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Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
The Kailis Room and Online:
Start Date
8-7-2026 12:30 PM
End Date
8-7-2026 1:30 PM
Description
This is an interactive session that puts into practice the methods of Wiyi Yani U Thangani, meaning women's voices in Bunuba. The session opens with a soundscape immersing the audience in the sounds of Country. The lecture will then present the journey of Wiyi Yani U Thangani so far, as a groundbreaking national engagement devised by June Oscar AO, the first woman to be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. Throughout 2018, June and her team met with more than 2000 First Nations women and girls across the continent, the largest national engagement of its kind in over 30 years.
Drawing on what was heard in these engagements, the lecture discusses the need for systems change, explores the Ways of Working that have been developed by thousands of First Nations women and girls (inclusive of transwomen and Sistergirls), and introduces the emerging peacebuilding methodology now taking shape on Bunuba Country at Muraga Village. This is a First Nations women-led approach to navigating conflict, healing from structural injustice, and reweaving the social fabric. It offers tools and pathways for all of us, Indigenous and non- Indigenous, doing the work of truth-telling and systems change.
Recommended Citation
Oscar AO, June; Pedersen, Jane; Reid, Terri; and Harnett, Rebecca, "Wiyi Yani U Thangani: Women's voices, a national movement and a commitment to peacebuilding" (2026). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 10.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2026/Schedule/10
Wiyi Yani U Thangani: Women's voices, a national movement and a commitment to peacebuilding
The Kailis Room and Online:
This is an interactive session that puts into practice the methods of Wiyi Yani U Thangani, meaning women's voices in Bunuba. The session opens with a soundscape immersing the audience in the sounds of Country. The lecture will then present the journey of Wiyi Yani U Thangani so far, as a groundbreaking national engagement devised by June Oscar AO, the first woman to be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. Throughout 2018, June and her team met with more than 2000 First Nations women and girls across the continent, the largest national engagement of its kind in over 30 years.
Drawing on what was heard in these engagements, the lecture discusses the need for systems change, explores the Ways of Working that have been developed by thousands of First Nations women and girls (inclusive of transwomen and Sistergirls), and introduces the emerging peacebuilding methodology now taking shape on Bunuba Country at Muraga Village. This is a First Nations women-led approach to navigating conflict, healing from structural injustice, and reweaving the social fabric. It offers tools and pathways for all of us, Indigenous and non- Indigenous, doing the work of truth-telling and systems change.
