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- IGD Newsletter – 1st Edition
- Exceptional Governance: Stories of Success from the 2018 Indigenous Governance Awards
- Summary – Webinar: International Resilience through COVID
- Summary – Webinar: Governing through Crisis
- OUR PEOPLE, OUR WAY: STORIES OF INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE SUCCESS
- International Indigenous Governance Conference
- To be heard and for the words to have actions: Traditional Owner voices report.
- Nation Building and Development
- Indigenous Community Governance Project
- Financial Services Council Standard 22 – Cultural Capability in Native Title Services
- AIGI and AIATSIS Indigenous Governance Development Forum
- Strong Governance Supporting Organisational Success: Sharing Stories from the 2016 Indigenous Governance Awards
- Voices of Our Success: Sharing the Stories and Analysis from the 2014 Indigenous Governance Awards
- Women in Governance
- Governing the Organisation
- AIGI Submission: Closing The Gap Refresh 2018
- Common Roots, Common Futures: Indigenous Pathways to Self-Determination
- Indigenous Community Governance Project
- Understanding Governance
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty Communique
- Culture and Governance
- Submission for the Native Title Unit in relation to the Native Title Exposure Draft
- Training to empower VACCA’s governing body
- How VACCA reports back to community
- Embedding culture at VACCA
- Young people guiding The Marruk Project
- The Marruk Project on the advantages of non-incorporation
- The Marruk Project on community governance
- Ngnowar Aerwah building skills in a growing organisation
- Ngnowar Aerwah Board and CEO working together
- Ngnowar Aerwah on representation and accountability
- Waltja women in governance
- The MWG working together for the whole community
- How the MWG came together
- IUIH on the power of data to create accountability
- IUIH’s vision for the future
- IUIH on the challenges of shared governance
- How the IUIH formed to address common goals
- What community-controlled governance means at IUIH
- The significance of effective governance for IUIH
- How common goals united Girringun
- Girringun CEO and Board’s close relationship
- The cultural foundations of Girringun’s governance
- Girringun’s culturally-assured process
- ORIC Top 500 Report 2014-15
- Social Justice Commissioner launches 2014 Social Justice and Native Title Report
- Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2014 Report
- Indigenous Governance Development Forum: Mapping Current and Future Research and Resource Needs
- The Closing the Gap Clearinghouse Issues paper no. 5 released in October 2013
- ORIC release the top 500 report 2011-12
- Native Nations Institute launch new distance-learning course
- New local governance model in NSW
- Have your say on Aboriginal Regional Authorities in South Australia
- Strong Aboriginal Governance Summit, Tennant Creek NT
- NPY Women’s Council – strong culture, strong women, strong communities
- NPY Women’s Council – strong culture, strong women, strong communities
- What can we do? Capacity development for leaders
- Check-up: Effective capacity building practices for leaders
- Check up: Roles of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander governing body
- Check-up: Governing body decision making processes
- Managing controversy or disputes in meetings
- Managing issue-based conflict
- The cycle of sustained governance development
- NPY Women’s Council: Building your cultural guiding principles into your rulebook
- Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly
- Social Justice Commissioner releases the 2012 Social Justice and Native Title Reports
- Act of Recognition passes
- Prime Minister tables the Closing the Gap Report 2013
- NPY Women’s Council: Building your cultural guiding principles into your rulebook
- Thamarrurr Regional Council’s vision for its governance, Wadeye, NT.
- The Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, Strategic Plan 2012–14
- Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly
- Governance two ways: Kurduju Committee, Ali Curung
- The Governance Truck
- Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
- Galambila Aboriginal Health Service
- ASHBURTON ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
- Association of Northern Kimberly and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists
- CUNNAMULLA ABORIGINAL CORPORATION FOR HEALTH
- KARI Aboriginal Resources Inc.
- Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation
- Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation
- SCOTDESCO ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
- Yappera Children’s Services
- KIMBERLEY ABORIGINAL LAW AND CULTURE CENTRE
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Queensland
- Bendigo Indigenous Homework Centre (BIHC)
- Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation
- Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi
- Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
- Wunan Foundation
- Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi
- Galambila Aboriginal Health Service
- Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation
- Association of Northern Kimberly and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists
- Cunnamulla Aboriginal Corporation for Health
- KARI Aboriginal Resources Inc.
- Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation
- Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation
- Scotdesco Aboriginal Corporation
- Yappera Children’s Services
- Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre
- The Yiriman Project
- Bendigo Indigenous Homework Centre (BIHC)
- MAARI MA HEALTH ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Queensland
- WALPIRI YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
- Walpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation
- Issues that benefit from making culturally legitimate rules
- Check-up: Effective legitimate governance
- Expanding local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment
- Sharing decision making across the organisation
- What can we do? Building a strong internal culture in our organisation
- Our staff
- Making and reviewing policies
- A performance review for an organisation’s top manager
- A partnership of separate powers—the governing body and top manager
- Two-way governance at the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation
- The partnership between Martumilli Artists and the Shire of East Pilbara
- Running Annual General Meetings – What WYDAC do
- Getting long lasting results from dispute resolution
- Dealing with conflict between staff and management
- Dealing with conflict between the top manager and governing body
- Building capacity of governing bodies to deal with conflict and misconduct
- NPY Women’s Council’s guiding principles
- Check-up: Our dispute resolution processes
- Organisational hotspots for conflict and complaints
- Handling disputes and complaints from members
- Governance hotspots for conflict and complaints
- Skills needed for dispute resolution
- Fifteen principles for effective dispute and complaint resolution
- Snapshot: Some differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous processes for the resolution of disputes and wrongdoing
- Snapshot: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mechanisms for settling disputes
- Template: List of contents for a governance reference manual
- Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly, Charter of Governance
- Getting started on a governance development plan
- What can we do? Future planning
- What can we do? The basic steps in strategic planning
- Western Desert Dialysis’s strategic planning
- A framework for understanding the barriers to Indigenous financial capability
- An informed decision is one that is
- WYDAC’s board and decision making
- The Anindilyakwa Land Council Code of Conduct
- ALPA empowerment of Yolngu communities
- NPY Women’s Council’s bush meetings
- Improving accountability
- Building the Murdi Paaki governance structure
- Ten steps for the foundations of strong governance
- Karen Diver: What I wish I knew before I took office
- Check-up: When is there a conflict of interest?
- How to manage problems with your networks
- How networks and networking can improve governance
- NPY Women’s Council: How NPY governance works
- Governing the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation
- Snapshot: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander networked governance at work
- Building your governance capability for development
- The ladder of self-governance for nation rebuilding: where are you?
- Snapshot: Different approaches to governance and development
- What does nation building mean to us?
- How the Yiriman project started
- MG Corporation on working two ways
- Identiying your community assets and strengths?
- The Governance Truck
- How the Yiriman Project works with young women
- The guiding principles of the NPY Women’s Council
- Weak rules and strong rules – What happens to your governance?
- Thamarrurr Regional Council’s vision for its governance, Wadeye, NT.
- The rules of governance can be either formal or informal
- Check up – Kinds of Conflict of Interest
- Case study – NPY Women’s Council’s governance principles
- Murdi Paaki young leaders program
- The Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre
- Indigenous leadership at the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre
- NPY Women’s Council on getting started
- Image – governance training by Eunice Porter
- Your governance culture and environment
- Governance two ways—Kurduju Committee, Ali Curung, Northern Territory
- Location of ORIC registered corporations by region at 30 June 2012
- Ngurra-kurlu (the way yapa life is governed)
- Definition – What is governance?
- Martumili Artists on how their un-incorporated organisation works
- Murdi Paaki ‘how our governance model emerged’
- Sam Jeffries on succession planning
- Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly and self-determination
- How MG Corporation’s governance works
- Succession planning at NPY Women’s Council
- Fitting culture into your organisation’s structure
- MG Corporation’s road to financial independence
- Western Desert Diaylsis on putting cultural values at the heart of what you do
- Geraldine Atkinson of SNAICC on being a board director
- How the Yiriman project got started
- Succession planning with young people
- How Western Desert Dialysis started?
- The Yiriman project’s cultural governance model
- NPY Women’s Council’s governance model
- Meetings in remote areas
- Bringing cultural values into your organisation and constitution
- Independent directors
- Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly’s Charter of Governance
- Involving young people
- Governance Stories
- Useful Links
- Glossary
- Lodging Reports
- Warakurna Artists, WA
- 2006 Indigenous Governance Handbook
- 2008 Indigenous Governance Handbook
- Managing and maintaining relationships with professionals
- What can we do? Managing our stakeholders
- How to balance different interests
- Improving consultation
- Different ways to help in the community
- How to map governance assets
- Template: Our culture scan
- Template: Our governance stakeholder influence
- Template: Monitoring our governance environment
- What can we do? Improving our networking
- What can we do? Solving the dispute as a group
- Managing personality-based conflict
- Skills needed for dispute resolution
- External complaints
- Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
- Dispute Resolution Procedures
- Indigenous dispute resolution
- What can we do? A conflict analysis tool
- Attracting and retaining staff
- The responsibilities and rights of staff members
- Staff Capacity Building
- What staff need
- Check-up: Signs of management problems in your organisation
- Directors—what they do
- Doing the top manager job well
- How do managers ‘manage’?
