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Human Rights and we can support the vision for First Nations Gender Justice and Equality in Australia.
We elevate First Nations women’s voices, knowing that they hold the solutions to drive transformative change.
Led by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar AO, Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) is a multi-year Report and project set out to capture and respond to the rights, needs and aspirations of First Nations women and girls.
It is the first time since the 1986 Women’s Business Report that First Nations women and girls have been heard as a collective.
Informed by over 2,000 First Nations women and girls, Wiyi Yani U Thangani is a once in a generation Report, providing a well overdue gender-lens across all aspects of life, showing that women are doing the backbone work of society.
This resource offers on every page the stories of women and girls—their strengths, wealth of knowledges and culture, and how to overcome entrenched issues and inequalities and create futures we all dream of.
Wiyi Yani U Thangani provides the evidence that the inequalities experienced by First Nations women and girls are perpetuated and entrenched by mainstream systems and structures that have marginalised the voices of women and girls for generations.
First Nations women and girls are clear: we need large-scale structural change to create a world where the unique cultural, social, economic and political rights and interests of First Nations women and girls are realised.
We need First Nations gender justice and equality.
One of the outputs of this work is The Community Guide. It sets out the major findings and cross-cutting themes that are explored in detail in the Report, and the seven overarching recommendations to address cross-cutting systemic issues of marginalisation, trauma and intersectional discrimination, and to fundamentally shift how Australian Governments engage with First Nations women and girls.
Community attitudes towards poverty and inequality in Australia
Presentations and Webinars | Publication Date: 14 December 2023
A seminar on the findings from the ACOSS and UNSW partnership report, presented by Scientia Professor Carla Treloar, Jacqueline Phillips and Mark Chenery for the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre on...
Ending Child Poverty in Australia – BSL Talks
Presentations and Webinars | Publication Date: 27 October 2023
Special Anti-Poverty Week edition of the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) Talks webinars. Focuses on Ending child poverty in...
ABCB Standard for Livable Housing Design (mandatory)
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 24 April 2023
The ABCB has released 2 new publications to support practitioners’ understanding of the new livable housing design provisions in the NCC, and the ABCB Standard for Livable Housing...
The Business of Tomorrow
Guides and Templates Policy/Procedure Sector Initiatives | Publication Date: 2023-10-12
This book offers systems founded on needs rather than debt, and as such alters reality through new housing, trading, and energy systems. The HousingExchange.com.au to be launched by the end of the...
A Guide to Providing Housing Focused Support
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 1 December 2022
Build your knowledge of activities and interventions that help people to gain and sustain a home with this series of practice guides. Each guide breaks down a core component of housing-focused...
Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholders
Toolkits | Publication Date: 13 July 2022
In 2005 the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment released a three part resource on Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholder. In 2015, it...
Tenant Participation (Q Shelter Learning Exchange held June 2022)
Guides and Templates | Publication Date: 24 June 2022
Tenant participation is an important part of the work undertaken by Community Housing Providers, it is a two-way process involving tenants working in partnership with providers to share ideas,...
Domestic and Family Violence Resources
Toolkits | Publication Date: 17 June 2022
As a community, we all have a responsibility to put an end to domestic and family violence. In our role as a peak body, Q Shelter has engaged in work which aims to equip providers of housing and...