Australia
Gender Inequality
Australia
In Australia, June Oscar, the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, guides Wiyi Yani U Thangani (“Women’s Voices”), uniting perspectives of more than 900 First Nations women. Within this effort, Visual Dreaming brings young women into the conversation. We follow five First Nations girls from Wagga Wagga to Melbourne to join the delegation at Women Deliver. In this global advocacy space, they learn leadership is not about individual recognition—their power lies in speaking together, grounded in Country, community, and sisterhood. Leadership here rises not from a single voice, but from many speaking as one.
"We are elevating the voices of First Nations women and girls to the spaces of decision-making, because what we know matters, and informs meaningful and effective policy and legislation. Our knowledge matters and helps to ensure the health and wellbeing of our children, families, and communities. Together we can overcome discrimination and achieve equality to build a stronger, fairer and more inclusive nation. It is time for First Nations gender justice and equality."
-June Oscar AO, Former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
From the Wiyi Yani U Thangani website: “Our vision is for First Nations gender justice and equality in Australia. Led by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar AO, Wiyi Yani U Thangani elevates the voices of First Nations women and girls, knowing that they hold the solutions to drive transformative change.
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 realized. We need First Nations gender justice and equality.”
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