given the support they need to identify and address the challenges they face. It's what happens when lived experience, local knowledge, and good generative conversations evolve into action. It's what happens when change happens with and through communities. 💚 A PLATFORM FOR ALL VOICES We are your go-to place for networking, community dialogue, and capacity-building. We also serve as a liaison for government agencies seeking to understand our community's interests and concerns. 💚 A LEGAL FRAMEWORK & FINANCIAL SUPPORT We have laid down the legal foundations to become an entity that can apply for and manage grants effectively, ensuring the future viability of our community projects. 💚 ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE We're not just first movers; we're consistent movers. We continue to build on the regeneration started by the Islander Way project, pushing forward with initiatives that renew both the environment and our community. 💚 INCLUSIVE PROSPERITY From supporting Aboriginal Truth-telling to offering economic opportunities, we are committed to social equity. 💚 DIGITAL INTERFACE We understand the need for a cohesive digital presence. Our website (and future app) will serve as a hub for both visitors and community members. 💚 MEASURABLE IMPACT We'll help community groups and businesses quantify their social license, emphasising the value brought by the visitor economy to both community and nature. We invite everyone to be part of our transformative journey. Together, let's build a future that not only sustains but regenerates — economically, socially, and environmentally. If that is not enough, this week #FlindersCouncil expressed its strongest support for this ground-breaking step. "The recent activation of the Furneaux Collective is a critical step in the evolution of the Islander Way Framework. Over the past two years, the Islander Way project has set a course for transformative change on Flinders Island, with The Furneaux Collective emerging as a key player in the journey. It exemplifies a community-driven and community-led approach, focusing on building long-term capacity and resilience for our island communities." (Mayor Rachel Summers, Flinders Council). From small things, big things grow! Can't wait to see what happens next! https://lnkd.in/g9j9mx_E Sammi Gowthorp Paul Seaman Tracey Mallett Cameron McLennan Jessica Robbins Todd Babiak Dr Tony McCall James McKee Natalie Kingston Sarah Lebski #RegenerativeTourism #LivingLab #Tasmania #DestinationManagement #VisitorEconomy #Local2030 #Islands

Grateful and honored to have been part of the pass it on activity Organised by repair Xhuma Africa. It was truly an amazing experience that highlighted the importance of "FOSTERING YOUTH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT THROUGH SKILL DEVELOPMENT. Concepts discussed here where entrepreneurialship,Identifying the real you. Self sabotage. Building yourself. Procrastination Fostering Youth Civic Engagement Through Skill Development” is a phrase that refers to the process of developing skills in young people that enable them to participate in civic activities. Civic engagement is the active participation of citizens in the public life of their communities and society at large. It includes activities such as voting, volunteering, and community service. Skill development, . Skill development, on the other hand, refers to the acquisition of knowledge, abilities, and competencies that enable individuals to perform specific tasks @xhuma Africa