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.
To deepen our understanding of how storytelling shifts structures, narratives and power, Common Ground established the Systems Change Collective in early 2026 and created the Systems Change Collective: Toolkit for Centering First Nations Storytelling.
There are currently two key mechanisms by which First Nations people can reclaim land in the western legal system: land rights and native title.
The historic 1967 referendum is viewed by most to be a significant landmark in the history of race relations in Australia. It also remains a misunderstood moment in history.
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.
Celestial Emu is a short film project with Gamilaraay astrophysicist Karlie Noon and Gomeroi and Tongan dancer Daniel Mateo.