The First Peoples Disability Network: Yarning Disability Podcast
Stories of First Nations peoples living with a disability to highlight the lived experiences of First Nations people with a disability in Australia.
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Torres Strait Islanders
Torres Strait soldiers stage stay at home strikes, 1943
Torres Strait Islander soldiers strike to end discrimination in the army during World War Two.
Torres Strait Islanders hold maritime strike against pearling industry, 1936
Torres Strait Islanders refused work in the Native Affairs pearling fleet due to racial discrimination and held a maritime strike in 1936.
The Building Power Guide
The Building Power guide is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who want to change the world. It includes several training resources to build capacity for campaigning, such as explorations of change-making, power, strategy and leadership development.
Introduction to Original Power: Building the power of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Original Power is a small community-focused organisation that aims to build the power of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through collective action. This pitch as part of the Australian Progress Fellowship provides an introduction to the Original Power project and the context it operates in.
Campaigning to Solve Our Issues
This is an introduction to campaigning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Campaigning involves activating, mobilising, and organising people to make change and influence others to make change. This is an excerpt from Building Power: A Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Who Want to Change the World.
Making a Positive Change: Training guide
This is a training process guide to identify local stories, people, experiences, values, skills and knowledge that have made a contribution to positive change in the local community. It is an excerpt from Building Power: A Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Who Want to Change the World.
Naming the issues: A training guide
This is a training process guide to provide people with space to start focussing in on one of the issues that may be among many they are dealing with in their community or context. This process is also about starting to think about problems and solutions. It is an excerpt from Building Power: A Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Who Want to Change the World.
What makes a good leader for social change?
A training process guide to provide a space for people to think about the role and qualities of leaders in social change. Leaders for social change model the way; inspire a shared vision; challenge the process; enable others to act; and encourage the heart.
Key Ingredients for Building the Power of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities
This article outlines key ingredients for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to consider in relation to mining and resource proponents and projects. These ingredients come from interviews, discussion and campaigning with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples impacted by the mining industry.
Cyclone Warning A training guide for solving problems
This is a training process guide to explore different approaches to solving community problems, investigate how different problems require different approaches to change to solve them, clarify the differences between community organising, community development, advocacy and service delivery.
Community Resistance Timeline: A training guide
This is a training process guide to introduce participants to each other, connect their own history to a larger history of social change, identify local tactics, and to rethink what success looks like. It is an excerpt from Building Power: A Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Who Want to Change the World.