We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Guided by Country and led by Indigenous knowledge – Firesticks works to empower communities across the continent and abroad to care for land, culture and futures.
The Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 gives First Nations people freehold title to their land.
Land back is about changing systems that harm Country. It means a reckoning with the unjust ways land was stolen.
Neil Morris of DRMNGNOW yarns with us about what land back means to him and what a land back future could look like.
Architecture, agriculture, trade, astronomy and physics were practised in Australia long before colonisation.
Systems thinking is to view the natural environment, human relationships and non-human relationships with a systems lens.
Water sovereignty is about First Nations people having control over waters they traditionally and rightfully own.
When you lose your language, a whole way of being, a whole cultural universe is lost forever.
Connection, not colour, is at the heart of First Nations identities.
Using traditional place names is truth-telling in action. It's a step towards acknowledging First Nations sovereignty.
First Nations fashion is taking a moment. A huge moment. And rightly so.
Join us for our Changing Systems Through Storytelling: Be The Change webinar to hear from First Nations storytellers and learn practical ways to make change with Common Ground.