- The benefits of having governance policies
- Template: A policy
- Our Community Website
- What can we do? Steps to develop effective policies
- Check-up: Our governance policies and rules
- Key Governance Policies
- What do policies do?
- Understanding different types of policy
- ORIC’s Rule Book
- What can we do? Cultural legitimacy in governance rules and policies
- Indigenous Culture
- Enforcing Governance Rules
- Check-up: How do we manage change?
- Template: Governance development and action plan
- Template: SWOT analysis
- Overview of the strategic planning process
- Planning helps your organisation to:
- Template: Sample minutes
- Quorum meetings
- Template: Progress report on actions
- Template: Decision making
- Template: Meeting agenda
- Good meetings
- Check-up: Are your processes accountable?
- How to achieve accountability
- Different kinds of accountability
- The two-way accountability of Indigenous organisations and governing bodies
- What can we do? Good practices for governing bodies
- Good practice for managing money
- What can we do? Strategies for succession planning
- Policies for promoting effective governance in governing bodies
- Important capacities for effective governance
- What can we do? Decision making processes
- Duties of directors and other officers
- Governing body two-way power and authority
- A governing body has to:
- How the governing body relates to its group members, management and staff
- Check-up: Your leadership health
- Check-up: The qualities of effective Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders
- Indigenous leadership
- How to map governance assets
- Template: Mapping your governance history
- Top 10 tips for getting started
- Check-up: An overall governance health check-up
- What can we do? Seven steps to evaluation
- What to evaluate?
- External governance environment
- A vision and a preamble
- Building and maintaining cultural legitimacy
- Indigenous governance principles in Australia
- Embedding cultural values in your governance
- Your governance internal and external environments
- What is culture?
- Acknowledgements
- 9.6 Case Studies
- 9.5 Kick-starting the process of nation rebuilding
- 9.4 Networked governance
- 9.3 Governance for sustained development
- 9.2 Governance for nation rebuilding
- 9.1 What is nation rebuilding?
- 9.0 Governance for nation rebuilding and development
- 8.7 Case Studies
- 8.6 Practical guidelines and approaches
- 8.5 Organisations: dealing with internal disputes and complaints
- 8.4 Your members: Dealing with disputes and complaints
- 8.3 Disputes and complaints about governance
- 8.2 Core principles and skills for dispute and complaint resolution
- 8.1 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous approaches
- 8.0 Disputes and complaints
- 7.5 Case Studies
- 7.4 Staff development and training
- 7.3 Managing staff
- 7.2 The governing body and management
- 7.1 Managing the organisation
- 7.0 Management and staff
- 6.5 Case Studies
- 6.4 Policies for organisations
- 6.3 Running effective meetings
- 6.2 Governance rules and culture
- 6.1 What are governance rules?
- 6.0 Governance rules and policies
- 5.8 Case Studies
- 5.7 Building capacity and confidence for governing bodies
- 5.6 Future planning
- 5.5 Communicating
- 5.4 Governing finances and resources
- 5.3 Decision making by the governing body
- 5.2 Accountability: what is it, to whom and how?
- 5.1 Roles, responsibilities and rights of a governing body
- 5.0 Governing the organisation
- 4.6 Case Studies
- 4.5 Building leadership capacity to govern
- 4.4 Youth leadership and succession planning
- 4.3 Evaluating your leadership
- 4.2 The challenges of leadership
- 4.1 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership
- 4.0 Leadership for governance
- 3.3 Case Studies
- 3.2 Mapping your community for governance
- 3.1 Assessing your Governance
- 3.0 Getting started on building your governance
- 2.3 Case Studies
- 2.2 Two-way Governance
- 2.1 Indigenous governance and culture
- 2.0 Culture and governance
- Who is in an incorporated organisation?
- The top 15 tips for a healthy corporation
- What can we do? Organisational governance
- Snapshot: Legislation websites
- Comparative table of incorporation legislation (ORIC)
- ORIC Rule Book
- What can we do? Mapping community assets for governance
- What are our community assets?
- What can we do? Strengthening community governance
- Snapshot: Different models of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander governance
- What an Indigenous community shares
- The important parts of governance
- What can we do? Encouraging women to be active members
- Snapshot: Similarities and differences between community and corporate governance
- What can we do? Footy and playing the governance game
- Indigenous Community Governance Research Project
- 1.4 Case Studies
- 1.3 Governance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations
- 1.2 Indigenous governance
- 1.1 The important parts of governance
- Toolkit Topics
- 1.0 Understanding governance
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