2021 Dungala Kaiela Oration: JOSEPHINE SUKKAR AM
The Kaiela Institute, in association with the University of Melbourne, was delighted to present the 2021 keynote speaker for the 13th annual Dungala Kaiela Oration, Josephine Sukkar AM.
Josephine Sukkar AM is Chair of the Australian Sports Commission, co-founder and principal of construction company Buildcorp, and president of Australian Women’s Rugby.
Ms Sukkar’s oration talked to the undeniable power within the infrastructure of sport in Australia to harness and channel the passion of the Australian people. She highlighted the willingness and ability within sporting infrastructure to tackle the insidious issue of institutional racism and to be a critical cornerstone in creating a healthy, vibrant nation to which we can all be proud to contribute. And one in which we can all be winners.
The 13th annual oration premiered online on September 29th, 2021 and is now availble from YouTube by clicking on the tile above.
Josephine Sukkar AM is Chair of the Australian Sports Commission, co-founder and principal of construction company Buildcorp, and president of Australian Women’s Rugby.
Ms Sukkar’s oration talked to the undeniable power within the infrastructure of sport in Australia to harness and channel the passion of the Australian people. She highlighted the willingness and ability within sporting infrastructure to tackle the insidious issue of institutional racism and to be a critical cornerstone in creating a healthy, vibrant nation to which we can all be proud to contribute. And one in which we can all be winners.
The 13th annual oration premiered online on September 29th, 2021 and is now availble from YouTube by clicking on the tile above.
Welcome to the Kaiela Institute
The Kaiela Institute has been established as a First Nations-led analysis and policy think tank. We provide a place and a process to encourage and support our leaders and institutions to collaborate, and take a more strategic approach to building the future of our Goulburn Murray community.
We are inspired to be ambitious and optimistic by the Invincible Spirit of our ancestors and the emergence of our talented young leadership group on their respectful rights-based approach to a shared prosperous future.
We give our community the opportunity to focus on the critical levers for investment in the design of our future.
This is a response by Aboriginal people across the Goulburn Murray indicating, like the statistics do, that our sustainable future is under threat. Mental health is the overriding issue when you have lived in a pressure cooker of cultural oppression and generational patterns of abuse.
The Kaiela Institute is an investment organisation that supports leadership to question, re-think and act. We support the collaboration of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal leadership to envision, design and implement an inclusive future for all people in the Goulburn Murray region of Victoria. We are at the forefront of policy analysis and innovative solutions, focused on regional development, prosperity and sustainability of Aboriginal culture.
We are inspired to be ambitious and optimistic by the Invincible Spirit of our ancestors and the emergence of our talented young leadership group on their respectful rights-based approach to a shared prosperous future.
We give our community the opportunity to focus on the critical levers for investment in the design of our future.
This is a response by Aboriginal people across the Goulburn Murray indicating, like the statistics do, that our sustainable future is under threat. Mental health is the overriding issue when you have lived in a pressure cooker of cultural oppression and generational patterns of abuse.
The Kaiela Institute is an investment organisation that supports leadership to question, re-think and act. We support the collaboration of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal leadership to envision, design and implement an inclusive future for all people in the Goulburn Murray region of Victoria. We are at the forefront of policy analysis and innovative solutions, focused on regional development, prosperity and sustainability of Aboriginal culture.
GOULBURN MURRAY REGIONAL PROSPERITY PLAN
The Goulburn Murray Regional Prosperity Plan has a vision to build a thriving First Nations economy that will generate new income, opportunities and shared prosperity for the benefit of everyone in the region. Both the First Nations and the broader regional communities have guided this new, nation-leading approach, which was designed from the ground up: in the region, by the region, for the region. We take a new and positive investment-based approach for generating and sharing prosperity and value.
Our projects
We are one of the founders of the Empowered Communities initiative and within that place-based framework, have been working on an ambitious agenda for change for the region with current projects including:
- Algabonyah Regional Governance and Voices
- Goulburn Murray Regional Prosperity Plan
- Algabonyah Business Development Unit
- Algabonyah Data and Research Unit
- Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence
- Dungala Kaiela Oration
"In Shepparton we have been relentless in our desire to make radical changes to extreme disadvantage."
