Advocacy

2024

Letter to John Pesutto, Leader of the Opposition, Victorian Liberal Party

2023

Poster of the Community Forums held in Mt Eliza in July 2023

Poster of the Community Forums held in Rosebud in September 2023

Media Release September 2023

In 2022-23 SWAN members facilitated various activities to raise community awareness about the urgent need for constitutional reform to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. This included hosting two public forums to help constituents make an informed decision when they voted in the Referendum. Guest speakers were proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer, activist and storyteller, Teela Reid, and former Liberal Party politician and ACT Chief Minister, Kate Carnell.

YouTube videos of Voice Referendum Forums facilitated by SWAN

SWAN Voice forum with Kate Carnell

SWAN Voice forum Mount Eliza July 2023

2022

Report to AGM 2021-2022

Position paper Indigenous Voice to Parliament_June 2022 

Letter to Mornington Penninsula Shire re change to 26 January activities

Letter to Mornington Penninsula Shire re Reconciliation Action Plan Responsibility

2021

Report to AGM 2020- 2021

Letter to PM and Minister Wyatt and others re Referendum on a Voice to Parliament

Letter to Victorian Government re Youth Justice

Truth Telling

Inspired by the work of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission, in 2020-21 SWAN’s Supporting First Nations group developed an information resource that drew on historical and contemporary sources, and current discussions with local Aboriginal people. Topics included: colonisation, dispossession, injustice against First Nations women, protection of cultural heritage and the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Truth-Telling Resource Section 1

Truth-Telling Resource Section 2

Truth-Telling Resource Section 3

Truth-Telling Resource Section 4