First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria

REMINDER: Pre-order our NAIDOC Week tee today 🖤💛❤️ If you want this deadly tee ready for all your NAIDOC activities make sure you get in quick! This year's tee is designed by the incredibly talented Garrwa artist Chloe Wegener. Order now at: https://lnkd.in/gWhJzw5W

Calling all young mob artists 🎨 here's your chance to win $1,000! The Youth Voice is an initiative that brings young mob together and empowers them to get involved in the journey to Treaty. Our Youth Voice is about teaching, listening and talking Treaty, and we want young mob to create a piece of artwork to help promote it. Entries close Sunday 9 June. For more info and Terms and Conditions head to: https://lnkd.in/gbCpsc8q

The Yoorrook Justice Commission hearings in Melbourne heard that Victoria's First Peoples had received virtually no benefit from the $247 billion worth of gold mined since 1851. But that could all change, with agreement making like this in action👏🏾 Djaara Traditional Owners and Canadian company Agnico Eagle Mines have signed an agreement: "bakaru wayaparrangu", which means "in the middle we all meet".

Everyone is welcome on the shared journey to Treaty 🖤💛❤️ Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.

Look out, our NAIDOC tee winner is here. This deadly design by Garrwa artist Chloe Wegener is now available for pre-order. Chloe said about the design: "The fire of our passion remains ignited from our ancestors spirits, depicted in this image. Their knowledge, pride and fight has laid the foundations for the lives we live today. We carry on supporting each other, working for mob, due to this fire deep within us." Pre-order yours now at: https://lnkd.in/gWhJzw5W

Happy Mother's Day to all the deadly mums, aunties and caregivers. From every generation to the next our strength and wisdom has been held, protected and shared by them since time immemorial. Their staunch leadership, immense resilience and resistance is something we have all benefited from. Thank you to all our matriarchs, today and everyday 🖤💛❤️

Waanyi author Alexis Wright's 'Praiseworthy' has won the 2024 Stella Prize 📖🎉 She becomes the first person to win the award twice, after also winning it in 2018 for 'Tracker'. It solidifies Wright's position as one of the most accomplished Australian writers. On writing Praiseworthy, Wright said she sought "to find a better way of writing fiction, in a way that suited a country like this with the oldest living culture in the world". Huge congratulations!

Introducing our incoming CEO, proud Gunditjmara man Damein Bell. Damein Bell brings thirty years of experience across community development, education, native title, cultural heritage and Indigenous nation building. Damein will start in June ahead of the statewide Treaty negotiations. Join us in welcoming him! You can read more at: https://lnkd.in/erUR77hW

This week we saw Treaty Day Out favourites, Electric Fields take our rich culture and share it with the rest of the world - a proud and historic moment 🖤💛❤️ Have a listen to them talking about making history right here in Victoria, when we spoke to them backstage at Treaty Day Out Ballarat earlier this year.

The 2024 NAIDOC poster is here 🔥 Samuawgadhalgal artist Deb Belyea is the winner of the NAIDOC Week Poster Competition with her work ‘Urapun Muy’. Belyea said "The artwork shows ancestors hands placing an ember into a burning fire. This ember, and the fire, represents the sharing of cultural knowledge from one generation to the next. Culture is the fire that burns within all of us. It is essential to us when we talk about our people, identity, and spirituality."