Making First Nations women safe and strong

In this lecture Antoinette Braybrook discusses how women can be supported now while reducing the rates of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. She addresses the systematic denial of rights in the constant battle with governments, and explains why self-determination is more important now than ever. 

Antoinette Braybrook is an Aboriginal woman who was born on Wurundjeri country. Her grandfather and mother’s line is through the Kuku Yalanji. Antoinette is the CEO of Djirra, a position she has held since the service was established seventeen years ago. Djirra is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organization which provides holistic, culturally safe and specialist legal and non-legal support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience family violence – predominantly women.