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, the decades of work by our community for recognition and self-determination, 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 First Nations 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 Indigenous and non-Indigenous 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 First Nations cultures.
We are inspired to be ambitious and optimistic by the Invincible Spirit of our ancestors, the decades of work by our community for recognition and self-determination, 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 First Nations 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 Indigenous and non-Indigenous 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 First Nations cultures.
Our projects
We are one of the founders of the Empowered Communities initiative and within that place-based framework, have been working with our partners on an ambitious agenda for change for the region with current projects including:
- Goulburn Murray Regional Prosperity and Productivity Plan
- Algabonyah Research and Impact Centre
- Dungala Kaiela Oration
- Algabonyah Regional Governance and Community Voices
GOULBURN MURRAY REGIONAL PROSPERITY and PRODUCTIVITY 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.
"In Shepparton we have been relentless in our desire to make radical changes to extreme disadvantage."
