The Indigenous Governance Awards share the success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations from around Australia...
Check-list: Principles of Effective Indigenous Governance
This resource provides a checklist of principles for effective governance (pdf, 139kb) Review...
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Factsheet: Your culture
Culture is the collective beliefs, values, rules and customs that inform a group’s way of li...
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Factsheet: Understand Indigenous governance
Governance gives an organisation, community or nation the ways and means to achieve the things...
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Factsheet: Build your governance
Building or rebuilding governance is about selecting a governance model that suits your group...
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Factsheet: Your people
Whether your group is formal or informal, incorporated, or unincorporated, at its core are peo...
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Factsheet: Leadership
Leadership is the art of motivating people towards a common goal or to ‘get things done’ I...
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Factsheet: First Nations women in governance
Women play an important role in strengthening their families and groups Harnessing their skill...
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Factsheet: Systems and plans
Systems and plans are what help your everyday governance be most effective Think about how you...
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Factsheet: Financial management
Effective financial management is a critical foundation for managing your resources wisely It...
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Factsheet: Conflict resolution and peacemaking
Governance is about working together Working together can lead to differences in people’s in...
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NPY Women's Council
NPY Women’s Council is led by women’s law, authority and culture to deliver health, social...
Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly
Self-determination and community control The Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly (MPRA) is compri...
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Thamarrurr Regional Council's vision for its governance, Wadeye, NT.
This symbol shows how we are moving to have strong, representative government The symbol is ab...
Governance two ways: Kurduju Committee, Ali Curung
This painting titled 'Two Ways: Yapa and Kardiya Ways' is reproduced with the kind permission...
The Governance Truck
Participants at Reconciliation Australia’s Sharing Success-Indigenous governance workshop in...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Queensland
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (Qld) Ltd (ATSILS) deliver criminal, fami...
Bendigo Indigenous Homework Centre (BIHC)
Bendigo Indigenous Homework Centre (BIHC) was set up in 2008 as a joint initiative by the Bend...
Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation
Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation is a community controlled regional health service prov...
Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi
Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi Aboriginal Corporation is a community-based organisation, working w...
Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service was established to provide culturally appropriat...
IGD Newsletter - 2nd Edition
The second Indigenous Governance of Development collaborative research project newsletter is n...
IGD Newsletter - 1st Edition
Read our first Indigenous Governance of Development collaborative research project newsletter...
Exceptional Governance: Stories of Success from the 2018 Indigenous Governance Awards
The Australian Indigenous Governance Institute reviews the nine 2018 Indigenous Governance Awa...
Summary - Webinar: International Resilience through COVID
AIGI held a webinar on Wednesday 10th June with Guest speakers Linda Smith and Megan Hill...
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Summary - Webinar: Governing through Crisis
AIGI held a webinar on Wednesday 13th May with Guest speakers Sarah Brown ( CEO, Purple Hous...
OUR PEOPLE, OUR WAY: STORIES OF INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE SUCCESS
A new AIGI publication presents real world stories of governance co-authored with six finalist...
International Indigenous Governance Conference
The Australian Indigenous Governance Institute will co-convene the inaugural International Ind...
To be heard and for the words to have actions: Traditional Owner voices report.
Traditional Owner voices: improving government relationships and supporting strong foundations...
Nation Building and Development
As an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leader put it, “Australian governments may not s...
Indigenous Community Governance Project
The Indigenous Community Governance Project (ICG) was conducted through a partnership between...
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Lilly Graham is a proud Quandamooka and Bigambul woman Lilly is a former Youth Director on the board of the Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation where she represented the youth of the Bigambul community by ensuring their voice...
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Annie is a 27-year-old Te Atawa and Ngati Mutunga woman She has grown up in the area where her Lwi are from in Wellington, which has shaped the types of work, and research she pursues Annie is a lecturer at the Victoria University of...
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John is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Policy Associate of the Aboriginal Policy R...
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Desi is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne tribe from Montana, USA She is pursuing dual PhDs in sociology at the University of Arizona and demography at the University of Waikato in New Zealand Her doctoral research focuses on the cou...
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Stephanie is an Ahtna Athabascan woman from Alaska, USA She is based at the University of Arizona where she is Assistant Research Professor, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy; Associate Director and Manager, Tribal Health Prog...
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Ray is a National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellow and Research Fellow with the Epidemiology for Policy and Practice group at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National U...
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Tahu belongs to the Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto and Te Aupouri tribes and is Professor of Demography at the Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato Tahu specialises in Māori and indigenous demographic rese...
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Maui is affiliated to Ngāruahine, Te Mahurehure and Whakatōhea and is currently a member of the Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board Maui is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato...
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June Oscar Ao
Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
June is a proud Bunuba woman from the remote town of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia’s Kimberly region She is a strong advocate for Indigenous Australian languages, social justice, women’s issues, and has worked tirelessly t...