- To be an ally you must be willing to listen, truly listen. As an ally I will challenge everything you think you know about Indigenous people. Whether consciously aware of a bias or not, you must be willing to be brutally honest about your individual perception and relationship towards Indigenous people
- Everything we do is about building and maintaining our legacy. Our youth are the next generation of game changers and as a result, they are aware of their responsibility to uphold and maintain the ancestral fires of our Ancestors. We are running out of time. Our people are dying at astronomical rates. What our youth are realising is that to impact the mainstream sector, to challenge the grand narrative and to help build upon our legacy you must get your qualifications. This education helps to shift the paradigm and create the opportunity to not only obliterate archaic narratives but also help platform the voices of our people.
- There's still an insurmountable amount of mysticism and tokenism surrounding Indigenous people and culture. A lot of it stems from misinformation and misconstrued, or rather ignorant ideas about what Indigenous culture and people represent. Aboriginal people are not here to be your token Indigenous friend or colleague. We are human beings and should not have to justify or plead for our own humanity. We are not here to do the emotional labor for you. We are not here to challenge and deconstruct your ignorance only to have you revert to your privilege and rage with your old fears and prejudices. We do not exist to cater towards your own fragility or the micro aggression you uphold to exclude and separate Indigenous people, or people of colour, from the mainstream narrative and conversation.
- Your awareness to our truth will help shift the perspective lens and change the landscape. Only through education and awareness will you be able to deconstruct this elitism and power for yourself and within the wider community.
To be an ally is to learn to stand beside me, not in front of me. - I see an empowered and unapologetic activism that helps to raise the collective consciousness. We are not that different from our predecessors and are only building upon their activism. It's imperative we maintain the resistance and are aware of our responsibility to never allow a level of complacency to manifest in our ongoing fight for equality, justice and truth. We cannot afford to settle because the next generation is watching
- We're asking to deconstruct the system that exists. We're asking to be invited to the table. I don't know how you bridge the gap in terms of Aboriginal people who are still struggling to have a voice.
- We have never ceded sovereignty. I'm tired of asking for our humanity.
- We are the sovereign owners of this country.
- When do Indigenous people get social, cultural and economic empowerment and voice in parliament?
- Is this the sign of a leader who sincerely wants to close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage or holding his colonial foothold on the throat of the oppressed Indigenous population, which has been the case for 230 years.
- It's about celebrating other women, honouring their strength and their legacy. For us, because we come from a matriarchal culture, its always been about elevating, honouring and respecting our women and what they've paved the way for in terms of what I've been able to be a benefactor of.
- Often we are talking about the negatives, or what's not working. Well look at what is working and how do we support and encourage and instil those members of the community, whether grassroots organisations, community members or corporate sectors who are doing some amazing work.
- Neighbours has not fostered a "fully inclusive" environment because if it did, we wouldn't be having these conversations and multiple situations occur in the past and present days of filming.
- It will hopefully encourage others to speak up and out in confidence without fear of repercussions.
- It's no longer [about] protecting individuals or a workplace environment or a production house that has various levels of complicity and [continues to allow] unhealthy, toxic workplace conduct that would just not be tolerated anywhere outside the film industry.
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