Unpacking Colonial Assumptions fact sheet

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Created to support our annual CultureShift session on colonial assumptions in not-for-profits, for-purpose organisations and progressive movements.

We often hear people talking about working in decolonising ways — but what does that mean in practice? How does settler privilege and the assumptions of white Western business concepts shape how our organisations are structured and operate? How might we change that?

The factsheet was drafted by grassroots activist and storyteller Jill Faulkner and intertwine staff-member Ulysses Thomas. Jill was born in Aotearoa, and has lived on the lands of the First Nations peoples of Australia longer than she has lived on the country of her grandfather. She is a descendant of the Ngati Te Whiti hapu of the Ati Awa iwi. Ulysses Thomas is a queer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person from the Bwgcolman community on Palm Island who also grew up on the lands of the Bindal and Wulgurukaba people. Illustrations are by Nakia Cadd, a Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Bunitj, Boon Wurrung, Taungurung woman who grew up in the Northern suburbs of Naarm.