Environment Victoria is located on the land of the Kulin Nation and works on country belonging to many Aboriginal nations. We pay our respects to First Nations Elders past, present, and emerging, and recognise their continuing contribution to caring for country. We acknowledge that their sovereignty has never been ceded.
We recognise our responsibility to use our power and our privilege to support Traditional Owners achieve land justice, address inequality and build power to make decisions about country and culture. We are committed through our 2017-22 strategy to finding opportunities to work with Traditional Owners, communities and representative bodies to achieve shared environmental outcomes and justice for First Nations people.
Each year we will update this First Nations Solidarity Plan with our priority actions for the next year, publish it online and report on our progress in meeting commitments of the previous year. We will include this plan in the organisation’s Annual Plan and reporting cycle.
We welcome feedback on this plan from First Nations people and their allies – please contact c.warambourg@environmentvictoria.org.au or h.sestokas@environmentvictoria.org.au.
1. Backing First Nations independence, movements, organisations and power. We will:
2. Delivering shared environmental and social justice outcomes. We will:
3. Taking steps towards becoming a more inclusive organisation and movement, and supporting self-determination of First Nations people. We will: