Join this Women's Climate Congress yarn exploring the many ways First Nations women are leading change through culture, community, governance and Country.

Explore the profound, spiritual connection between Indigenous identity, language, and ancestral lands.

Emphasizing the urgent climate threats facing frontline communities, particularly the Torres Strait Islands, advocating for community-led solutions, truth-telling, and collective healing.

"To tell someone who is inherently spiritually, culturally and through identity and through everything in the world is connected to something that you've got to detach from traumatic. Ours is a slow, traumatic burn." – Barbara Ebuai

Passionate, deeply personal, and urgent, underscoring the universal human responsibility to protect our shared planet through Indigenous wisdom and collaborative action.

Co-hosted and facilitated by Janet Salisbury, Founder of Women's Climate Congress, and Celeste Ackerly, Trawlwoolway woman, conservation and First Nations governance and engagement practitioner, this webinar brings together remarkable First Nations women whose leadership reflects the strength, resilience, and responsibility carried by women across generations.
 

Conversationalists:

 Polly Cutmore – Gamilaroi/Wiri/Anaiwan Elder, Traditional Owner and nationally respected advocate for Aboriginal water rights and cultural governance.

 Sandra Woosup – Angkamuthi Traditional Owner, Chairperson, language keeper and community leader dedicated to strengthening culture, language and women-led leadership on Country.

 Barbara Ibuai –   a Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) climate advocate, Saibai Koedal woman, and founder of Climate Collective Zenadth Kes (CCZK) – a civil society response to climate adaptation in her region.

Earth Matters #1576  was produced by Bec Horridge in collaboration with the Women’s Climate Congress