09/07/2026
Happy NAIDOC Week 🖤💛❤️ 💚🤍💙 This year's theme is 50 Years of Deadly.
We encourage you take a moment to reflect on the past five decades of the First Nations peoples who have shaped this movement and those who will continue to lead the change, as the work doesn’t stop here. We stand in solidarity with all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, children, families and communities for the next 50 years and beyond.
Our work in family violence exists within the broader context of colonisation. As a multicultural organisation, we acknowledge that many of us came to this land seeking safety and opportunity. Yet we recognise that First Nations peoples still do not experience the safety, justice and equality that others came here to find.
In saying that, we'd like to share our Acknowledgement of Country to show our respect to the true custodians of the land. This was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Read through our slides, pause and reflect, and think about how you would write your own acknowledgement.
And for further reading, we invite you to read Yoorrook: Truth Be Told, the Yoorrook Justice Commission's Final Report to learn about the history of Victoria since the start of colonisation, from the perspective of the First Peoples:https://cdn.craft.cloud/06ad3276-b3d9-4912-bcbb-37795aade9a8/assets/documents/Yoorrook_Official-Public-Record_Accessible.pdf
