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 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 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 support the first nations Voice to parliament
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Informed by the Invincible Spirit of our ancestors, and the decades of work by our community for the recognition and self-determination of First Peoples, the Kaiela Institute supports the Voice to Parliament. The Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Australian Constitution is not the end point for us – it is another step in the long journey of Australian society to systemically recognise and include Yorta Yorta and other First Nations people.
The strength of the National Voice depends on the strength of local Voices like ours, to set the agenda, to guide and hold the National body to account. We look forward to rigorous discussion and honest conversations about what this means for our community, our families, our lives here in the Goulburn Murray. We support the self-determination of First Nations peoples - to make informed decisions and have a say in the laws and policies that impact our daily lives, for our shared future. |
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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:
- Algabonyah Regional Governance and Voices
- Goulburn Murray Regional Prosperity Plan
- Algabonyah Business Development Program
- Algabonyah Data and Research Sovereignty
- Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence
- Dungala Kaiela Oration
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.
"In Shepparton we have been relentless in our desire to make radical changes to extreme disadvantage."
