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Article: Growing Future Leaders

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Growing Future Leaders

Growing Future Leaders

The Youth Service brought together 10 young women from five remote communities: Finke, Imanpa, Mutitjulu, Docker River and Kiwirrkurra, for an important growth opportunity at the Michael Long Learning and Leadership Academy in Darwin.

With funding from the Foundation for Young Australians Youth Action and Wellbeing Grant, the Youth Service worked with schools and senior community members to select young women to attend. They were supported by Youth’s Anangu Support Workers to travel to Mparntwe then fly to Darwin, ready to step into a week designed to build leadership, confidence and connection.

Throughout the Indigenous Leadership Program, the young women took part in hands-on activities, team challenges and cultural exchanges that pushed them outside their comfort zones - in the best way possible. They tried new things, developed their leadership skills and discovered how much they are capable of achieving.

By the end of the week, the change was visible: the participants had stronger voices, more confidence, and a growing sense of what leadership can look like in their own communities. This program was another step in supporting the next generation of Anangu leaders.

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Elevating Anangu Voices in the SA Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence

When South Australia announced a Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence, NPYWC knew we had to work hard to make sure the voices of Anangu women and men were heard in this enquiry. As the only specialist domestic and family violence service operating across the tri-state NPY region, we are uniquely placed to platform Anangu voices.

As a result of our advocacy and two written submissions, Commissioner Natasha Stott-Despoja decided to fly to Mparntwe specifically to meet with NPYWC directors and members, and the men of the primary prevention Uti Kulintjaku Watiku project.

The Watiku men shared stories about the work they do in their own communities to help young men grow up strong and care for their families.

The directors and members talked about the unique challenges facing Anangu women who are responding to and resisting domestic and family violence on the APY lands. This includes:

  • Difficulties created by the three different administrative systems across the tri-state region in which Anangu live and travel - the borders have a big impact on the justice system but to Anangu those borders do not exist
  • Challenges created by remoteness, with no safe houses for women or men on the lands and police sometimes many hundreds of kilometres away
  • The need for support for men who use violence, and for young parents to help them break the cycle of violence

NPYWC also spoke powerfully about how they draw on the strengths of Anangu culture to resist and heal from domestic and family violence. Our members shared stories of how traditional ways of living kept families safe, and how taking young people out on country to reconnect with language, culture and kin can build strong families for the future.

One of our directors emphasised that any solution to domestic violence needs to be grounded in Anangu tjukurpa.

The Commissioner was visibly moved by NPYWC’s testimony. The final report of the Royal Commission quoted NPYWC multiple times and made several recommendations specific to the APY lands, such as supported accommodation for both men and women and increased investment in programs for men. NPYWC calls on the South Australian government to act on these recommendations and work with us to increase the safety of Anangu women and children.

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Tjukurpa Nganampa Wanantjaku: An Empowering New Research Model

Tjukurpa Nganampa Wanantjaku: An Empowering New Research Model

Tjukurpa Nganampa Wanantjaku (Follow Our Story) is a guide for researchers working with Anangu in the NPY Lands. With funding support provided by Primary Health Network for the Northern Territory and co-created with our Directors, it is intended as a best practice guide to working alongside Anangu and NPY Women’s Council in the NPY lands.

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NPY Women's Council is grounded in, and continues to live and work on, the sovereign Lands of the Arrernte people, and the Aṉangu and Yarnangu people - the rightful custodians of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara lands.