Some key highlights from the National Summit 2023 include: 

• Day one started with a Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country by Uncle Moogy Sumner and Isaac Hannam. 

• The Honourable Amanda Rishworth committed to ongoing partnerships with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations.  

• The Honourable Minister Katrine Hildyard and The Honourable Minister Nat Cook committed to a lock in of 30% of current funding to be allocated to the SA ACCOs. 

• Minister Hildyard shared that the South Australian Child Protection Act is being reviewed and declared that a new legislation will be introduced into parliament this year. 

• Commissioner for First Nations Voice Dale Agius walked us through South Australia’s journey to become the first jurisdiction in the country to set up an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. 

• SNAICC discussed their Stronger ACCO’s, Stronger Families – an initiative identifying the strengths, opportunities, needs and barriers of Aboriginal community-controlled organisations (ACCOs) in delivering Commonwealth-funded child and family services.    

• eSafety Commission introduced Be Deadly Online – sharing a statistic that in 2015 Domestic and Family Violence frontline workers said 98% of their clients experienced technology-facilitated abuse. 

• No To Violence introduced their Southern Cross Model and discussed Yarning Two Ways initiative – a collaborative dialogue which supports, listens and holds men accountable for their use of family violence.  

• Stan Grant joined us, speaking about race and shared the term ‘racecraft’ coined by Barbara and Karen Fields. Stan raised their notion that racism creates race, race doesn’t exist until the racist idea creates race.